Trudy

I don't know if all Fred's have the same sale or not, but ours has reg. mouth pint and quart jars for $4 a dz. and wide mouths for 4.50. Lids for .75. All other canning supplies were 25% off.

I printed mine out and couldn't figure the numbering either. So I used my scrapbooking paper cutter to slice each page in half. Then stacked pages in numerical order, and put a staple (diagonally) on the top left corner. Works for me! I'm trying the Chicken Enchilada Casserole tonight!

I know you are going to like the soup mix Peaceful. I decided to mix mine up while I was cleaning the kitchen tonight. (I did add some Tones freeze dried dried mushrooms to my mix.) It looked so good I decided to try it out. It tasted good but was a little thick to eat for soup, so I thinned it with about 1/4 cup of milk and 1/4 cup of chicken broth.( I had just boiled a chicken for a casserole for tomorrow.) It made the best soup! Now I will have to freeze the broth in 1/4 c cubes to have on hand for my favorite new soup!!

 

 

Great news!

Happy Birthday ANewMe!

http://extension.usu...g_2011-02pr.pdf Take a look at this neat little printable booklet. I know some of you use this cream of 'whatever' soup mix, so I think you will enjoy this info! Here is another link (http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/2012/03/soup-or-sauce-sos-mix.html ) with a little more info!

99% of the time I'm a 'scraper'!

X 2!!

 

 

Happy Birthday To You...

I decided to reprocess using BBB time of 10 mins. I wouldn't have been able to sleep tonight worrying that my juice was underprocessed! 5 beautiful quarts of blueberry juice and 2 of peach. I think I'm in love with my new steam juicer! This is one purchase you would never regret!

Violet, Do you spray your pan with Pam or just use a nonstick skillet?

I finally got my juicer! It was held up in Jackson for a week because of the storm. I'm juicing all my fruit from the freezer and canning it. I will make the jelly when it gets a little cooler. I could only find instructions for grape and apple in So Easy To Preserve. It said 5 mins in bwb. I had blueberry and peach and processed for 5 mins. I later looked in the BBB and it said 10 mins in bwb for all hard and soft fruit juice for jelly. Should I reprocess my juice? I just took it out of the canner about an hour ago.

Happy Birthday Westbrook!

 

 

Looks interesting! Thanks!

Tupperware sent me this in my last order. I have also seen it in Wal-Mart. It is Tupperware's recomended cleaner for the dishwasher. I always just used comet or soaked in mild bleach water.

Glad you stopped by Pixie! Hope to see you more often.

for Violet! I know I'm a worry-wart, but Violet is always so patient and kind. I appreciate you Violet, and wish the flowers were real! I was telling my aunt yesterday that I canned stew meat the night before and she said "oohhh I didn't know you could even do that .But I don't think I want to eat any of that". It felt good to reply that I was confident that the meat was just as safe as the the canned vegs, jelly and pickles that they always enjoy from my pantry. and tastes so much better than what you buy from the store! Boy that felt good to be able to speak with that kind of confidence because of what I have learned from Violet and MrsS. You are all a great bunch of folks!!

Sorry Canned Nerd. I just saw another topic where you told that you skinned the chicken! So just ignore that question. lol

Getting ready to take out 4 quarts and 1 pint of stew meat! My first try with beef. I can hardly wait to see how it looks!! I never sleep well when there is a hurricane brewing, so I figured I may as well do something productive.

 

 

I just saw your reply, Canned Nerd. Do you can your chicken with the skin on? Just wondered if it would make too much grease in the jar??

Violet, Do you have to thaw the fruit before you put it in the steamer? Thanks Jeepers, I had to sample it, and it was very good. Jelled already too!

I ordered a steam juicer Friday and can hardly wait for it to get here! I know that several of you have said they were a lot better than cooking, straining. dripping juice in a jelly bag... Making the jelly is a breeze, but all the prep to get the juice is time consuming and tireing. My question though is can you juice fruit after it has been frozen? I have 20 lbs of muskedines that I need to make juice from, but I wanted to wait and do them in the juicer. DH's friend from work brought me 45 lbs of muskedines to can on halves. His half is in the jelly, and my half is in the dishpan!

Good to see you!

14 pints of pear preserves. 7 pints of dilled okra and a bushel of okra in the freezer. Some of it I fried down for gumbo, some I put meal on to be ready for frying or baking, and the rest I just blanched and froze for whatever!

When you posted that you canned 'chuck stew meat', did you buy a chuck roast and cut in chunks, or did you buy already cut up stew meat? Chuck roast is on sale until Friday at a local store for 2.55 a lb, and that is about as cheap as it gets around here. I don't know what kind of cut stew meat comes from, so wasn't sure it would be as good as chuck roast.