Comments on: small measures with ashley: home canning

By: CallieMo

CallieMo — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:41:43 +0000

I’ve been canning for about 14 years now. I started out with making salsa (which has become something that friends start asking me about when tomatoes are in season). Last year my husband and I bought our first CSA share (share of a farm’s produce for a season) and when we started being swamped with produce, I broke out the cookbooks and started making jams, caponata, pickled eggplant, cucumber pickles and pickled cabbage as well as more kinds of salsa. We’ve got a share again this year and I tried several pickled green/yellow bean recipes as well for the first time. Nothing beats taking a jar of something you’ve preserved off the shelf in the dead of winter when store veggies taste like cardboard and enjoying a blast of summer again.

Two books that I’ve found totally useful are the hardcover Ball canning cookbook and a book called “The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving: Over 300 Recipes to Use Year-Round.” Both have tons of really great recipes but the second is nice when you don’t have super large amounts of a given thing.

By: ashley english

ashley english — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:13:58 +0000

serene-amazon.com does international shipping, but not on all items; check out their canning store to see what items are shippable to singapore: http://www.amazon.com/Canning-Kitchen-Dining/b/ref=amb_link_83615591_3?ie=UTF8&node=1265175011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=top-2&pf_rd_r=0D85VN7009AD5SRK6GKY&pf_rd_t=301&pf_rd_p=472084951&pf_rd_i=home%20canning

since so many of you asked, here’s the link for scoring the wooden bath mat yourselves: http://www.target.com/Hexagon-Wood-Bath-Mat-Brown/dp/B001FXN8NM/sr=1-1/qid=1251749566/ref=sr_1_1/177-1875811-3760803?ie=UTF8&search-alias=tgt-index&frombrowse=0&rh=k%3Awood%20bath%20mat&page=1

By: serene

serene — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:01:25 +0000

i would love canning too.. unfortunately i can’t get canning jars where i am (Singapore). any ideas on how else i could do it pls?

By: johan

johan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:19:15 +0000

Canning (well, pickling) is something I’ve been meaning to look into, but more pressingly:

Where are those wooden placemats from?

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:11:39 +0000

Oh this is so great! I just inherited a canning pot from my Mom and have been dreaming of canning but didn’t know where to start!

By: ashley english

ashley english — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:41:18 +0000

Ita-There are a number of really great pressure canners out there. Here’s a link to Amazon; see what fits your budget and just how large of a canner you think you might need: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=pressure+canner&x=0&y=0 (I have an All-American by Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry and LOVE it, although my puppy does bark out it when it jiggles!).