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Does it Bother You to Eat Rotten Food?

Posted in Preserving (General Articles About it) on November 17, 2011 | 6 Comments »

If you’ve come to this post to simply find the answer to the title, my answer is that yes, sometimes it does. If you’ve come for another reason – specifically to decode why I’d bother asking such a question, perhaps I should take a step back and explain where the idea for this post came [...]

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What’s the Difference Between Mead and Honey Wine (T’ej)?

Posted in Preserving (General Articles About it) on November 8, 2011 | 15 Comments »

Thanks to Chris in the comments I`ve made a few edits – his, and the other comments on this post, are awesome extensions to the post itself and great additions to it – thanks all (and especially Chris for helping with the edits. Imagine entering a room full of rock stars and asking them which [...]

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3 Recipes I Wish I`d Preserved this Summer

Posted in Preserving (General Articles About it) on September 28, 2011 | 12 Comments »

We preserve year-round so this post is not an indication of the end of the year.  It is, however, an admission that I`m running out of time to preserve much of the summer harvest.  We are serving our pickled garlic (more than 600 portions) on Sunday, the following weekend is Canadian Thanksgiving (we`ll be deep [...]

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A Sign That Preserving is Booming

Posted in Preserving (General Articles About it) on September 22, 2011 | 11 Comments »

It was within the last 3 years when the most common question we received on our site was, “where can I buy mason jars?”  It seems so difficult to imagine how recent that was considering we saw a whole lot of this in all sorts of different stores (grocery, hardware, mass retail and more) stores [...]

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The Multiple Problems Around Advice on Preserving Tomato Sauce

Posted in Fundamentals, Preserving (General Articles About it), Tomatoes (Sauce and more) on September 14, 2011 | 31 Comments »

We’ve received multiple questions in the last several days about general safety questions – many of which were about tomato sauce and the issues of adding lemon juice or other acid.  While this post will answer that question (sort-of), it’s important to me to share the context of many answers around safety-type questions that surround [...]

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Preserving Vegetables – Ideas for July

Posted in Preserving (General Articles About it) on July 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

We shared a list of preserving projects for all of July’s awesome fruit yesterday, here’s a starting point for all of the vegetables that are coming this way! Vegetables Green and wax beans – Pressure canning Peas and Greens Beets – Dehydrating beets, making powder, a self-effacing story about pickled beets, an overview on beets, [...]

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Preserving Berries – Kick out the jams…

Posted in Preserving (General Articles About it), tagged on June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

We have 14 or 15 different types of jam in our pantry and I eat toast a few times a year.  We use jam for cheese, in salad dressings, smoothies, cut it with balsamic to make a glaze and more.  But more than a dozen different types of jam is more than enough and I’d [...]

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