(Two posts in less than 24 hours? How can this be? Where is the real Casey, and who is this post-crazy imposter? Heh.)
So, backing up: apple butter has been one of the banes of my home-preserving existence. For whatever reason, I can’t get the texture right. Either I under-cook it and end up with thick [...]
Remember Jack?
Um… yes. Well.
Jack was kind of a last-minute thing. We’d talked about actually carving a pumpkin this year, and yet somehow it got to be a couple days before Halloween, and we still didn’t have one. The neighbors’ kids found out, told their mother, and Mandy kindly donated one of theirs. Halloween day - [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...I wasn’t going to talk much about my canning this fall, because I was intending most of it for holiday gifts. But with postage rates steadily increasing - and my household income basically chopped in half now - it’s looking like I’m not going to end up sending jams to anyone for Christmas. I just [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...…for canning, of course.
Right about this time, I’m normally canning up blackberry jam. Unfortunately, between work, life stress, and the emergency trip back to NY, I picked about 3 cups of blackberries - not nearly enough for even a single batch of jam.
So for now, I’m all about apples. Apples grow wild on the side [...]
My fall canning has begun for real now. Behold!
Rhubarb-Ginger on the left, and Gingered Peach on the right. And many, many thanks to magnusmog, without whom I never would have figured out the rhubarb-ginger, which is kinda like a little heaven in a jar. I think a certain someone (Erin!) will really [...]
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