Archive for July, 2010

Fairy tales can come true

July 31, 2010
By Two Hands and a Roadmap
Fairy tales can come true

Or: My new badass food strainer which will revolutionize home preservation endeavors as I know them Because I’ve got a few posts coming up on canning, I wanted to take a minute to show you my new toy. It’s the Roma Food/Veg Strainer. I bought it for two reasons: It will enable me to process tomatoes...
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Long nights, hot jars: why you should try home canning

July 22, 2010
By Two Hands and a Roadmap
Long nights, hot jars: why you should try home canning

Wait, don’t click out. I kept thinking of suggestive titles for this post that might get people’s attention — “What to do with a dozen rubber rings and just a little electricity” or “Hot syrup and headspace”– but heck with it. Sooner or later people will figure out that this a post about food preservation,...
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Things that did not especially make my week

July 16, 2010
By Two Hands and a Roadmap
Things that did not especially make my week

Photo credit: eo was taken. My 20th high school reunion is next month, so maybe I’m taking things just a little too hard, but surely some people should think before opening their big fat mouths. I know, a lot happens in twenty years. I had many mistaken notions in high school, notions that have taken...
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So, our carbon monoxide detector works

July 14, 2010
By Two Hands and a Roadmap
So, our carbon monoxide detector works

Photo credit: Spencer Finnley (no relation) It’s been a little crazy around here, so this will be brief. Last Tuesday our carbon monoxide detector went off. As far as life lessons go, this was a pretty rich experience: When husband says, “Naw, we don’t need to bother the fire department with this,” I should listen to...
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Berries and Cherries

July 4, 2010
By Two Hands and a Roadmap
Berries and Cherries

Or Country, with just a smidge of gangsta Photo credit: Darwin Bell From my Facebook wall: “Today I ate so many raspberries, I swear I’m going to crap jam.” * Oh yay. More fruit.  Raspberries are in season, so I schlepped the boys out to the country again, where we picked about five pounds of...
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