{"id":11228,"date":"2025-10-15T12:35:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11228"},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:35:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:35:32","slug":"im-spending-these-rainy-cloudy-days-inside-canning-canning-canning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/10\/15\/im-spending-these-rainy-cloudy-days-inside-canning-canning-canning\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m spending these rainy, cloudy days inside, canning, canning, canning"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got Sherri’s celery all canned up and can just taste cream of celery soup, celery in poultry dressing, celery in stews. Yum!<\/p>\n

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This is some of Sherri’s celery, all canned up and ready.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday was a tomato day as I had four crates and a couple of buckets and baskets full of tomatoes we picked ahead of the freeze.<\/p>\n

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We have crates, bags, boxes, and buckets full of harvest in the entryway, waiting for me!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I did diced tomatoes (without skins) first. Then, while they were processing in the water bath canner, I got busy and cut up a roasting pan full to roast in the oven. I love doing this to make my tomato sauce quickly and with extra savory flavor. It separates the tomatoes, which still have skins and seeds, from the broth. That way, when I dip out the tomatoes, leaving the broth, the sauce, processed in my blender with some garlic, is already thick, with no cooking down needed. Then I can the broth, which is different from tomato juice as it’s primarily clear. I use that as a soup base and it’s very good that way!<\/p>\n

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I always can up some diced tomatoes, along with dozens of tomato recipes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I went out during my break and fed our wild turkeys, which are starting to hang around. They’re from our old wild hen’s breeding with our domestic tom. Some are greyish, as the tom was a Slate Gray. There is a large flock. We’ve counted about 24 of them. The bad winter we had three years ago killed off a whole lot of deer and wild turkeys. So, we are feeding them, trying to lure them closer to the buildings for winter feeding. It’s exciting to have turkeys back after being gone so long!<\/p>\n

On Monday, I went out to the Wolf Garden and picked two rows of our Seneca Round Nose flour corn. There were some of the longest cobs we’d ever grown! This was despite our crazy weather that drowned out several other corn patches. I love it to grind for cornmeal, and we also sneak a few “green” cobs to roast for corn on the cob. It has very big kernels, so you sure get your money’s worth there. Yesterday, Will went out and picked the rest of the patch. Now we have crates of corn to be husked and roped up in the house. Not only are the ropes of corn beautiful, hanging there, but are a sign of bounty. We’re so grateful!<\/p>\n

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We love Seneca Round Nose flour corn! This year, some cobs were a foot long!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got Sherri’s celery all canned up and can just taste cream of celery soup, celery in poultry dressing, celery in stews. Yum! Yesterday was a tomato day as I had four crates and a couple of buckets and baskets full of tomatoes we picked ahead of the freeze. I did diced tomatoes (without skins) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,9,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11233,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11228\/revisions\/11233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}