For the last three day's I have been completely engulfed in the world that is canning! I have breathed, dreamt, and most importantly consumed canning! Lots of thanks go out to my dear friend Staci for getting my started (again) and always answering my questions! Now this is not to say that I have NEVER done any canning, I have, but there were a lot of firsts for me this week!
I'd heard that canning chicken was easy but WOW, it was amazingly EASY! I had never bottled beans, of any kind, and soup was a first too! I have in the past done strawberry jam, bread in a bottle, tomatoes, pickles, applesauce, and when I was a tween I remember having a canning class in which our amazing teacher turned over grown zucchini into mock apple pie filling and mock pineapple! Yes she was that good!
I on the other hand am still learning the canning world and have to be honest there are a few thing's that I refuse to can!!! The first being store bought veggies... if they didn't grow in my garden I refuse to buy, prepare, and bottle veggies that I can buy already in a nice neat can! This goes for apple sauce too! It was so much work for so little product, and then I didn't want the kids to eat it because it was so much WORK, and then it would be GONE!!!
Which in my mind seems backwards!!! I want to bottle things for my family so that we can eat them, enjoy them, and hopefully so that they will make meal time easier!!! Let's be honest! I don't always have the time or the energy to make a gourmet meal! So if I can walk into the pantry and pull something off the shelf that will help me make a well rounded meal I am all for it!
Join me on my journey! I'll share what I have learned! What I am learning & discovering! Come all who like me wants to make life in the kitchen a little easier, less expensive, and happier!
~Rana
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