Category Archives: canning/food preservation

23 pints of chickpeas and 8 jars of borlotti beans to fill the dwindling stores. And a jar of dried tomatoes made as an example for the upcoming tomato canning class for the public.

I got to go pick kumquats and lemons last week at the Stanford Estate (aka the brother and sister in-laws’ home). The kumquat tree was loaded with fruit and they let me have almost all of it. When I got … Continue reading →

Whenever you can something, or freeze, or dry, or just plain store something, you need to label it. I have pulled a bag out of the freezer and thought that I had discovered something from a past epoch – frozen … Continue reading →