Can It Up: September
Posted on 1 September 2013 | 2 responses
Photo by The Ewan
Can you believe this is our 12th month of Can It Up? I can’t!
I’ve met my goal of canning every month over the last 11. Admittedly, that’s been a LOT easier since I moved back to California.
In fact. I’ve preserved more this past year than ever before. I’m so ready for holiday gift-giving that it’s ridiculous.
In any case, what are we going to preserve with in our 12th month of Can It Up? Let’s find out…
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Can It Up: August
Posted on 1 August 2013 | 1 response
Photo by Tom
Last month, it was incredibly hot.
Now that I work in San Francisco, I am freezing all the time. The weather this week isn’t helping me feel any warmer. It’s back to a typical Bay Area summer.
This means it’s the perfect time to heat up the kitchen with lots of boiling water and boiling fruit. We were on fire preserving berries last month. What will we preserve with this month?
Can It Up: Berries Roundup
Posted on 1 August 2013 | 2 responses
Blackberry Ketchup from All Four Burners
I dream of preserving even more berries. They may be (this is totally arguable) my favorite category of fruit to preserve.
Let’s see what we did with berries this month.
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Can It Up: Small-Batch Blackberry Ketchup
Posted on 10 July 2013 | 4 responses
Ketchup or catsup?
Unlike the to-may-to/to-mah-to controversy, I’ve never met anyone who proposes that catsup is the correct term. Maybe I don’t know any southern or British people. For your reference, I fall squarely into the to-may-to camp.
In any case, ketchup was among my favorite foods as a child. From what I understand (since I don’t know any personally), this is typical of small children. In retrospect, it’s mind-boggling that I would happily eat the overly sweet salt bomb that is store-bought tomato ketchup with bread alone, nothing else required.
Can It Up: July
Posted on 1 July 2013 | Comments Off on Can It Up: July
Photo by Jeremy Cherfas
It’s sooooo hot.
Seriously, how was it 95 degrees over the weekend in Belmont? That never happens…except that it did.
Since we don’t have air conditioning, that means that any and all canning plans I may have had were put on hold. We already did an amazing job preserving with cherries in June. I may get back to it on Thursday, when the high is supposed to be only 87. Ugh.
But let’s see what we’ll be preserving with…
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