Q and A: canning cheese and making cornmeal from popcorn
Canning cheese
I just canned cheese for the first time. I did mozzarella and colby. The mozzarella turned brownish orange and the colby turned a lighter orange than normal. They almost look the same. Did...
Q and A: water loss in jars and off-grid dehydrating
Water loss in jars
This is my first year of pressure canning, ever, and I have a question regarding water loss from the canning jars. When I pressure canned green beans the water loss was...
Q and A: canning bacon and sausage and storing banana squash
Canning bacon and sausage and storing banana squash
I tried canning bacon and sausage for the first time a few weeks ago, both in half pint jars. The bacon did well, pint jars would have...
A stormy day
Today was a real stormy day. You name it; we had lots of rain, 50 mph winds with higher gusts, thunder and lightening. Needless to say I didn't get anything much...
Boy did we get clobbered by snow!
You know that storm that was heading for us? Well it got here. And how! Saturday night it started. Then by Sunday morning, we had a foot and the snow was still...