Canning

Brassicas and Root Vegetables for the Community Canning Challenge – Food in Jars

Metal bowl holding shredded green cabbage

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Hello friends! This post is here to help give you some ideas about how you might participate in this month’s Brassicas and Root Vegetables Community Canning Challenge. If you missed the introductory post last week, you can find it here. Sign up to participate using this form, and join me over at Substack (all challenge related posts will be entirely free) or our Facebook group for topic discussions. On the food preservation side of the Community Canning Challenge this month, we are focusing on brassicas and root vegetables. These storage friendly crops are widely available in the northern hemisphere this … Read more

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Brassicas / Canning / Challenge / Community / Food / Jars / Root / Vegetables

The Community Canning Challenge – Food in Jars

Red currants in a yellow enamel colander.

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Hello friends! It has been a VERY long time since I’ve shown my face around these parts. But with the start of the new year, it is time to shake the dust off, pull my brain back together and get back to the business of canning and making connections with all of you. Enter the Community Canning Challenge! Twice in the past, I’ve hosted year-long challenges in which I would present a series of monthly food preservation topics and we’d all work through them together. I’d like to do it again this year, with a bit of a twist. Instead … Read more

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Canning / Challenge / Community / Food / Jars

Three Ingredient Fig Jam for Canning – Food in Jars

Two stacks of jars of fig jam with a blue label that reads 3 ingredient fig jam.

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This three ingredient fig jam is designed for canning and uses just fresh figs, sugar, and lemon juice. It’s bright, flavorful, and so easy to make. If you find yourself awash in figs every year, keep this recipe handy! Hello friends! I realize that it has been an absolute age (more than a year!) since I’ve posted anything new here. I have desperately missed sharing my canning practice with all of you, and while I can’t promise anything like my old regularity, I very much want to show up here more often. So let’s dig back in. I’m kicking my … Read more

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Canning / Fig / Food / Ingredient / Jam / Jars