I do not do this usually but I had to recommend this site!!
This site is so informative and charming!
If you want to put up some of your beautiful organic garden foods but are somewhat hesitant about canning method and recipes (we all are in the beginning!) then try this site.
Basically, you have two very calm and down to earth people, David Blackburn and Andrea Van Wallenburg, who have put together online FAQs and recipes and even videos showing you how its all done. They even do podcasts. They are, in their very low key way, extremely in to or passionate about canning! I think they are in lovely sunny France, their videos show such a lovely utilitarian kitchen filled with bright sunlight.
I am going to share a few screen shots from their videos - visit their site and watch the videos for yourself.
They show equipment..
They even make and can pork, rabbit, and http://canningusa.com/IfICanYouCan/FishTuna.htm pâté! We have a frozen duck in our freezer (from our backyard), I am thinking I might do something like this with it.
Right now I am brewing up a batch of tomato sauce from our homegrown organic heirloom tomatoes. I will be canning them a bit later today and then put them up for the depths of winter when the garden is a distant memory and buried under feet of snow.
I grew some cherokee purple tomatoes from Victory Seeds and they are funky looking - purple! They are very meaty and went right into the pot.
I will go into more detail about this in another post but I had to share this site with you all!
Let me know if you can anything up and how it goes!
” by David Joachim and Andrew Schloss right now and I have to say I am LOVING this book. Will post review soon!
4 comments for this entry ↓
1 Kitt // Sep 1, 2008 at 1:14 am
How handy! I’d like to try canning, but it’s a little scary, y’know? I’ll definitely check out the site and see if they can allay my fears.
2 Ellen // Sep 6, 2008 at 5:38 am
I just tried canning for the first time. I made Sweet & Spicy Pickles and they came out great! I, too, was a little apprehensive about the whole process. While it is fussy, I still enjoyed it and I love the results. Definitely worth it! Thanks for the website recommendation - I will definitely try it.
3 n // Sep 10, 2008 at 7:28 am
Kitt: I hope the site helps. If you have any questions let me know! Practice is really the best way to learn this stuff.
4 n // Sep 10, 2008 at 7:29 am
Ellen, that sounds delicious! I am doing un-canned lactofermented pickles and also sauerkraut - will blog that in a few days (gotta get the act together) Its nice to be able to store things for enjoying later! My garden is definitely in the decline so this is a must.
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