I’ve been getting my canning supplies sorted and checking how many jars of different sizes and lids I have. I’m still in the early days of canning but I managed to can quite a lot more in the last twelve months. I’m thinking of canning some more pulses before the growing season gets going properly. We have a largely plant based diet. I’m not the cook so my job is really just to provide the ingredients from my allotment and very small home garden. Although I would say that summer for us was absolutely terrible, NW England, rain, grey skies and cold, think slugs, I’m amazed that we’ve still got plenty of home grown produce to go at. One of the things we’ve loved has been the roasted down tomatoes, frozen into 60ml freezer moulds and stored in the freezer. They are really rich and when you only want a small amount they are perfect.
The thing is to assimilate one or two new items each year and get really used to preserving them - preferably in a couple of different ways to keep it flexible. If you try to do everything at once it is easy to get overwhelmed and disheartened. The weather has been a disaster for the last two years - we must be due some sunshine sometime!
I’ve been getting my canning supplies sorted and checking how many jars of different sizes and lids I have. I’m still in the early days of canning but I managed to can quite a lot more in the last twelve months. I’m thinking of canning some more pulses before the growing season gets going properly. We have a largely plant based diet. I’m not the cook so my job is really just to provide the ingredients from my allotment and very small home garden. Although I would say that summer for us was absolutely terrible, NW England, rain, grey skies and cold, think slugs, I’m amazed that we’ve still got plenty of home grown produce to go at. One of the things we’ve loved has been the roasted down tomatoes, frozen into 60ml freezer moulds and stored in the freezer. They are really rich and when you only want a small amount they are perfect.
The thing is to assimilate one or two new items each year and get really used to preserving them - preferably in a couple of different ways to keep it flexible. If you try to do everything at once it is easy to get overwhelmed and disheartened. The weather has been a disaster for the last two years - we must be due some sunshine sometime!