canning

Beginning to Dig In Again

01.03.2012 Garden Planning

Today is the coldest day we have had in NYC this winter, and we are gardening. . . OK, we’re not actually gardening. We are sitting in our flannels, warm and cozy, perusing seed catalogs and planning the garden. We just wanted to take a moment to say Happy New Year and we look forward [...]

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Saving The Season

09.19.2011 Canning, Drying, and Preserving
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We hear so much information about eating local and seasonal food and until you really invest in what that means it may sound like the fashion police are coming to put your dinner on the worst dressed list in tomorrow’s rag. Here’s the deal, nature wins. You can either take advantage of things when they [...]

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Just Peachy

09.06.2011 Canning, Drying, and Preserving
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If you read yesterdays post then you know we went to the farmers market and had a lovely day. One of our goals was to find some delicious fruit and try our hand at jam. We don’t eat a whole lot of fruit preserves in this house; but, when the idea of saving seasonal local fruit [...]

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Mr. Babies’ First Canning- Part 3

08.24.2011 Canning, Drying, and Preserving
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If you’ve been following our canning adventures you know that it hasn’t all just fallen into place. WT did his last away gig for the summer season last week and when he returned there was a counter full of tomatoes and boxes of canning tools. Now we just needed to make sauce and can it. [...]

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Mr. Babies’ First Canning- Part 2

08.16.2011 Canning, Drying, and Preserving
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OK. We ran into one major problem. If you read part one you know that we had our heart set on procuring a pressure canner and setting forth on our canning adventures. It turned out that no kitchen stores in NYC selling pressure canners are open weekends. There were endless displays of water bath canners and [...]

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Mr. Babies’ First Canning- Part 1

08.13.2011 Canning, Drying, and Preserving
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So we are up to our ears with Basil and tomatoes. It is clear that we need to save some for the winter, but we have never canned anything before. We wanted to bring you into our process. What do we need to buy? First we read this about canning. We don’t love jam, and [...]

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