Canning

OK it has been awhile....Serj was totally ROCKING!!! We also went to see Flyleaf which was pretty good also...E liked it a lot more than I did but I still really enjoyed it.

The newest thing for me here is CANNING...I know, I know that isn't new, I have done that a lot in the past...BUT this time I used the Pressure Canner I got about 2yrs ago. I thought it was going to be as much work or more work than the canning I have done before but it wasn't. It was so easy to do and pretty fast too. We (my mother and myself) did 15lbs of asparagus yesterday and today I plan to do 12 quarts of beans (dry).

I have known for a long time that if I purchase dry beans in bulk it is much cheaper but I always forget to soak them overnight and/or I start too late to do the quick soak. I realized recently that if I can the beans it is just like I bought canned beans at the store but that they would be in the sizes I really need and it would still be really cheap.

Now I'm totally into the canning thing again. Today I will be posting asking for jars on Freecycle to try and keep the cost of them down a bit not that they are all the badly priced ($9 for quarts and $8 for pints; wide mouths). I will also be watching all the markets closely for really good deals (asparagus was $0.98 lbs) and start canning anything I'm able (well, not meat...that still grosses me out for some reason).