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Post by steiny on Aug 13, 2012 19:49:34 GMT -5
We just canned a couple batches of tomatoes. Hope to do some beans this weekend.
We hadn't messed around with any canning for probably 20 years, pretty darned easy. Have gotten back into gardening and putting up food this year, having fun with it plus getting some real good eats out of the deal.
Also vac sealed and froze a bunch of good sweet corn and beans too. Three or four deer, a bunch of crappie, bluegill & salmon, plus all of this garden stuff make for some good year round eating.
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Post by featherduster on Aug 14, 2012 6:22:56 GMT -5
Before I built the home I live in now I had a garden at my old home and canned a lot, living in a woods is not a good place to grow a garden.
The wife and I now buy veggies from local farms and freeze them except for tomatoes.
I too keep the freezer door hinges oiled because we eat a lot of wild game such as fish,deer, ducks and geese,turkey,doves,pheasant and of course wild mushrooms and berries.
I have this personal rule that we will eat up all of last years game before we start this years seasons.
It bothers me when I read or speak to folks that tell me they have wild game in their freezers that has been in there for years.
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Post by dadfsr on Aug 14, 2012 7:27:43 GMT -5
Getting ready to can up a "few" quarts of tomato juice. My wife has an attachment for the Kitchen Aid that she runs the tomatoes thru-juice/pulp out the bottom and seeds/skins out the other end. Have about 5 gal of juice now that we're cooking down a little bit more and adding some seasonings too.
We may have a bumper crop of carrots so I'm sure we'll be putting up some of those also.
We do freeze quite also. Nothing like vacuum packed sugar snap peas or asparagus when the snow is flying to make you appreciate all the work in the garden. We've also vac'd fresh green beans that have been blanched, then added some chopped up onion along with some crumbled up fried bacon-something real quick that can tossed in the 'wave and makes for an excellent veg addition to about any meal.
Now if we could just get around to bottling up some of those carboys of wine (concord and elderberry) that we have going in the basement.....
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Post by duff on Aug 18, 2012 5:05:13 GMT -5
I didn't can anything this year yet and it doesn't look good. My sweet corn didn't do worth a hoot, had about a bushel of beans that didn't turn out very good so I pitched them. We are now eating tomatoes but not enough to freeze or can. Been a rough year in our garden. Last year I canned about 20 qts of green beans and about 7 pnts of pickled jalapenos w/mixed veggies in them for stews and roasts. Was wanting to do some more this year....but won't likely happen.
Try canning some deer meat. I canned goose meat about 8-9 years ago and it was awesome. I browned it in a skillet then pressure cooked it. Turned out awesome. Just need to heat it up and enjoy. Comes out fork tender and made great pot pies/BBQ/or by itself.
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Post by tobias on Aug 18, 2012 7:13:09 GMT -5
Duff,
Can you give a little more info on your canned goose? I just bought a pressure cooker/canner and have been canning some garden stuff, but want to try some meat this winter. Sounds like a great way to use up some geese.
Thanks
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Post by duff on Aug 18, 2012 20:02:52 GMT -5
It's been too long for me to recall too much other than I cubed and browned the meat then canned it. I do recall putting some bullion cubes in there and mixing in some hot peppers in a few jars. Other than that I just followed the directions in a canning book for canning meat. They put a lot of warnings on canning meat so read carefully and proceed at your own risk. I figured I would be fine as long as the cans were sealed and not funk growing in them. I will say the initial look of the meat in glass jars is a bit unsettling but once you taste it.....yum!
My hunting buddies loved it and many of my family members really liked it as well. Very good way to use up some of those geese without messing with freezer burn.
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