I’m canning again… Still?
For some folks, canning comes in the fall, then they're done for the year. I can all year long. With the huge jump in the price of grain, it was time we butchered our...
When it’s windy and below zero outside, we work inside!
This last few days it's been below zero with a 25 mph wind, bringing the wind chill down so miserably that we couldn't do much outside. So, because we've built as we could afford...
Q and A: Canning corned beef and canning eggs
Canning corned beef
March is almost here and Corned Beef will soon be on sale every where. Do you can that up too? How does it come out? Do you like it? I usually fix...
Thanksgiving, then making jerky from David’s deer
We had a great "vacation." David had Thursday, Friday, and the weekend off from school. Of course, Thursday, being Thanksgiving, I cooked, cooked, and baked. That's MY vacation; doing all that baking and cooking,...
In between seeding out squash seeds, I’m canning venison
We've been really busy, seeding out the melons and squash in the greenhouse as we're heating it with propane, and it really isn't sealed up tight enough for economical heating yet. We're trying to...