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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Archive for July, 2010
Fairy tales can come true
Long nights, hot jars: why you should try home canning
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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
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
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
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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