Canning recipes, food preservation and food sales

[buffalobo]

Looked some stuff up and those two ideas, on top of just slicing and canning them, seem to be the most popular routes.

Tasty too. Home made sauce and filling always better than store bought.

[crays]

Looked some stuff up and those two ideas, on top of just slicing and canning them, seem to be the most popular routes.

Dehydrated Apple slices. Kids love em.

[Dave]

Make apple juice, add honey and yeast and in a few weeks you have a cyser.

[crays]

Make apple juice, add honey and yeast and in a few weeks you have a cyser.

Sounds like you've already been doing some sampling Dave.

[TheGrey]

Caramel Apple butter.
http://crockpotladies.com/crockpot-c...-apple-butter/

Make orange marmalade out of those oranges, or just slice them and can them up.

[TheGrey]

Sprouts has Roma tomatoes on sale through Tuesday, 2 lbs for $1.00. This is a pretty good bargain, especially considering that Walmart and Kings usually have them priced at over $1/lb. Sprouts carries them in crates of 25#, and all you need to do is find one of the workers setting out produce and ask them for a crate or two (instead of bagging them yourself.)

My plan is to put up enough tomatoes to carry us through the year, instead of spending over $1 per can. We go through a lot of tomatoes: pasta sauces, chili, salsa, soups, pizza sauce, etc.

Here's a tip: when sales like this come up, plan to buy as many as you can. Clear out space in your freezer, stock up on gallon freezer bags and vinegar. When you get your tomatoes home, scrub out your kitchen sink, rinse well and fill it halfway with cold water. Dump in about a cup of vinegar and then place your tomatoes in the sink. Make sure they are covered by the water. Let them soak for at least a half hour, and then examine them carefully for bruising or rotting sections. I line a colander with towels and take the opportunity to wash and rinse them and check them over- I usually find at least one that has a rotten spot. Put the clean tomatoes into the colander and let them drip-dry a bit before putting them into the gallon freezer bags in a single layer. I find I can fit about 17-20 tomatoes per bag; when they are all in bags, put them in the freezer until you're ready to process them. A quick dip in boiling water, followed by a bath in ice water will make coring and peeling the tomatoes a breeze. After that, you can dice them, chop them, roast them, or whatever else you care to do before canning them- just be sure to add a bit of lemon juice or vinegar to each jar, to ensure the acidity levels remain high for water-bath canning.

[rbeau30]

Thanks for that heads up! 50 lbs of tomatoes for $25 can't be beat!

Yum diced Maters!

The garden produced enough tomato sauce to last us for the year. This should augment the storage nicely.

[Madeinhb]

Thanks for the heads up. Bought 5 lbs so I can try this marinara sauce and can it if it comes out good.

[TheGrey]

Sprouts: 72-hour sale on Pineapple, .88 each. GO GET THEM! I must warn you, there were so many shoppers there this morning that the pineapples may not last for the full 72 hours, but that would simply mean you get a raincheck. Don't wait too long!

[RCCrawler]

Picked up 80lbs of chicken breasts this afternoon that I ordered a few months ago through Zaycon. Getting ready to spend a few hours vacuum packing them.