Apartment Therapy Tagged: canning

Three Onion Jam Recipes

I've been doing a lot of canning since April, taking advantage of all the seasonal fruits and vegetables and filling my larder. After a large batch of fruit jam-making, I decided I wanted to balance ...

Decorate Your Jars! Five Lovely Canning Label Templates

Have you been canning this summer? If you're thinking of gifting any of your delicious homemade goodies, here are some pretty labels to help jazz up your canning jars and let your lucky friends and ...

Canning Across America and Swallowing Swords
Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Curious about canning? Why not get some friends together and host a canning party?! Kim O'Donnel of "Canning Across America" tells us how. Plus, the art of sword swallowing, how cooking played a role ...

Five Extra-Pretty Canning Jars

Are you canning anything right now? We put up some cherries for Christmas gifts, so we have pretty canning jars on the brain. We love plain old Mason jars and the classic Ball brand, but there are s...

How Can I Safely Preserve Homemade Soups?
Ask the Guest Expert: Canning Questions for Marisa McClellan

Q: I have been told that its fine to use sterilized jars and put HOT soup in them — then turn them upside down and let them seal themselves. Is this a good method for low risk foods? — ...

Is It Safe To Use My Own Recipes for Canning?
Ask the Guest Expert: Canning Questions for Marisa McClellan

Q: How do you can something when you didn't make it specifically from a canning recipe? I make all kinds of soups I would love to can but they're not from a canning recipe book. — Question aske...

Is It OK If There Are Air Bubbles In Finished Jars?
Ask the Guest Expert: Canning Questions for Marisa McClellan

Q: I just canned a whole bunch of food for the first time yesterday. Mostly pickles and jam, but I also canned two tomato based things: spicy salsa and crushed tomatoes. I added commercial lemon juice...

My Strawberry Jam Went Bad! Why Did That Happen?
Ask the Guest Expert: Canning Questions for Marisa McClellan

Q: Several months after canning strawberry jam, I looked at the jars and the top layer of the jam was brown and smelled and tasted bad. Any idea what I may have done? It was so disappointing! I do t...

Is It Safe to Can Meat Sauces?
Ask the Guest Expert: Canning Questions for Marisa McClellan

Q: I'm curious: is the process for canning meat sauces (with tomatoes, etc. in the jar also) any different from canning vegetarian sauces? From marthag...

Do You Have a Good Recipe for Homemade Ketchup?
Good Questions

Q: Do any of you (or your reader) make homemade ketchup? With the current canning revival (and my surplus of tomatoes) I was hoping to add a great recipe to my cookbooks! Thanks and happy canning! ...

Canning Questions? Ask Marisa McClellan

Are you canning or preserving something this summer? Jam? Pickles? Ketchup or BBQ sauce? Do you have questions about recipes, technique, or just how to can tomatoes? Well, this is your chance to ask a...

Guess What Garden Treat Is In the Jar!

Tanya Spacek of Lawrence, Kansas sent us these fabulous photos of her past weekends adventures in canning. Can you guess what's in the jars? It's something Southerners might recognize more easily, b...

What Can I Do With Too-Sweet Blackberry Jelly?
Good Questions

Q: Help! I made my first foray into making jelly last night, didn't realize I was using low-sugar pectin and added the amount of sugar the recipe called for. The result is a blackberry jelly that is f...

You Put A Chest Freezer Where?!

We talked awhile back about having a second freezer in the home. We've always been big believers in owning one, but after our recent move to a smaller space, we ended up putting it in a rather unusu...

Hot and Steamy: A Visual Tour of Hot Water Bath Canning

A couple weeks ago I attempted canning for the first time in several years. Yes, I've made refrigerator jams and pickles, but I hadn't actually canned anything in quite a while. The process was both...

How Do I Make and Preserve Tomato Sauce?
Good Questions

Q: We're having a bumper crop of tomatoes here in the Northwest this year. In years past we've canned diced tomatoes for use throughout the year, but this year we thought we would like try making and ...

Taking It to the Streets
Community Cooking Events in San Francisco

Home cooking is often a somewhat isolated event. We usually cook for ourselves, our family and a handful of friends or colleagues. On occasion, a stranger appears in the mix, but usually they've bee...

Food Blog Spotlight: Food In Jars

You all know that we are semi-crazy about jars in the kitchen. We love to use 'em for storing stuff, serving lemonade, and canning our own jam. They are quiet and practical Good Things. Well, we are d...

Recipe Recommendation: Tarragon Strawberry Jam

Strawberries have been in the San Francisco farmer's markets for a month now, and I have been busy buying them up and making jams! I bought enough strawberries for three batches of jam, so after maki...

Well-Preserved by Eugenia Bone
Book Review 2009

I plan on doing a lot of 'putting up' this year, especially after my fun and successful tomato canning adventure of 2008, which led to award-winning results (at least among my friends.) And although ...

Learn How to Can and Make New Friends!
San Francisco Bay Area

Interesting. What our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers often saw as drudgery and a whole lot of messy work is now becoming an incredibly popular trend among this generation's new homesteaders. It...

Canning in the City
The New York Times 5.27.09

It's not really news that canning fruits and vegetables is on the rise. We've talked about preserving and pickling here and here and here. But The New York Times Dining section has some more encourage...

Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It by Karen Solomon
Book Review 2009

One of the best ways to eat locally year round is to preserve the bounty when it's in season. Once upon a time these skills were common knowledge for every homemaker, but for most people the last sev...

How To: Make DIY Sauerkraut

In today's shaky economic times combined with a movement to eat more sustainably, we're turning more to DIY food-related projects. From making our own bacon to building root cellars, we're learning h...

Preserving Gear: Maslin Pan from Lee Valley Tools

Have you ever made your own jam? It's really not that hard, and it doesn't take much in the way of special equipment. You usually do need one big pot, though, and that's where this maslin pan from Lee...

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