People used to do this all the time . . . they called it "canning".

If you "can" "vegetables" wouldn't it be called can-ablism?

hey thats cool fuzzy. I had thought about doing the canning thing, but then saw that freeze dried seemed to just be a lot easier. great idea on the asparagus too. 3 weeks ago it was $1.98 a lb here, now its $3.98??? The next time its back down, I might buy a few bunches and just freeze dry em to last the rest of the summer too... 

oh I agree. I think thats why they jack the prices so much. the stuff out there now looks like bamboo shoots or somethin. Not as good as the thinner stuff.

I grew up with them bolied. Then the got put on a dish and butter and a dash or two of salt was added. Although, now I am trying to remember if there was also a splash of lemon juice on them too. I have tried your suggestion form way back when about a little olive oil and grilled. I liked that. They take on a different taste and texture.

If they are fresh I may grill them. If they have been frozen, I treat them just like the other frozen veggies, into boiling water they go.

Just gives them a different flavor too. I am strange. It's okay. I know I am.

My mom was a canner. She always grew a HUGE garden and then picked and canned veggies all fall. I would (had to) help pick and hoe the garden, but she did most all the canning by herself . . . except for the corn.

Each year up until the year she died, we'd have a corn day. Mom and dad would grow a big enough patch of sweet corn for them, my brother's family and my grandparents. Us guys would start picking corn early in the morning. Then we'd husk it all, and start cutting the corn off the cob. As we cut it off, the ladies would cook it in big batches, and then put the cooked corn in 5qt ice cream pails. They would fill the bathtub with cold water and float the buckets of cooked corn in the tub to cool it back down. When cool enough, we'd put the corn into "Seal A Meal" bags and seal them up. By this time, it was always late evening and we'd divide the bags of corn, take them home and put them in the freezer . . . sweet corn all year.

I do seem to remember helping pick and snap a lot of beans too, but mom did most everything else herself.

She always grew tons of tomato plants . . . usually over 100 plants. She LOVED tomato juice, but no one else did. She could never get help making and canning the tomato juice.

Sorry, now I'm just remembering stuff out loud.

I helped my mom can for years. She used to can peaches, pears, beets, corn relish, tomato juice, stewed tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, different kinds of pickles, different kinds of jam, and applesauce. She canned using the hot water method.......wash and dry the fruit jars, sterilize 'em in boiling water, put the food in the jars, put the filled jars in a kettle of boiling water for a certain length of time, then carefully remove the jars from the water, put the lids and rings on the jars, and let them cool to seal the jars. She kept all the canned food on shelves in the basement......we had lots of different canned fruits/vegetables to eat during the winter.

While I miss all the different stuff she canned, I vowed I'd never can anything again!! It was an awful lot of work to do during the hottest part of the summer. August was the big canning month around these parts.

-- Edited by ghostdancer at 07:21, 2008-07-02

"The "How I'm Saving Money This Year" Thread"

Riggs just keeps selling everything he owns

  This makes me happy to hear JR!  I've always been a person that doesn't get attached to material possessions; sure they're nice to have, but I certainly wouldn't miss any of it if something were to happen.  No one in my family or circle of friends has ever understood this quirk of mine. 

confuzzed wrote:

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Jeremy Riggs wrote:

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I could even leave my computers behind at this point if I ever had to.

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Now that is just nonsense. However would we find you? Who would Heino us once in a while?

It is all really about us you know?

 

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we're dispensable too