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10:51 am
September 15, 2009
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Pete
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With you on all that, Jeannie. We have been terribly humid here all summer, so I am even more careful than usual because of mold and mildew. Everything has to be nearly surgery level sterile! There is just too much stuff floating around in the air. It seems like I am wasting a lot of water boiling everything, but better safe than sorry.
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1:03 pm
September 16, 2009
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Have lots of apples. So thinking of making some of your carmel apple jam.
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2:21 pm
September 16, 2009
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CindyP
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ChikeeMomma said:
Have lots of apples. So thinking of making some of your carmel apple jam.
This was a favorite with family and friends for Christmas and also at the show I went to last weekend — this was the first to sell out!!!!
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10:12 am
September 18, 2009
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Yesterday I was able to buy extra yellow and purple beans from our CSA, plus traded eggplant for beans when we did our weekly pick up, so today we're snapping beans. Some of the yellow will be made into mustard beans and then the rest of the yellow and all the purple will be either canned or frozen (haven't decided which yet.)
And the new food mill that I ordered from Lehmans is supposed to be delivered today, so it looks like tomorrow we'll be making sauce from the tomatoes that have been slowly ripening one by one and stored in the fridge.
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11:26 am
September 18, 2009
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Drying some more yellow zukes. My produce guy really wanted to get rid of some, so I took them off his hands. The ones we dried earlier are disappearing fast because they are so good just to munch on! There may or may not be any for addiing to soups and stews later on.
Bad, bad report on my chile drying experience. The jalapenos and cayenne are just fine, but the serranos I dried evidently didn't get dry enough and got nasty in the jar. Will try again but cut smaller strips and leave them in the dehydrator until they are super crispy.
Looks like I may get around to another batch of hot pepper butter later today. Pretty much everything is done except assembly.
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12:00 pm
September 18, 2009
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I have my 18 quart stockpot full of my version of pepper butter, ready to can. I love it on everything! I'm going to make pint and half-pint jars and sell them at the farmers' market. I can't believe the number of people that comment they really like the hot peppers, the hotter the better. I'll bet they'll like this once they try it.
One of the other vendors makes basically the same recipe but uses chopped onions and sweet banana peppers. The first batch I made was half onions, half medium hot peppers. That wasn't hot enough so I added a can of mustard powder. It's tangy, with just a little bite at the end. This batch I used half onions and hotter peppers, but it still wasn't hot enough so I added two cans of mustard seeds and a jar of crushed red pepper flakes. It's hot enough for me now!
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8:15 pm
September 18, 2009
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5:10 am
September 19, 2009
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kathy
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 What are mustard beans?
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8:15 am
September 19, 2009
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Was wondering that, too, kathy! It sounds like a way they do the beans not a type of bean… 
Saw a recipe a couple of days ago, but got distracted before looking at it, and now cannot remember where it was! Here's hoping someone educates us soon. 
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2:49 pm
September 29, 2009
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Working on apples AND tomatoes today. Not sure if any of them will get to the canning jar stage for a couple of days, however. A box of tomatoes and a box of apples appeared late last night, and I had lunch plans for today, but got some applesauce made this morning. Much finish preparing and saucing those apples because they are nearly past being usable! Must also at least get the tomatoes into the freezer today for the same reason.
It's either feast or famin! Got a more than excellent deal on some mushrooms after lunch, and they must also be dealt with in some fashion today, or tomorrow at the latest. If they will hold until tomorrow, we may be in great shape.
Can you freeze mushrooms? There are enough that I hate to experiment with this many, and enough that I could get a batch of soup, maybe…
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2:55 pm
September 29, 2009
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One more canner full of beans (maybe two) since every time I think that surely the beans have quit producing, I come in with another pail of them. The lima beans are getting big — I worried we didn't have enough warm weather for the pods to fill out, but they are coming along. I'll blanch and freeze them so I can fix my favorite – lima beans and corn succotash – sometime in this cold winter to come.
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2:55 pm
September 29, 2009
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Pete, I don't know about freezing, but you can dry them. I suggest on the porch cause of the funky smell.
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3:34 pm
September 29, 2009
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Pete
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Ooh, Jeannie, that's the ticket! Thanks! Even have a new KitchenAid egg sllicer for slicing these beautiful mushrooms!
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9:53 pm
September 29, 2009
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wvhomecanner
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Yeah drying is better – freezing makes them spongy and weepy.
I can them in water also and pickled too. When I PC I can them whole, quartered and sliced, but we use the sliced the most it seems lol.
And I just discovered that we are OUT of home canned cream of mushroom, so on the lookout for a shroom deal for sure.
The shrooms definitely are funky smelling as they dry. I do those and onions and hot peppers out on the covered back porch. Ready to bring it in though – when it's this chilly, the dehydrator takes the chill out of the kitchen :)
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10:09 pm
September 29, 2009
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Last week, I was just sure we had a dead animal in our garage. I smelled it. My husband thought it smelled like hot tires…I tell you, the man has a nose! Well, I finally couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't find the critter…so I told my husband that he had to find it. We have the garage sealed up pretty tight – all tiny holes are stuffed. I figured it was a leezard or a snake. Thankfully, it was neither…in fact, it didn't even have bones. My husband had picked a bunch of mushrooms out of our yard – and he threw them in the garage trash. They were rotting!
…so yes, mushrooms have a "funky smell" – in fact, they smell like something dead! 
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4:23 pm
September 30, 2009
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Last fall I got a bushel of pears — no one could tell me what kind, but they were hard as a rock. I kept waiting for them to ripen, but they didn't. They went from rock-like to mush in a day. So I decided I might as well can them and hope they softened in the canning process. I canned a couple of dozen pints in juice, and still had more to can. I had cinnamon imperials (those tiny red-hot candies) that I use to make cinnamon apple butter. I added a handful of the candies to the syrup and canned the last of the pears in the cinnamon spiced juice. They are so good I take a pint jar, and a spoon, and finish them off all by myself.
I just got another 1/2 bushel of those rock-hard pears! This year they are ALL going to be cinnamon pears. Now I just need another bushel of pears….
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9:17 am
October 1, 2009
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It's 9:00 am and I've been at it since 5:00. So far I've canned two loads of beans this morning, I'm ready to milk the goats, and I have beef stew in the crockpot. Some of it will be for dinner, but I'm also going to take a stab at canning the stew. I've never done anything in the pressure canner but vegetables. Never thought of doing anything else. Since I never cook less than 14 servings of anything this should be a great way to leave me time to do things in the winter. I've just got to time it so I don't completely cook the stew because it will continue to cook in the jar, and I don't want mush. The meat is basically cooked and I'm going to do the vegetables separately then can both in the beef broth. I'll let you know how it goes.
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11:53 am
October 1, 2009
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wvhomecanner
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Kathy, my best beef stew in a jar is when I can it with fully cooked meat and uncooked or undercooked veggies. Yum such tender meat! But I have also canned it from fully cooked and it was very good, just very tender veggies. You are gonna love having it on the shelf. I am OUT at my house and ready to get back on the meals in a jar canning.
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3:34 pm
October 1, 2009
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Pete
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Am so sick of looking at tomatoes today that I am ready to throw them all into a blender and make "sauce" out of them! And that may just be where the rest of them end up! Blend them down, then cook them into some sort of pasta sauce tomorrow.
Then there are the apples…
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4:36 pm
October 1, 2009
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JeannieB
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