Every week, I cruise the Farm & Garden section in Craigslist to see if there are any edible offerings. In the past I've gotten large amounts of lemons, chestnuts, vegetables, and even chanterelle m...
I've been doing a lot of canning since April, taking advantage of all the seasonal fruits and vegetables and filling my larder. After a large batch of fruit jam-making, I decided I wanted to balance ...
Have you been canning this summer? If you're thinking of gifting any of your delicious homemade goodies, here are some pretty labels to help jazz up your canning jars and let your lucky friends and ...
Curious about canning? Why not get some friends together and host a canning party?! Kim O'Donnel of "Canning Across America" tells us how. Plus, the art of sword swallowing, how cooking played a role ...
Are you canning anything right now? We put up some cherries for Christmas gifts, so we have pretty canning jars on the brain. We love plain old Mason jars and the classic Ball brand, but there are s...
Q: I have been told that its fine to use sterilized jars and put HOT soup in them — then turn them upside down and let them seal themselves. Is this a good method for low risk foods? — ...
Q: How do you can something when you didn't make it specifically from a canning recipe? I make all kinds of soups I would love to can but they're not from a canning recipe book. — Question aske...
Q: I just canned a whole bunch of food for the first time yesterday. Mostly pickles and jam, but I also canned two tomato based things: spicy salsa and crushed tomatoes. I added commercial lemon juice...
Q: Several months after canning strawberry jam, I looked at the jars and the top layer of the jam was brown and smelled and tasted bad. Any idea what I may have done? It was so disappointing! I do t...
Q: I'm curious: is the process for canning meat sauces (with tomatoes, etc. in the jar also) any different from canning vegetarian sauces? From marthag...
Q: Do any of you (or your reader) make homemade ketchup? With the current canning revival (and my surplus of tomatoes) I was hoping to add a great recipe to my cookbooks! Thanks and happy canning! ...
Are you canning or preserving something this summer? Jam? Pickles? Ketchup or BBQ sauce? Do you have questions about recipes, technique, or just how to can tomatoes? Well, this is your chance to ask a...
Tanya Spacek of Lawrence, Kansas sent us these fabulous photos of her past weekends adventures in canning. Can you guess what's in the jars? It's something Southerners might recognize more easily, b...
Q: Help! I made my first foray into making jelly last night, didn't realize I was using low-sugar pectin and added the amount of sugar the recipe called for. The result is a blackberry jelly that is f...
We talked awhile back about having a second freezer in the home. We've always been big believers in owning one, but after our recent move to a smaller space, we ended up putting it in a rather unusu...
A couple weeks ago I attempted canning for the first time in several years. Yes, I've made refrigerator jams and pickles, but I hadn't actually canned anything in quite a while. The process was both...
Q: We're having a bumper crop of tomatoes here in the Northwest this year. In years past we've canned diced tomatoes for use throughout the year, but this year we thought we would like try making and ...
Home cooking is often a somewhat isolated event. We usually cook for ourselves, our family and a handful of friends or colleagues. On occasion, a stranger appears in the mix, but usually they've bee...
You all know that we are semi-crazy about jars in the kitchen. We love to use 'em for storing stuff, serving lemonade, and canning our own jam. They are quiet and practical Good Things. Well, we are d...
Strawberries have been in the San Francisco farmer's markets for a month now, and I have been busy buying them up and making jams! I bought enough strawberries for three batches of jam, so after maki...
I plan on doing a lot of 'putting up' this year, especially after my fun and successful tomato canning adventure of 2008, which led to award-winning results (at least among my friends.) And although ...
Interesting. What our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers often saw as drudgery and a whole lot of messy work is now becoming an incredibly popular trend among this generation's new homesteaders. It...
It's not really news that canning fruits and vegetables is on the rise. We've talked about preserving and pickling here and here and here. But The New York Times Dining section has some more encourage...
One of the best ways to eat locally year round is to preserve the bounty when it's in season. Once upon a time these skills were common knowledge for every homemaker, but for most people the last sev...
In today's shaky economic times combined with a movement to eat more sustainably, we're turning more to DIY food-related projects. From making our own bacon to building root cellars, we're learning h...
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