Scott and I have been doing a bit of January cleaning. We’ve purged our bookshelves, sorted through dresser drawers and crawled to the very back of our deepest closet, all in the hopes of clearing out some of our clutter and extra stuff.
While I was taking inventory of the empty jars I keep under our living room couch (it has just enough clearance for cases of half pint and quarter pint jars), I discovered a cache of Ball products. These were part of a box of tools and ingredients that Ball sent my way last summer. I thought I’d given away everything in that box that there was to give away, but it appears I was mistaken.
Happily, my summertime forgetfulness makes for a fun surprise in January. What I have to give away is a Ball Home Canning Discovery Kit
If you’re interesting in a chance to win this assortment of Ball products, here’s what to do.
- To enter the giveaway, leave a comment on this post and share what preserve you’ve most enjoyed eating so far this winter.
- Comments will close at 11:59 pm eastern time on Friday, January 20, 2012. Winner will be chosen at random (using random.org) and will be posted to the blog on Saturday, January 21, 2012.
- Giveaway is open to U.S. and Canadian residents.
- One entry/comment per person, please.
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blueberry-pomegranate preserves
Cowboy candy is the best!
So far the best preserve this winter has got to be the caramel spiced pear jam I made in the fall with fruit from the pear trees in my back yard. Delish!!
I would love that recipie. Where did yoou find it?
I love opening a jar of homemade canned tomatoes in the dead of winter. Has to be the best smell ever. Thanks!
I’ve been canning for about 33 years and could really use some new and improved tools.
I’ve really enjoyed both my ‘spiced caramel pear jam’ and my ‘apple pie jam’!!
The thing I have enjoyed the most is my Bread and Butter Pickles. It was my first year making them, and I used my great-grandmothers recipie. My husband loved them too!
Blackberry Jam!
We have been gobbling up lots of candied jalapenos. Yum.
Can you pass this on? Yum!
I have most enjoyed the Rose-Petal Jelly I put up this past summer. It’s like a taste of spring!
I made the crumble bars from Good to the Grain with your vanilla rhubarb jam — so good. That jam is the bomb.
Cinnamon Pears!
I always could use more canning supplies! I am actually trying to put together enough stuff to loan to friends who are interested in canning!
Happy to come across this, just joined your FB page the other day! I’d be happy to share what preserve I’ve enjoyed most but I was unable to garden this last spring/summer because of a broken leg…I’ve decided to double the garden size this year, now that I can garden again, and take up canning. So I’m brand new to it all! Thanks so much for the offer!
An excellent beet relish I got from the River Cottage Preserve book.
Chutneys! Zucchini chutney was divine, and persimmon was sunny enough for the dreariest of Pacific Northwest days.
I made a Cranberry Cardamom jam that I have loved in muffins! What a great giveaway!
Peach
I have loved eating my bright and cheery raspberry jam. It was my first batch I added lemon zest to and my goodness, what a difference. I am a newish canner, so I hope to win!
Thanks for the opportunity.
Meagan
the pickles we made. but my husband says the strawberry rhubarb jam
i’m Chinese, and one thing i use often is bean curd preserves!
We have been loving the spicy pickled carrots I made in the fall! Delicious!
Triple berry jam or rhubarb -orange – ginger marmalade. Both are equally delicious.
Homemade salsa!
We’ve been really enjoying the three-citrus marmalade I made from your blog, eating it on toast, cooking pork with it, or just gobbling spoonfuls!
Pear butter
I am enjoying apple butter! Yummy!
My favorite would be the Salsa and the V-12 Juice that I put up with all my summer tomatoes and veggies. Mine are so much better for me and tastier to boot!
I am new to canning and the Portuguese Hot Sauce I made last fall is awesome, want to get more into this canning hobby so I have been collecting as much info about it as possible…I need more equipment that’s for sure. Thanks for a great site and contest offering too
Cheers!
I used to watch my mom can all our home grown vegetables when I was a kid, she kept a large garden and everything was canned or frozen, to save money and keep us well fed through the winter. I have always wanted to try it myself. My favorite are her bread and butter pickles.
We’re far into our coldest time of year in Georgia and I am still eating strawberry preserves! <3 I've been putting them on everything lately.
The homemade tomato soup I make last summer from the tomatoes in my garden. Sure tastes good on a cold winter day.
Well I guess this year would have to be the peaches I canned. They are so yummy now that they are no longer in season it’s great to be able to still enjoy the sweet flavor. It was my first year doing anything other then jams. I got a pressure canner for Christmas so I’m going to be trying all sorts of new recipes
Thanks for the chance to win your giveaways. Love your blog and FB pages.
oOo so excited for the giveaway!
I’ve been loving my pickled cauliflower & okra! I blend the cauliflower into my Bloody Mary mix & garnish with the okra. It makes Winter feel like a Summer morning!
How does pickled okra taste? I just stir fry mine with other veggies or add them to soup for thickening. I was so pleased when I found that the growing season here in southeastern Mass was long enough to grow my own. An added plus to growing Okra, the flowers are beautiful enough for the flower garden,.
I am not going to post what I have enjoyed eating myself, but what I have most enjoyed sharing with others, and that is our families wine jelly!
My favorites so far have been giardiniera and maple walnut syrup
I love having so may kinds of homemade jam. I know exactly whats in it and where and how the fruit was grown. We use it on toast of course as well as on waffles, in baking, and glazes for meat.
The spicy tomato jam you posted has been my favorite to crack open this winter! It also made a great gift for my foodie friends!
Hands down, pear vanilla jam. We had it for Christmas with baked brie. Amazing!
My amaretto peach preserves in oatmeal. Yum!
I made some Watermelon jelly this summer, it came out pretty well, I will definitely do it again. This winter I have really enjoyed it on toast, it’s like spreading a bit of summer on my breakfast, really nice on these cold winter mornings.
My homemade zesty salsa, we eat it on everything!
Just made a veggie lasagna with canned tomatoes!
Spiced plum jam. I was surprised at how long the season is for plums. I’m planning on making both red and yellow preserves using plums from Linvilla.
Bourbon Peach Vanilla Jam – husband ate the last of it
Tomato sauce!
I honestly love plain jane strawberry Jam from the Summer
It reminds me that Winter will leave soon! LoL
That is a tough call. There has been a lot of preserved goodness. My dad liked the sauerkraut stuffed pickled banana peppers, my daughter likes the plain old strawberry jelly. Other votes for best preserves have included pickled green tomatoes, peach jalepeno jelly, apple sauce and blueberry butter. I think my favorite has been plain and simple nectarine jam or pickled watermelon rind. Or maybe the plum rum jam. So hard to pick just one!
I’ve enjoyed my peach jam. First time I made it, it turned out really well, and it reminds me of summer!! (which seems really far away right now)
I’m currently living the rural life and have turned to canning more and more. My favorite items from the past year would have to be zucchini salsa and peach pie filling.
I’ve been really enjoying the applesauce, apple jelly & apple butter – although I’ve handled enough apples to last me till next fall! Thanks for the fun drawing!
Strawberry jam and tomato catsup are a tie for my favorite canned tastes of summer on a cold January day!
STRAWBETTY~JALAPENO jam is the best
Hard to pick! My plum jam is pretty good, though my friend made a really good fig jam (we swapped our jams) that has been great in the winter.
The tomato sauce made from our garden tomatos. So yummy and fresh tasting. Loving making marinara and tomato soup from it this winter.
It’s a tie between dilly beans and yellow tomato basil jam, both from your recipes and both surprisingly delicious (I say surprising because these are two foods that I never saw myself liking).
Pineapple habanero jelly. Or, maybe the sweet red onion marmalade. I love them both so much.
I love opening my pickled beets, chow-chow and fresh peach jam the most. I am new to canning and was fortunate to have a successful ‘first summer’. Next year I will freeze less and can more. What a delight!
I have been following your blog for awhile now. This would be a great kit for me to finally take the plunge (pun intended) in actually canning instead of just freezing. I can start practicing for when my daughter (13 years old) has produce ready for her garden.
This has been my first year of canning. My favorite canned item this year is probably the apple pie filling. The kids always ask for it with pancakes, french toast or waffles.
Apple Butter!
My favorite jam that I put up last fall and am enjoying now is my Green Brandywine Tomato Raspberry Jam !!!!
I’ve most enjoyed spiced peaches… a taste of summer in the dead of winter!
Last night we enjoyed some Organic Okanagan Cherry preserves on a bowl of Ice Cream and it was heaven. Brought me a little taste of Sunshine
blueberry jam into homemade yogurt!
definitely the pickled cranberries!!
Favorite so far? Sour Cherry Preserves!! Delicious on everything toasted.
I recently canned cranberry peach preserves, and we’ve been eating it like crazy! It’s like winter and summer together in one little jar. My husband can’t get enough of it on his ice cream.
Hands down, our favorite jam this year is your cranberry apple jam
The flavor is just awesome. My oldest college age son swears the only way to eat it is with a spoon right out of the jar. I put up a second batch over the holidays because we ate the first batch so quickly.
So far my families favorite has been the strawberry vanilla jam. My personal favorite is the homemade kaluha! YUM!!
SALSA!
I enjoyed making the pickled brussels sprouts that were featured in Serious Eats/In A Pickle.
So far, canned peaches. It’s nice to have a reminder of summer when there’s a lot of fresh snow on the ground! Also, the pear vanilla jam from your site is amazing. I wish I’d made more than a half batch!
So far we are enjoying apple pie filling and applesauce, these are my son’s favorites!! And always salsa
I can never have enough pasta sauce or chicken soup that I have put up.
Plain ol’ strawberry jam,… put up (freezer style) last June. Sometimes the basics are best. You could still taste the sunshine.
So far I have only made Strawberry Rubarb preserves, but would love to be able to make more! Looking forward to making a whole lot of different things!!
An apple caramel jam has been most enjoyed by my grandbaby this winter!
I love the pickled cranberries and the leftover cranberry shrub brine that you gave us all. It was Deelishie!
My curried pickled veggies did indeed go well with chicken curry!!!
It’s not homemade, but I love apple butter in the colder months!
My family has been enjoying tomato soup on these dreary winter days.
Homemade salsa. It’s great to enjoy our garden tomatoes here in January!
I’m pretty new to canning, but I’ve been loving my canned cranberry orange relish
Last summer I had a huge crop of tomatoes. When looking through my canning book and trying to figure out what to use them for I ran across a recipe for tomato jam. I made two double batches. Now that it is cold out we have gotten some out to have. It is soooo good. It has a little kick of heat and spice and yet is sweet. My husband and I have been trying it on everything and so far it has been awesome on everything including toast.
I’ve most enjoyed our delicious canned turkey this winter — it’s been incredibly convenient, too.
Growing up I was taught how to can and preserve. Didn’t really care to know then. But as I got older and had kids I thought it would be so much healthier. So I started canning everything I could get my hands on and got my family involved it the process. Well now I was just diagnosed with Celiac disease and I have to cut gluten out, and I am so thankful that I know how to do this lost art! Thank you for all your information.
Homemade Apple Pie filling
Mmmm… salsa!
Pomegranate Jelly is number one at my house. Love this time of year as the new seed catalogs are showing up and the summer garden plans are beginning! Can’t wait for canning season.
I love my homemade bread and butter pickles!
Tomato Soup. It is so fresh and warm on cold days. (especially when I don’t feel like cooking. lol)
My grandma made an amazing batch of peach jam with super ripe North Carolina peaches. I ate gallons of it over Christmas.
I just got a peach-raspberry jam from a local farm. Divine!
Definitely enjoying my pickled jalapenos! Abundance in the garden = warm winter dishes!
Some Pear Vanilla jam I made with Asian pears that I thought was best used for syrup as it didn’t set up. Now 6 months later its awesome!
This was my first year canning and so far the best has been the blackberry ginger jam.
My husband’s is the bacon jam I made two weeks ago. He was skeptical of it when I started it but now he can’t eat it fast enough.
My favorite jam this year was “cranberry strawberry”! Yum!
Caramel apple jam!
Definately Chunky Spiced Apple Butter!
Plum jam from August, Used in Christmas cookies in December. This is why canning exists.
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So far this winter I have had 1 small jar of cherry preserves that a friend gave to me.
Actually, I’ve been rationing it for so long, it’s probably gone bad…
But hey, I *could* make my own preserves with my own canning kit, It’s just so hard to decide on my own which one to get, amazon has such a wide selection!
I’ve really been enjoying my peach lavender jam. It really hits the spot on a cold day.
Our favorite preserved food this winter has definitely been our pluot jam!
Earl Grey Vanilla Peach Preserves
I am new to canning…want to get started and could really use these…so I am not enjoying anything yet this winter, but hopefully I will be next winter!!!
Plain ol’ canned peaches
Pumpkin Butter has been my favorite so far, but my spring craving for things with strawberries is starting early this year so may start in on the strawberry jam soon.
peach pie filling yummy. Its really good on waffles. Hmm thinking about this makes me want to make a pie.
I’ve enjoyed our bread and butter pickles. Unfortunately we are down to the last jar.
Can’t wait for the summer!
We enjoy quite a few canned goods – but am especially enjoying my dilly beans. They turned out great this year!
I have enjoyed all my apple items. apple butter, apple juice, apple sauce and apple pie filling
Would love a new cookbook! I’ve even surviving on fig jam the last few weeks
The apple cranberry chutney was delicious!
I am just learning about canning so I REALLY need these so I can make some preserves
Apple jelly. Simple and so lovely!
I can’t get enough of the calamondin marmalade that I made thanks to a conversation with a farmer at the farmer’s market a few months ago. It makes me wish I had bought more calamondins so I would have more than 3 jars left, and it has made me consider getting my own calamondin tree for next year!
Congrats on your cleaning!
I am enjoying my applesauce as I write this.
Michelle
The strawberry jam I made this last summer. It’s so fresh and delicious!
We are enjoying my spiced cranberry conserve!
I cracked open a jar of canned tomatoes just last night to use in my curry lentil soup- yum!
Homemade apple butter was my favorite!
I have enjoyed my Key Lime Marmalade that I made this winter….
Jalapeno relish. Delicious!!
Jalapeno jam!
Hope this counts, because my answer has to be “none.”
But! That is why I need to win! My list of 2012 resolutions includes perfecting my refrigerator pickles recipe (which, once perfect, will probably be wanting canning) AND “Can something. Anything. Learn how to do this, starting with the Urban Preserving small-batch recipes on Food in Jars.” So there you go. Help me, Obi Wan Can-obi. You’re my only hope.
queen anne’s lace jelly
Apricot jam! Simple but so good!
My favorite so far has to be all the different types of pickles.. but I know others have loved my strawberry… and apple Cinnamon Vodkas
This was my first year canning – so pickles it is! I made dill and bread & butter. The dill chunks are my favorite!
I have not canned anything but granola, and we love that!
I’ve been really interested in learning more about canning & maybe possibly even giving it a whirl. A starter kit like this would be a great start!
My favorite preserves are apricot, though I’ve never made my own (yet)
Brandied Cherries!
I would love to win this! My Mom always canned and I want to follow in her footsteps. My favorite thing she made me this season is jalapeno apricot jam.
i’ve enjoyed my mil’s canned peach jam. so good. also, some pickled carrots that i received as a gift. excited to get into canning myself… someday soon!
I canned with a friend for the first time last summer. We did pickles and peaches! Love making cobbler with the peaches! I really need to get my own supplies so I can can at home this year! Hint hint.
I love everything I’m eating right now, but I am especially enjoying my Peach Cardamom Jam since the peaches came from my tree. My tree produces every year, but I never get the benefit of a harvest because the tree rats, I mean squirrels, always eat the peaches before they get ripe enough for picking.
Canned tomatoes that I preserved in August are the staple of my winter diet – stews, sauces, soups, you name it, I’ve probably put canned tomatoes in it.
I love the plum anise jam. My husband’s favorite is the asian plum sauce.
Homemade Salsa and Fig jam! Not together of course but yummy!
The only thing I’ve been able to enjoy is the blueberry jam I made over the summer, which is the first and only thing I’ve ever canned. I took a canning class (we picked the blueberries that morning) on one of the hottest days of the summer! But, since I’ve mostly overcome my fear of canning, I’m looking forward to giving it a go this spring and summer.
We have most enjoyed the peach butter this winter, but we’re also enjoying the peach pit jelly — our first year making it.
best preserve?
definitely your pickled cranberries. my kids love them!
A marmalade of apples and apple cider with a hint of rose water.
Well, due to the cold summer we had I didn’t get many ripe tomatoes but I sure am enjoying my green tomato chutney. It was the first time I ever made it but I may have to pick some tomatoes while they are still green, next year.
I would have to say strawberry jam!
Strawberry jam!
My one favorite preserve? That’s a tough one! I think we have a three- way tie here: Strawberry Jam, Blueberry Jam and Apple Butter!
I have loved the vanilla & lemon pear jam but the surprise treat is the jar of sweet pickled okra. I have been chopping it up and stirring it into soup or slicing and placing on sandwiches.
I canned some REALLY yummy jalapeno jelly last month. It goes so great with crackers and cream cheese.
The best preserves we enjoyed so far this winter is the Candied Jalapeno Peppers. I guess its time to make some more.
We’ve been loving peach BBQ sauce–a nice taste of summer in icy Minnesota.
Definitely the sour cherry preserves I made in July!
We’ve enjoyed the most homemade applesauce! We picked the apples ourselves and each time we eat the applesauce it brings back good memories of our apple picking day
Lately we’ve been enjoying blackberry syrup in cocktails. It makes me feel inspired to make more syrups this coming year since they are easy.
I have really be enjoying my jams. Can’t forget my canned tomatoes too….
So far, I only use my jars to freeze summer produce. My favorite is to chop local strawberries, sprinkle with just a little sugar and freeze in half-pint jars. Thawed in the fridge, they are a sweet indulgence on a bleak winter day!
Green tomato relish, yummmm!
For me it’s pickled beets. But, then again, it’s pretty much always about the pickled beets! I kinda have a crush.
strawberry jam! it tastes like summer.
spicy pickled vegetables!
Peaches in light chai tea-infused syrup. It tastes like Christmas in a jar!
White potatoes and sweet potatoes have been our favorite canned item this winter.
I need one of these!!!! Im jus starting to get into canning because i have a baby on the way…i wanna make my own baby food and have my own organic garden and can all that comes out of it.
Pear caramom jelly and red pepper chili sauce.
I was given tons apples and pears and i made apple pear butter and it was fun to make and tasted great:)
Pear vanilla jam for sure! It enticed me to first try canning, and has me hooked. I eat it with Greek yogurt and homemade granola every morning!
Canned peaches and tomatoes bring a little bit of summer to these cold winter days!
It’s a toss up between my spiced pear jam, or elderberry sauce. I would love reading and using that kit!
My boys have been enjoying strawberry jam.
So many things… but I’ll have to say pickled peaches… and brandied cherries… and plum preserves…
I am simmering pork chops in apple butter I made just before Christmas. The house smells heavenly! My niece and I will start canning together this summer and extra tools would be helpful!
Tomato sauce!
I am loving my peach maple jam. I am going to be so so sad when I run out.
We have been really enjoying the blueberry jam we made…so delicious!
Good, old fashioned, Canadian, chili sauce. I make it every year with my mom and it tastes like summer.
Canned peaches! All that work was worth the effort. Now I just need toive try the brandied peaches I’ve got stashed …
Cucumber pickles are my perennial favorite, though I’m sure I’ll feel differently if I put up more of my own stuff.
The Apricot Peach Butter!
Oregon strawberry jam…summer in a jar! And a friend’s red-wine soaked figs, which I aspire to make soon.
They’re not very exotic, but being new-again to canning, the best preserves I had were the blueberry and peach jams I made in a recent canning class!
I’m excited to take on more adventurous concoctions in the coming year!!
It has to be red pear lavender — it tastes like neither pear nor lavender. It’s something else altogether wonderful and almost unearthly.
Tie between strawberry fig preserves and applesauce!
The peaches I did last summer are even better now when I open a beautiful jar of them. They are 100% better than any kind I have purchased in the store. I am hooked on canning!!
My experiment of Blackberry Lavender jam!! So good on crackers with goat cheese……
I have really enjoyed my homemade Spaghetti sauce! So yummy. I am excited to preserve what will come out of the garden this coming season as I plan to have even more in it!!
cinnamon pear
The only thing I managed to can this last summer were pickles and they were gone long ago. Finding your site has really inspired me to make a better effort this year.
Bread and butter Serrano peppers!
Huckleberry preserves
I have been enjoying the peach jam I made scooped over ice cream. Feels like summer for a moment!
The Apple Pie Jam has been the best thing ever this winter! It keeps the memories of a brisk fall walk fresh in my mind!
I have never canned before but would love to learn how. I have sampled some delicious canned fruits and veggies though. I love strawberry jam and pickled cucumbers that I received from a friend. They were DELICIOUS! Can’t wait to try canning myself!
Oh, man, all kinds of tasty stuff on here! My favorite preserve isn’t a jam or jelly, its my homemade chicken stock. Soooooo much better than making soup with water, or store bought bouillon. I can it in pints, but don’t tell my mother, she still thinks she’s getting her jelly jars back!
peach butter on biscuits
Sweet & Spicy Jalapeno Jelly
My bread and butter pickles …. simply the best!!!!!!
It’s too hard to pick just one. Strawberry/raspberry jam and pickled garlic scapes are two favorites.
I’m brand new to canning. I’ve only learned how to can applesauce so far. Can I still enter to win?
My friend made some fabulous raspberry chocolate jam that is absolutely amazing on vanilla ice cream. It’s definitely my favorite of this winter (and one of my favorites of any season)!
We’ve been enjoying homemade catsup from homegrown tomatoes!
I’ve been enjoying my Aunt’s peach-apple-berry preserves
Just started canning at the end of the season so didn’t get to make very much but I love the strawberry jam we have.
I have enjoyed my chicken stock mostly. love it, no salt, no additives… just pure goodness
I didn’t know if I was crazy about it when I made it this summer but I have LOVED my spiced peach jam all winter long. Definitely will be making another batch this summer to get me through next winter.
It’s a toss between two – my husband has been LOVING the Pickled Jalapeno Peppers but the whole family loves the Marionberry Jam. I have been wanting the Ball Book of Preserving for so long but haven’t got myself out to find a copy so I would love to win this!
Fire Salsa from Tart and Sweet…I’m addicted!
It’s hard to say which preserve is my favorite. Lemon zucchini marmalade, or maybe sweet pepper relish, or green tomato chutney.
That home canning kit would sure come in handy at the canning classes I’ll be teaching this summer.
Thanks for all you do Food In Jars!
I’ve never canned anything, so my favorite preserve this winter is a jar of blueberry maple jam that you gave us! Should my comment be randomly selected, I promise to give canning a try this summer.
tomato jam, i made tons this summer when heirloom tomatoes where always around and now my girlfriend and i have been enjoying eat it all winter with everything
This will be my first year making my own. I always love a good jam or salsa!! Thanks for the giveaway!
Dill cucumber pickles… my mother made them (I don’t have the supplies) and out did herself this year! They’re delightfully crunchy…
The best thing so far has to be the three berry syrup… feeling summer-y when we put it on the pancakes this weekend…. even though it was SO cold here in Philly!
Roasted Garlic and Red Pepper Pasta Sauce, and canned tomatoes which I have used in all kinds of yummy soups and chowders.
Apricot jam for a touch of home made on a baked brie
Serviceberry preserve
For Christmas I gave Bourbon Satsuma Marmalade which is great as a glaze for pork or chicken. I’m still enjoying bread and butter pickles! And I’m almost ready to can the beets that are growing in our wonderful Mississippi winter garden.
The apple pie filling I canned this fall made a really great excuse to make a pie. Or three.
Apricot and vanilla jam made last spring–absolutely the best thing I preserved all last year. Recipe from Christine Ferber’s Mes Confitures.
The best thing we have had this winter is the blackberry jam…..my toddler requests it nearly everyday!
Dilly Beans!!!
My favorite has been the last of a pear chutney–I need to make more next year!
This is my first year canning & I started out with the beginners kit. It’s perfect to start out with but the plastic can melt during longer processing times.
But my favorite homemade canned good so far has gotta be ur pear vanilla jam & ur small batch strawberry jam. I can’t stop eating them. It goes on everything, thumbprint cookies, pear jam it amazing as a cake filling, using some for tarts, toast oatmeal, pb&j… Need I go on. Lol
Candied Jalepenos!
I have really enjoyed the blackberry-lime jam I made this summer.
Ooh! Fun giveaway! Thank you!
What preserve have I most enjoyed this winter? I’m not sure. I love my tomato sauce on pizza and the pears I did just before Christmas. The applesauce is really sweet and the cranberry orange marmalade is divine…. I love it all!!
I am a novice and made my first ever tangerine marmalade from tangerines off our tree for Christmas gifts this yr. Altho’ I ruined (scorched) one batch because candy thermometer quit working, the other batch turned out really fabulous. Everyone loved it!
It’s hard to pick just one, but I’d have to say strawberry-and–black pepper!
Pepper jelly on cream cheese with crackers!
crisp, crunchy dill pickles!
My husband’s aunt made the most delicious peach jam. I wish I had a whole freezer full of it!
Thanks for the giveaway! I’ve been wanting to try my hand at canning beyond freezer jam.
Strawberry Grapefruit Jam – a new recipe and the youngest helped to can it, so it is special.
Oh, wow! I’d love to have this recipe. It sounds incredible.
I am a novice and made tangerine marmalade from tangerines off our tree for Christmas gifts this yr. Altho’ I ruined (scorched) one batch because the candy thermometer quit working, the other batch turned out really fabulous. Everyone loved it!
I love my home canned tomatoes….and cherish that I have them for soups, stews, sauces, and chili. The choke cherry jelly really makes my day, too. Already dreaming of my summer garden 2012.
The best canned item I have eaten this year was not made by me, but next year it will be! Get this…. bread & butter BRUSSEL SPROUTS! They were SO GOOD.
Sour cherry preserves!
Cute giveaway! My MIL canned peaches from her neighbors garden this summer and they are delish! I also love the apricot jam she made us too! I made a pretty crabapple jelly that tastes both sweet and tart and is nice on toast in the morning
I made your vanilla pear jam and LOVE it!! I eat it on toast, in yogurt, on ice cream and with a spoon
I can’t decide whether or not I like carrot cake or tomato jam better. So good!
Probably the wasabi-soy green beans. So good!
Oh, We’ve enjoyed the picidilli relish, spaghetti sauce, and the apple butter so far. In fact, I’m ready to pull more apples out of the freezer and make another batch of butter. YUMMY!
Roasted corn salsa I canned this summer is great during the winter and cranberry orange sauce so yummy..I need to make more…
Oh, I love my canned foods. One I can never get enough of is having roast beef on hand. Meals are so easy. My kids favorite – mini tacos. Shredded beef and black beans (both home canned) seasoned, then layered over tortilla chips and cheese, served with black olives, guacamole, sour cream and salsa.
Our zucchini relish — it makes a so so burger or hot dog taste so much better!
Apricot Jalapeno Jelly! It’s great on everything from paninis to cream cheese and crackers!
I am a new canner. I just started last summer and loved it! I canned tomatoes, apple sauce, pickles, and pears. I think the pears were the best. I love pears and it was so nice to have them on hand in my pantry. I borrowed all my canning supplies from my sister. I am hoping to find some supplies this summer in garage sales. A good friend of mine wants to learn so we are going to have a couple of canning parties if we can get all the supplies. I can’t wait for this summer!!
I’ve been enjoying triple berry jam made with blackberries, blueberries and boysenberries the most this winter. Yum!
Our family seems to be eating all of the yellow green beans and the black eyed peas, along with the baby potatoes. Ready to get going on the garden.
Garlic Dill Pickles in January
We have been enjoying a deliciously tart rhubarb jam! It goes best with hearty homemade crackers and stinky stinky cheese!
The only thing I got canned this summer was 50 quarts of delicious peaches, so that would have to be what I’ve enjoyed most. They make a mean peach cobbler, as well. I have really been missing jam, though. Wish I had gotten some canned. There’s always next year! Thanks!
Dilly green tomatoes. Our tomatoes didn’t ripen well this year… so I ended up trying out a couple of pickled tomato recipes. Dilly green tomatoes was a big hit… especially with my Korean ESL student who dubbed it “Tomato Kimchi.” Makes the sadness of six gallons of green tomatoes palatable… literally!
My favorite preserve is Spicy Tomato Peach Jam. It is perfect on a grilled cheese sandwich, with sharp cheddar. Delicioso!
Strawberry jam! In fact, I just made some more two days ago from frozen berries because my family has eaten every last jar already.
I’m new to canning but it’s quickly become an obsession. So far, my favorite has been vanilla pear butter!
I opened up a jar of wild black raspberry jam (not to be confused with black berries…black raspberries are smaller and come into season much earlier, as my dad taught me oh so many years ago). As I enjoyed my piece of toast spread with the thick, sweet spread I was instantly taken back to summer, up to my ears (literally) in a berry patch, sweat dripping down my back, loving every minute of it! Those berries are hard to come by, so my tiny little batch of eight half pints has been savored all winter!
Oh yes, blackcaps! So tiny, so sweet, so precious! I have relatives who fight over our blackcap jam. Fortunately, it was an amazing year for blackcaps, we got almost 30 jars of jam this year. May you be so blessed next summer!
I’ve most enjoyed eating strawberry jam!
My sister gave me some quince jelly which I am currently enjoying on toast in the mornings!
Apple Butter! I could eat a whole jar in one day with a spoon.
Habanero pepper jelly has been my favorite preserve of the Winter!
I’ve got the last little bit of some sour cherry preserves in my fridge, and I’m trying not to mourn the fact that it will soon be gone …
Pomegranate Jelly (though I just made a lemon curd that’s pretty good too)
Candied Meyer Lemons! So yum!
Peaches in light syrup! Summer goodness.
My favorite preserve to open is a jar of apple pie filling that was made in the fall.
Being able to open a jar of peaches and have them taste exactly the same they did at their best is awesome! Even better is having organic baby food this winter that I can feed my daughter without worrying about some of the other so called ‘ingredients’ that make it into our food.
Last weekend I made tomato soup from my canned, roasted tomatoes. Loved it!
http://ramblingasusual.blogspot.com/2012/01/tangy-tomato-soup.html
Blackberry preserves. I am just starting out and would love to win.
I’ve been enjoying meyer lemon marmalade… it is heavenly!
I think that my favorite preserves are the shrubs I’ve made. (I canned some blackberry and strawberry) I love them in ginger ale, with or without alcohol.
Wild huckleberry preserve. It is from my first attempt at making preserves (and canning)
Most of my canning has been vegetables. Green beans are a family favorite. This year, I plan to expand my garden and canning with more sauces due to my daughter’s food restrictions.
I’ve been enjoying some plum chutney that was made with fresh picked plums from my parents’ tree.
What a great give away! My favorite preserve this winter has been marionberry jam. It’s super tasty and reminds me of summer.
Tangerine jelly on everything!
In my first attempt at home canning.. i made a HUGE batch of orange marmalade using oranges from me tree out back. Turned out pretty good… and I shared it with all my coworkers
I have never canned before, but want to. This kit will get me on my way to some yummy goodness
Raspberry preserves.
I’m loving applesauce, lately!
I absolutely am in love with Salsa.. It’s been a salsa winter..
Loquat jam
Just finished the last of the Chocolate Raspberry Jam which was awesome, can’t wait for raspberry season…
Spaghetti sauce…delicious.
this was my first year canning and my favourite was the celery relish recipe I rec’d from my sister-in-law’s mother. I knew she was a pro at this and that her recipes would be worthwhile.
Raspberry jelly!!
I made Blueberry Jelly and it did not set so we ended up with Syrup which is fine with the family, They enjoyed it either way. Thanks for your Giveaway, True American who care of others.
Homemade fruit leather (ok, not canning, um, home made jalpeno pickles?)
Wow, what an awesome assortment of prizes! My favorite thing this winter has been the apple cider jelly that I made for holiday gifts; the jars that I didn’t give away are nearly gone…
I love my tomato sauce. Yum!
I just started canning when someone posted on Craig’s List that they had a pear tree that needed picking. My housemate and I picked a washtub and five 5 gallon buckets of pears and I started a crash course in how to can. Ended up canning 20 quarts of pears, 12 half pints of pear cinnamon jam, 12 pints of pear cinnamon jam and 5 pints of pear vanilla butter. Talk about a crash course!!!! Since then I have canned satsumas and have in the freezer the ingredients to make satsuma jelly and lemon jelly. Yum!! Sure could use some help with the proper equipment to can instead of just making do with what is in the kitchen.
Sadly, I haven’t begun my canning adventure, so I have no favorites yet to enjoy. It’s something I’ve been meaning to start for a while and this looks like a great set to get me on my canning way!
Pasta sauce and pickles!
We have been enjoying the Fig/Ginger/Lemon preserves I made this Fall. It is the first time I’ve canned figs. It has been so yummy on everything!
Best things I preserved this season: applesauce, which my spouse loved; and the blueberry pie filling, which was out of this world!
delicious salsa
YOU CAN’T BEAT CANNED TOMATOES..lOVE THEM!!! SO VERSITILE..SOUPS,STEWS,AND ROASTS!!IT’S GREAT JUST TO ADD FRESH SUMMERTIME FLAVOR IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER!!!! THANKS SO MUCH FOR FINDING YOUR GIVA-AWAY- TREASURE!!!
I’m a preserving newbie. I am so proud of my stewed tomatoes.
The strawberry-vanilla jam I made has to be my favorite jam I’ve ever made. It’s SO good in yogurt!
Homemade applesauce.
Apple cranberry chutney!
Applesauce has been lovely this winter. Warm it up a little and it’s like eating pie from a bowl. Mom.
Best thing I preserved this season… or have enjoyed this winter Is the fig preserves that I made..they are absolutely delicious…especially on a warm buttery biscuit….drool!
I have to love the no sugar added blackberry jam we did this year.. 4 times!! my son kept picking berries and picking berries… it was the first thing he canned almost all by himself! (He’s 11 and a wiz in the kitchen). AND it was delicious too!!!
Haven’t made any preserves of my own (hence this being perfect for me, right?!) but I had some tasty pickles at dinner last night that were a perfect puckery bite of summer.
Pickled everything! I had a mild pickling obsession this past summer, but it has totally paid off the past few months.
What a neat little kit! This winter my favorite thing in a jar so far has been fig jam. Yummy!
We’ve enjoyed our Peach Cobbler Preserves the most.
I love opening a jar of tomato jam! The sweet smell of basil and tomato is intoxicating!
I always have strawberry jam/preserves around.
I made bread and butter pickles this past summer. My grandmother used to make these, and I have been missing them for many years. I shared several jars with my sister and she was over the moon. Can’t wait for cucumbers next summer. I’m going to can even more next time around.
Spaghetti Sauce!!
Apple butter, made from organic fruit, part of our CSA shares this fall – simmered in our slow-cooker overnight. Such a spicy, homey, lovely aroma – pleasantly tart and just sweet enough – with only a touch of brown sugar. Wonderful stuff.
My highbush cranberry jelly goes great with turkey.
My favorite has been the strawberry vanilla jam I made on a lazy Saturday afternoon back in May after being pleasantly surprised at how early Greensgrow had such delicious strawberries this year. Yum!
Spiced apple cranberry compote. So tasty!
Until today, I was loving my cinnamon fig jam with Greek yogurt, walnuts, sunflower seeds and pepitas. But today I made tangerine marmalade with lime juice and orange liqueur. It. Is. So. Good!
I’ve been enjoying the strawberry jam we canned in the summer
We benefited from a neighbor’s bumper crop of corn this summer & I made Corn Salsa for the first time. I was initially a bit suspicious that it wouldn’t be a fam fave, but I had SO MUCH CORN! Turns out, Corn Salsa & Black Beans wrapped in homemade tortillas is a special kind of savory heaven! This summer I’m gonna have to give a try to all of those canning recipes that I never thought would go over well…
So far, I’ve been most enjoying the dilly beans that my boyfriend canned! I could really eat the whole jar in one sitting.
apricot! i am making way more apricot jam next year, for sure! and NO blueberry jam, because who knew, i don’t enjoy it after all.
My friend Fran and I made preserves for gifts just before the holidays. We made some pear with ginger, pear with cranberries, and best of all (Fran’s idea) blood orange and Meyer lemon marmalade. That is the best canned item I ate this season. Fran used organic sugar and it was interesting how that seemed to allow the fruit flavors come through. The combination makes a beautiful color, a kind of rosy gold, not a dark amber, and the slightly perfume-y quality of the Meyer lemons withstood the process intact. Exquisite. And not to be seen in any store. Which is a great reason to can food: exciting flavors all your own.
Really enjoy your blog!
Could you please include the blood orange and meyer lemon marmalade recipe? This is the first year I have ever seen Meyer lemons at the supermarket here in Mass., and I would love to try this; it sounds delicious.
Thanks, Patricia
Apricot! but then, apricot is always my favorite. Wish they would grow well in WI.
We have really enjoyed the dilly beans and pepper rings and the apple jelly – perfect on corn bread!
I’ve been enjoying my plum jam the most. Though I do need to make another batch of lemon curd…
It’s a three-way tie: dilly beans, tomato jam, and canned tomatoes. Just today I met a veteran canner while shopping for old jars at an antique store, and we agreed that cracking open a jar in the middle of winter and tasting summer is worth all of the work that goes into putting up food.
Pear Butter is our current favorite. Thanks for the opportunity.
Ooooh, what a nice giveaway for the cold winter months! This weekend I made chocolate cake with peach honey preserves inside! It was delicious with vanilla frosting and coconut on top, so tropical!
Applesauce for sure
I enjoyed my wineberry and black raspberry.
i enjoyed my wineberry and black raspberry mix.
Boozy peaches. Last summer, my friend and I tried to preserve peaches in simple syrup, but they turned out to be disappointingly tasteless. (I guess our local peach crop was kind of blah this year.) So we broke out the bourbon and made a variation inspired by the Joy of Cooking! It has provided a nice boozy kick and summery delight for the winter.
jalapeno jelly with turkey, chicken or pork. Sooo good! Sweet, spicy and savory.
Couldn’t live without my blackberry preserves!
I’ve been having my canned peaches with breakfast every morning.
“and Canadian residents” – sweetest words I’ve read tonight. Our current favourite is a jam flop – some strawberry syrup that we’ve been putting everywhere and using in everything. Yum!
Just spiced right apples. It’s just like apple pie in a jar.
Crockpot applebutter.
It was so hot and dry in Austin that we only got one crop of figs from the tree out front this summer. I made a batch of fig and port jam from the precious crop. Such a wonderful taste of summer!
Without a doubt, my favorite has been the tomato salsa that I canned. The most useful, however, has perhaps been the hundreds of jars of green beans that I thought we might end up giving away. Little did I know that one of my dog’s prescriptions would be replaced with daily supplements of green beans!
I made some bacon jam for my husband – He’s a fan
my dill pickles, which came out especially well this year, and have been making the gift rounds with rave reviews!
I’ve loved opening up my pear jelly and apple jelly this winter. I can’t wait for canning season again!! So much fun!
Love your blog. Am relatively new to canning but am making up for lost time. Am canning a ginger syrup I made today after making some candied ginger! My favorite thing so far was making a kumquat marmalade. Yum!
My favorite is the batch of onions that I canned in the juice from canning beets. Yum!
I’ve really enjoyed my fermented hot pepper and garlic hot sauce and a new one this year, local peaches.
We have enjoyed canned dilly beans and many batches of frozen pesto, slow-roasted tomatoes, soups and sauces.
My bestie would love to start canning and this would help get rid of her excuses not to.
Garlic dill pickle spears from a friend! So amazingly delicious and all ingredients were from her vegetable garden the previous summer. Yum!
The strawberry jam I made with the kids last summer.
mmm…tomatoes! I do love opening a jar and being transported from January to August in an instant
wild blackberry jelly (from blackberries I picked myself at a nearby open space preserve).
It would be a tie, between the pear preserves that taste just like what my great-grandmother used to make, and tomato jam.
berry wine syrup
Do share the recipe!
I used to can with my mom as a girl but this was the first year I did any as an adult. I didn’t get much done however as I was busy with my new baby but the blackberry chambord jam was awesome! I love the small batch as it isnt as time consuming as a busy mom. I am looking forward to trying my hand at some marmalades!
Apricot Jam
I made a batch of peach butter over the summer and froze them. They’ve been my reminder of better times (nicer weather and fresh veggies from my CSA) so far this winter. I’ve only got two jars left!
I SO enjoyed a friend’s home-made salsa. I have not canned in years – and would love to again! Thanks for the opportunity!
eko
Spicy Pear Chutney… amazing on pork and with cheese.
We have been enjoying all the peach items I canned after bringing back two bushels from summer vacation in Myrtle Beach: canned peaches, peach nectar, raspberry-peach jam, and peach preserves.
lime marmalade!
I love the ginger/lemon syrup I made that was supposed to be jam.
Spiced peaches!
Meyer Lemon Vanilla Bean Marmalade – heavenly!!!
I’ve been loving the tomato sauce with basil that I canned….I even cook it down to make a pizza sauce for homemade pizzas.
fig preserves…yum yum yum
corn relish–mmmm!
I have most enjoyed rhubarb and fresh mint preserves that I purchased in France!
This being my first year to ever can anything but jam, I would say that I’ve thoroughly relished the tomato sauce I made. While I would tweak it next time, it was such an exciting and steamy venture that I will continue to do henceforth.
Kumquat marmalade has been my favorite preserve so far this year. I’ve never been a big fan of marmalade before, but this particular one has changed my mind.
This was our second year to have a graden. We are getting better at it and we really enjoyed watching things grow and eating them. Last weekend we (my husband & I) made our first orange/grapefruit marmalde and we also made cranberry burbon sauce. They both turned out great and we are anxious to try something else. We have blueberries in the freeze I think that is the next project.
The canned blackberry pie filling is heavenly on a cold winter day!
I have been enjoying applesauce and also my homemade chili. In fact I have been eating out of my pantry for a month now. Homemade chicken soup is another winner in my book.
Strawberry-rhubarb jam
Either my pear-vanilla jam, the pear-cardamom jam or the lemon-rosemary marmalade.
The peach saffron jam I made at the end of summer. It makes looking out at a sea of snow much easier.
I’ve been hitting the dill as well as bread and butter pickles lately, but for my sweet tooth I’d have to go with my strawberry banana jam.
My favorite this winter has been the super-spicy giardiniera!
This is so crazy! The preserve I’ve enjoyed eating most this winter is the one I’m eating now, strawberry-blackberry jam- on homemade country white bread. Its fresh, made yesterday using your Small Batch Strawberry-Vanilla recipe as a guide. I was searching for small batch jam recipes so I could prove to my husband that homemade jam is far better than storebought. The home canning discovery kit could come in handy since I ended up processing the half-pints by propping them on jar rings in my dutch oven.
Strawberry jam – it’s part of breakfast every day!
just plain pickles! I thought we’d never go through them all.
Raspberry Jam….
I just cracked open a jar of pickled jalapenos, a christmas gift from a friend. What a briny whiff of summer that was!
I would love to win, hands down favorite is simply tomatoes. No other taste from the market right now like that, but to me it is sunshine summer in my jars!
Does it count to say Blueberry/Raspberry jam? Yum!
Homemade pickled garlic.
I just finished my jar of the pear cinnamon jam I made for Christmas gifts. I had it just about every morning on greek yogurt with granola. So delicious.
My favorite is raspberry jam. I love raspberries and pick them every summer. I wish the season lasted longer here in WI.
I’ve enjoyed munching on my bread and butter pickles.
meyer lemon marmalade
definitely the balsamic fig jam with black pepper!
hot pepper jelly!
We’ve loved butternut squash soup made with home made canned chicken stock. Yum!
I have been enjoying pumpkin butter and frozen marionberries. Yum yum
I have really loved cooking with my tomatoes this winter!
I made sour cherry preserves: whole cherries, jam and jelly. So tasty!
Lovely lifter, I’ve been using one for quite a while that has wooden grippers for the jar, works, but not very effective, often slips. This one looks much more effective in gripping the neck of the jar. Enjoying making baby food for our grandson – been quite a while but good to return to.
My uncle gave me gifts from his garden for Christmas: three bean salad and tarragon vinegar. I ate the whole jar of bean salad by myself before Boxing Day was over!
Strawberry jam is probably the favorite. I can’t wait until we have more strawberries as it is our favorite time of year.
This year it was my spiced peach jam but I could fall in love with last year’s strawberry all over again if I could.
Thank you for a great giveaway!!!
Definitely applesauce. I canned 18 quarts of skins on applesauce at the end of October and we only have 1 jar left. Time to find more apple deals!
My brother made me some amazing sweet onion jam which I have been eating on toast.
Cranberry jam. I make it every year.
I am really LOVING the applesauce, or should I say my kids are YUM O
This year was the summer of pickling for us. We love our homemade relish!
My favorite jam this year is blackberry, but I did not make it myself. I have been circling, circling actual hardcore canning, but all I have made to date is various refrigerator pickles and whatnot (all of which have been hits, though!). A prize of advice and tools could be just the thing to kick me into action. My favorite canned things of all time are : 1) Mom’s most awesome salsa: a result of a ridiculously bumper crop of tomatoes and peppers; and 2) my grandmother’s fig preserves. These were sublime. Like so many things, I wished I had thought to ask about it when she was still alive.
Hot Pepper Jelly…yummmmmm
Strawberry preserves.
My favorite.
I am just starting to can. I miss my grandmothers plum jam.
I’ve been enjoying my pickled banana peppers on pizza this winter!
Completely enjoying the preserved vegetables from my parents’ garden!
I am loving the salsa from my garden tomatoes. Oh how I miss a red, juicy tomato. Would love to win.
Down to just one more can of tomato jam, made from your recipe. I’m savoring this one…
My pineapple salsa! Made a great Xmas gift – a little taste of summer
Applesauce made from apples I picked myself…. on LATKES.
Ooh, I could use a jar-lifter. This winter I’ve been loving my honeyed pear butter.
The pickled cranberries I learned about on this blog. They are a hit!
I haven’t been able to can yet this year (new baby, cross country move), but I’ve enjoyed the raspberry preserves I buy at the store and the boysenberry ones too.
I made garlic dill pickles for the first time this summer. And they’re just about finished.
I have been enjoying my Rosemary Peach Jam, It’s great on chicken
Three citrus marmalade and Blueberry-Lime Jam. Yum!
We loved all our pickled okra! We need to can more next year, because we ran out too soon!
I loved the apple cranberry jam I made for Christmas presents-turned out great!
I just love grabbing my jars of diced tomatoes and using them in everything. Tonight we even had taco salads with some drained ones on them…real tomato taste even when the store ones are all cardboard tasting! And the juice will go in soup tomorrow.
Heather
Tangerine syrup!
Pear butter is always our favorite
My favorite has been pumpkin honey butter!
@Michelle
Three things that I love, pumpkin and honey and butter. Please share your recipe.
I learned to can this summer with my mom and by far the best thing we canned and love is the tomato juice! Going to put in more tomatoes just for that!
Crab apple jelly made with crab apples from my Grandparent’s crab apple tree. I see that someone posted Meyer lemon marmalade above. Now I know what I’m going to do with the Meyer lemons I bought so impulsively.
It didn’t last very long, but I recently canned key lime curd from fresh key limes we picked ourselves when we were on vacation in FL. Back here in the freezing NE, eating a bit of the key lime pie we used it in just brought the warmth back to us!
Peach preserves!
Blueberry Jam! Makes a wonderful vinaigrette to spice up store bought salad until I can have garden fresh greens again.
Indian cucumber relish – we just mixed a jar of this with an equal amount of Greek yogurt. Instant cucumber raita – yay!
I just started canning and I have been making pickled jalapeños with carrots and onions.
Dieing to try your honey, lemon marmalade with fall ripened lemons left on my tree
Red currant jelly is my favorite. Sweet and tart all together just perfectly.
home grown tomatoes! yummmmm
Tomatoes, all of that hot summer sun goodness.
I have to say the best thing I have canned is my Dilly Beans.. This is the first year I started canning. So thank you everyone with sharing their knowledge with me. 2nd runner up would be Carrot Cake Jam…
I’ve loved busting out my pear halves in a light vanilla ginger syrup and making pie with an oatmeal crumb topping! Just tonight I enjoyed topping my pork meat loaf with the tomato butter recipe from this blog!
My great grandmother’s long lost, and only recently found peach conserve! Made with peaches from Palisade, Colorado, and LOTS of walnuts!
It was my first attempt at any kind of canning of jam!
Ginger marmalade! Only not anything I’d made. I just got canning stuff for Christmas and am eager to get started… I’ll be doing it outside on a propane stove because my stove is the wrong sort. I would love the Blue book to teach me things; I’ve heard it is great!
I am learning to dehydrate foods and recently dried bananas. I know it doesn’t count as ‘canning’, but I am planning to store them in jars next time! This time they are disappearing pretty quickly. I am planning my garden for this spring and hope to have lots of success so I can fill up jar after jar!
I am loving my Aunt’s Red Raspberry Freezer Jam that she gave me for Christmas!!! YUMMY!
I spent the summer farming and foraging and canning, and the best preserves I have eaten so far this winter were from a package mailed to me by my friends on the farm: apricot-vanilla jam.
Strawberry Jam (your small batch recipe, I think). Very fresh and YUM! Especially nice in the cold of winter.
Hope I win! Thanks for opening it up to Canada.
All the things my mom has pickled for us–this preggo can’t get enough!
Raspberry jam!
Pickled anything! Green beans, cukes, zukes, all of it!
Pickled peppers, tomato juice, and chicken quarters – in that order.
Chokecherry syrup… Hadn’t had it for years!
I have loved the spaghetti sauces that I have made! I really enjoy reading about all of the exotic combinations that Food in Jars and its’ readers come up with
It’s a tie. Loganberry jam and roasted tomatillo salsa.
I am new to canning, I own no supplies (yet)
I would love blackberry jam, or salsa verde……now I have to buy them.
Thanks for having this giveaway…I love to read Food in Jars!
Just getting to the pickles from this past summer, they were not good at first (I’m a beginner, just inherited my mother canning pot) but the great tips on the Facebook page toned them down quite a bit thanks for that! I haven’t been able to can at all this winter because I just as I was getting going had to relocate and have been kinda homeless or at least kitchenless. I do hope to have a house/kitchen again real soon to bust out the recipes and use up all that my new surroundings in Southern Ohio has to offer, I hear tell of a farmer’s market like so other so I am excited.
My truest friend Wanda made coarse applesauce, tasted like a crisp fall apple. I love that girl! She taught me to can when I was 21. God bless you Wanda and Larry Lapeere.
That secure-grip jar lifter looks intriguing – I gave up using the usual type and just use tongs because things would always shift around. I made some strawberry-rhubarb jam this fall which is lovely on toast on a winter’s morning.
I really liked the Favorit raspberry preserves.
My daughter and I found your blog while searching for information for a 4-H talk / demonstration. I’m introducing her to canning jams, jellies. We printed a few of your recipes and look forward to “mastering” the art of home canning.
I love blackberry jam!!
I love to eat frozen basil pesto. Second is my 5 citrus marmalade. Yum.
A tie between simple Strawberry Jam and Pineapple Pepper Jam. Planning a canning party for this spring and the goodies would make a great door prize
It’s a toss-up between the raspberry not-quite-jam and the old family recipe of thin sliced sweets I made for the first time in a lot of years.
I could never live without my canned pickles–I have made them every year since 1975.
I LOVE getting out fruit preserves, mostly peach, from the summer during winter so I can remember the sun.
I have loved eating the raspberry jam (BOY do we use up the homemade jam!) and tomato salsa. It is so satisfying to grow and can your own foods!
Lemon ginger marmalade is the favorite, closely followed by the honey lemon apple jam from this website. Gosh, it was good. Just had some tonight on homemade almond pound cake.
This was my first year canning. I’m enjoying the apple butter and also my tomato bounty! Will definitely can again! I’m hooked.
I am relatively new to canning and have found that jam has been my “gateway drug.” the preserve I preferr to preserve is Plum Rhubarb which we call plumbarb. Both come from our yard and are canned by my sons and me.
strawberry jam!
I’d have to say my lemon curd. It’s like sunshine in a jar!
pickled okra!
I’ve been using my heirloom tomato salsa (from Put ‘Em Up!) in this AMAZING black bean-tortilla soup: http://poppytalk.blogspot.com/2012/01/turning-up-heat-salsa-black-bean.html The salsa had turned out a bit sweet, so it’s the perfect way to use it up (i.e. gobble it up!)
I haven’t had the pleasure of doing my own canning yet, but I’ve greatly enjoyed some tasty raspberry jam this winter. I’m desperately hoping to get into canning but still need to acquire my supplies!
Balsamic Fig jam! A delicious gift that has inspired me to learn how to can.
peach melba jelly
I started canning 10 days ago. When the first batch went well, I made this jelly with my 4-H club. It’s a hit with everyone – less than a week later, the kids are eating jelly they made in any way they can think of, and the half pints are almost gone.
Calamondin marmalade! So delicious, I buy foods strictly as a vehicle for it! So pretty, we gave it for Christmas! So hot, I need new jar pincers to keep from scalding myself again!
My favorite preserve this winter is probably a small batch of spiced apple butter I made.
Raspberry cinnamon apple jam! I’m saving some for Valentine’s Day cookies, otherwise, it would have all been devoured months ago. I’m getting very excited for next season!
Definitely liked the Clementine Marmalade the best.
Blackberry syrup from vines in the backyard.
I am really enjoying adding the grapefruit syrup I canned last year to sparkling water with a couple tablespoons of half-and-half.
I and my family have most enjoyed our strawberry jam!!!
Definitely the strawberry jam
If I have to choose one I guess it would be my spaghetti sauce. mmmm………Nothing can compare to that fresh tomato taste in the dead of winter. It also looks really pretty in the jar
Strawberry Jam! Thanks for the giveaway!
No way I could pick just one, but a few favs off the top off my head are the Strawberry Balsamic w/pepper Jam, plum jam and I made ketchup for my first time last summer and that whole batch is almost gone, LOVED IT! oh AND my Lime Tomatillo salsa and spicy dill pickles were the BOMB lol
I have been loving having raspberry preserves.
Geez, I have been looking everywhere for this form. Anyway, the best thing that I have eaten that was canned was SWEET PICKLES with HORSERADISH. I have looked in every cookbook that I have and on-line and I cannot find a recipe. I am hoping the Ball book will have a recipe for that. Thanks
My wife made some killer raspberry jalapeno jam
Green tomato preserves! Sweet and spicy winter goodness with just a hint of summer past. This girl has to get her tomato fix even when there’s snow on the ground!
That is a tough one…Like trying to pick your favorite child. They all have their moments when they bring you joy. Most recently it was some Jack Daniels Hot Pepper Butter on pretzels or was it the hot pepper jelly with cream cheese on a bagel the week before…
i would have loved to enjoy some fresh jam or jelly or even salsa this winter with you guys…..but alas i could not because i haven’t got the equipment to do so. i would love to win this giveaway so i can get started on learning how. i am a pastry chef and i have never made jelly. i feel incomplete.
What an awesome giveaway. I’ve been canning for about 25 years and funny enough, I’ve never owned a jar lifter or a Ball Canning book.. until this past month.
I got a jar lifter from Amazon and I just received a 1938 Ball Blue Book that I won on eBay.. Im loving that!
Whats my favorite? Hard to say… Turkey veg soup, green beans with new potatoes? I think its the Green Tomato Salsa.. though everyone else in the world loves my apple butter..
Yum… I want everyone’s recipes.. lol
I would have to say the canned peaches. No matter what I can, there is something about fresh canned peaches in the bitter cold of January! My son absolutely loves them as well!
My favorite from the summer is the Strawberry Vanilla… but I want to try the Kumquat Marmalade in last weeks post….
Would love to pass on new tools to one of my new canning students! Best fun this winter, so far, has been making my own recipe for Christmas jam with 4 red berries: red raspberries, bing cherries, strawberries, and cranberries. Amazing flavor as did very little sugar and let the berries shine through!
I made pear butter this year and its really great. I also love the peach jam that I put up.
Roasted tomato sauce reminds me of September warmth and sunshine.
Blueberry jam has really brightened the mornings around here!
As a Hawaii resident, I am enjoying my Triple P preserves: pineapple, papaya, and passion fruit!
Pepper preserves and enjoying it with friends.
Pear Vanilla Jam — so fresh tasting on yogurt!
I canned by myself for the first time this fall, and I especially enjoy my raspberry jam.
The strawberry peach preserve has been the best so far!
Some delicious blk berry jelly.
I love our raspberry jam!!
My apple butter is heavenly.
I’m running out of Mango Ginger Preserves, so I need to get on the “ball” and make some more.
My peach butter! It was one of my first truly successful canning ventures; I even gave some jars away as Christmas presents and they were a hit!!
It’s a tie between the sweet, fresh taste of summer in the Plum Jam I made in late July and the Blackberry Cardamom Jam I made last week from the single quart of blackberries I was able to find locally and afford this past summer. At $6 a quart and a season that seems to only be about three days long, I’m highly cherishing them through this odd winter we’re having!
Boozy Bacon Jam.
It is a combination of 2 recipes and it is the most delicious on crackers with some cheese.
We are enjoying every jar of spaghetti sauce, salsa and pizza sauce that we use this winter. We had the blight for the previous 2 seasons and we lost all of our tomatoes both years. It is funny how you don’t miss something until it is taken away for so long!!
I think the most popular preserve with family and friends has been the Spicy Blueberry Jam (with extra ginger). In my home, we have most enjoyed our canned tomato and basil sauce.
I’ve enjoyed my homemade pickle relish so much this year, Ohhh, and my cranberry jam! YUMMM!!
Tomato Jam – my sister-in-law and I keep trying to find something that doesn’t taste that much better with it, so far nothing doesn’t benefit from a dollop of tomato jam on top! My favorite thing to eat with it though is poached eggs – definately jamolicious!
My favorite this winter is Tomato Jam, from home grown tomatoes, love it with cheese!
I have enjoyed meals-in-a-jar. Lately it’s been Brunswick Stew, and we just canned chili last night.
Cranberry marmalade is the greatest
Candied jalepenos!
That lifter looks so much better than mine…best jam so far this winter is Katie P’s pear/rosemary – so yummy!
Oh a delicious jam my daughter made for us with figs, assorted berries, and oranges
(Thanks honey) and thank you for the giveaway! 
Peach. It always makes me think of summer.
Beet Jam it’s. So beautiful and delicious on toast spread with ricotta.
cowboy candy!
Salsa verde made with home-grown tomatillos and cinnamon spiced apple slices made with hot cinnamon candies. Yum, yum.
Oh, I would so love to win these! Thanks for the chance. This winter, I have really been enjoying the strawberry jam my guy and I made this past summer.
Raspberry jam. No question.
Ooooh, those would be nice to have!
I think so far this “winter” (I live in Florida and it really doesn’t feel like winter), is a spiced pear butter. While making large batches of apple butter in my crock pot, I ran up to the grocery store to find bags of 4lbs of pears for only $0.99. Like a crazy person, I grabbed 10 bags. I peeled and cored them, dropped them into the crock pots and started adding spices and let it cook down over night. Yummy! Having this has even gotten me to lay off adding butter to my toast.
apricot jam! delish.
It’s been nice to open up a jar of cinnamon plum jam in the winter! I’ve also been enjoying my pear-cranberry-cardamom jam.
Beet Relish!
Hot Pepper Jelly, on crackers with cream cheese. Thanks for the contest!
It would have to be salsa!
I am still new to this, so I’ve only canned tomatoes and applesauce. The applesauce was so yummy and so handy to have on hand when a meal needs just a little something to round it out. Also, I made the roasted roma tomatoes so often that my husband bought me an Excalibur food dehydrator for Christmas. My last favorite thing I’ve made from your site is the lemon salt. I tried it plain at first, but have started to add rosemary and thyme from my garden as well. It is so yummy! I use it on almost anything I would use regular salt for…roasted vegetables, meats and super delish in mashed potatoes!
We wanted to start canning this summer…..our garden did not cooperate. This giveaway will help to get us started. Thanks. P.S. A friend of ours keeps us supplied with her canned hot peppers. Now we can make our own.
This was my first year pickling fruit. The jars of pickled peaches are a (delicious) revelation each time I open them.
Dilly Beans, I love anything pickled!!
My freezer strawberry jam.
Lots of competition for favorites: crunchy dill pickles, spicy pear pickles, blackberry jelly, peach preserves, and this year I canned our fresh pecans for the first time– but can’t leave out good old canned homegown Georgia tomatoes!
My favorite is my homemade peach butter. It’s a nice reminder of summertime in the middle of winter.
Drunk Cherries & Chocolate Jam
It’s a toss between pickled pears, spiced ginger pear mincemeat pies, pear sauce and vanilla pear jam. Can you tell what the abundance was this year?!
It’s a tie between my home-grown tomato sauce, and blackberry jam. Simple, but so so good!!
Orange marmalade.
I’ve been getting rave reviews on my blueberry jam!
I have really enjoyed the peaches and green beans I’ve canned, its like a little taste of summer.
My dad just made some delicious persimmon jam. It was amazing on fresh baked fig & walnut bread!
I am an absolute beginner – so needless to say my favorite thing so far has been my peach freezer jam – brings back the summer! Definitely lovely with this cold weather! (….and I’ll keep my fingers crossed!!)
I am really enjoying the spicy salsa I made this summer during the winter months! It is so fresh…makes me miss the summer time!
The best preserve I’ve had this winter is an apple butter spread I made this fall.
Tomato Jam!
Quince butter and pesto. Both from loving Grandmothers (which means they taste waaay better)
My favorite has been my tomato jam (although I do really love my bloody mary mix!)
The mango chutney! All tropical with a hint of spice….bring on the curry & thanks for all your amazing recipes.
I haven’t canned anything yet, but want to try! My first experiment next summer will be canned crushed tomatoes. This is our first winter of eating as locally as possible and I really miss tomatoes!
The children are plowing through the applesauce: our friends and those we’ve invited over for parties can’t get enough of my carrot cake jam (with cream cheese, spread on water crackers). I’m getting hungry for some just typing this!
Smoking Strawberry (jam with chipotle), recipe from Tigress in a Jam. Yum.
It’s a tie between tomato jam and fig preserves made from the figs off of my mother’s fig tree.
My dad just built me a canning kitchen in his basement…I can’t wait to get started canning and I’m dying to have pear butter!
Homemade pickles, especially once I realized that do well being beer battered and fried.
tomatoes. I wasn’t able to put up anywhere close to the previous summer as I bought a flat of mislabled plum tomatoes that turned out to be cherrie tomatoes. So I’m hoping for a much better harvest in the coming season. Last season I was eating garden tomatoes up until February! This year it was December. thanks for the site, I get lots of great information.
I am quite interested in Jeff’s beets above (somewhere) sounds amazing. However, we enjoyed my Farm Style Strawberry Jam…..delicious to the max!
Lylah from The Simple Farm
strawberry jam!
Mixed Berry ~ brings me back to summer
Tomatoes, definitely.
Spiced plum chutney. I know this is a NorthAmerican giveaway, so if I do win, I am nominating my friend Jane in Canada to receive the prize! [she can can in Canada, but I do not know if she can can-can!]
blessings x
We have enjoyed tomato sauce, salsa, apple sauce, and pears, all fresh from our own tree’s and plants. What a great way to have them all on hand and not to run to the store, these are more tasty. I also gave some away to some friends.
Thanks for your Food In Jars help.
I have enjoyed eating some green tomato, orange jam that I made in the late summer.
I’ve been eating chutney almost every day – just opened a jar of peach-ginger.
It’s a tie between my cherry lime rickey jam, and the fruited gazpacho soup.
My friends who never had the pleasure of drinking a fresh cherry lime rickey when growing up were blown away by the taste of the jam. And other friends basically licked their bowls when the very last jar of the fruited gazpacho was served.
Strawberry jam and almond butter.
Salsa! It’s like summer in a jar! <3
We have enjoyed the peach chutney the most! It makes a ho-hum sandwich sing, or any rice dish. But we are eating far more of regular canned local peaches and applesauce, which are both so good that it doesn’t even compare to store bought, even the very best brands packaged in glass jars. Best of all is that I know what is in that jar, and what is not in that jar.
Tomatoes! Nothing better than opening a jar in the winter. It always makes me smile.
Peppers!
My favorite canned good is cinnamon cucumbers, I could eat the whole jar! I’ve never made them but will be trying my hand at canning all types of veggies this summer and that book would be the perfect sidekick!! I’ve been looking at it for a couple months and it seems like one of the best on the market! I’ll be about 8 months preggo around canning time but I know the reward will be great when winter rolls around!
This past year was my first canning season and I went a little jam crazy lol. I gave away some for Christmas but have been enjoying the rest myself. The best has been the raspberry jam as well as both the apple and pear butters. I stuck to mostly jams, applesauce, and other fruits my first year but hope to expand now and venture into more vegetables like tomatoes, okra, green beans, etc. That jar lifter looks a lot more robust than the Ball one I got a few months ago. The plastic ends on mine melted, deformed, and fell off the metal frame the first batch I used them. This version looks a lot better- hope I win!
Ah…so far the favourite is your Blueberry Butter…and the favourite of my friends who received it for Christmas…running a close second to Spicy Blueberry Jam!
Corn, corn, corn! I canned 113 pints of corn in August…thank goodness…because I discovered: Corn Pudding! Yummy! I just love opening up those jars and whipping up this wonderful side-dish I discovered on a recent visit to North Carolina!
Home made fig preserves!
My great-grandfather’s recipe, pear honey preserves on toast!
I have actually never canned myself before but have been wanted to get into it so badly for a couple of years now. We have been enjoying some homemade bought chipotle-raspberry jam on scones. Made my a woman locally we buy her preserves every spring. Mmmmm. Wish I could make my own!
so much enjoyment from preserving your own food. I love seeing the shelves stocked up after each canning
I would love to be picked for this giveaway. My family and I are really getting into sustainable living and preserving as much food as possible. I am definitely no expert but really trying to learn as much as possible on the subject. I just finished my last jar of strawberry rhubarb jam
Sooo satisfying in the middle of winter. Brings back the spring when I was canning it from freshly picked garden goodies.
Plain old strawberry jam. It tastes like summers with my grandmother. (And is super stirred into homemade yogurt…)
I can’t eat enough of peach preserves this winter! I have them with everything. Last night, I had them with biscuits and beef stew. Sweet and Savory!
I still use vanilla syrup at least 2x per week! I ordered the bulk vanilla like you suggested and now when I run low, I just make some more. I like to stir it into plain greek yogurt…its BETTER than ice cream!!
Last summer was my first year growing a garden and canning! Your blog is wonderful and has greatly helped me! I’m really enjoying the pickles I made in August. They are very tasty!
I started ordering seeds for my garden last weekend. I can’t wait for spring and have high hopes to preserve as much as possible.
kumquat marmalade!
this year i tried spiced tomato jam and it was a hit!
Definitely the strawberry jam. Yum!
garlic dill pickles. made ‘em way too strong (should have substituted water for some of the vinegar) last summer. but now they’re spicy and really nice.
My favorite might be the grape jam I made for the first time. Love it on fresh baked bread. My kids are crazy about our apple sauce though – and its awesome to be able to put some in lunches packed for school each day.
My favorite is strawberry jam. It’s so delicious, and I program my bread machine to heat and stir so it’s incredibly easy. Thanks for the giveaway!
By far the Pear and Pumpkin Ale preserves! The whole family loves them especially on waffles.
Pickles! My entire family loves them. In fact we are down to one jar.
Been loving the tomato jam on bacon & egg or smoked turkey sandwiches. Has anyone used that new style lifter? Is it really long enough?
This winter I’ve been enjoying some raspberry jam mixed into homemade Greek-style yogurt.
I love any jam- pickle-sauce.
So glad I just discovered “Food in Jars”! I was looking for instructions on re-making marmalade.
So far my favorite is a jam I don’t eat. I don’t care for pears (it’s a texture thing). My husband and daughter, however, inhaled all the pear vanilla jam I made this fall. I have more pears ready to go in the freezer & it would be lovely to get them into jars with some fresh equipment!
I’ve just about given away everything I put up this summer and fall, but my blueberry-lemon jam (which turned out to be more of a syrup) is a huge hit. My daughter helped with peach preserves in the early fall and intimated that for her birthday in May, she’d like canning equipment, so this give-away is PEFECT! Here’s to preserving a newbie canner!!!
Spicy Salsa!
Garlic scape pesto (from the freezer)!
my home canned pickled beets along with local chevre on a salad dressed with orange vinaigrette & topped with crumbled hard boiled egg & toasted pecans…yum!
I have enjoyed the pear chutney
My mother sent me some Raspberry Amaretto jam that is so good. My son and I have been making toast with jelly like crazy.
I made a apple cinnamon pear sauce. It was the first one I ever made!
We have really been enjoying spoonfuls of jam in hot oatmeal. A favorite is also the watermelon jelly we made from your recipe.
I have been enjoying the apple butter we made last year! Thank you for the giveaway!
Just finished off a jar of peach preserves given to us from a neighbor. Have a jar of homemade apricot preserves just waiting to be opened.
I have really enjoyed my Ruby Red Grapefruit Marmalade. I’m trying to get through some of last winter’s canning projects – so I have some available jars (and hopefully a jar lifter & new recipe book!).
Best so far? Spiced pear butter, an experiment, and a winner. Yum!
I have most enjoyed Apple Butter this year!
http://www.mrsgardengirl.blogspot.com/2011/11/all-day-apple-butter.html
Yum-O!
We have enjoyed strawberrry jam and salsa. I have just done a little canning but these items would help get us going this coming summer! Can’t wait.
Our most delictable canned treat this winter is the hot pepper jelly! Tastes like summer in a jar on a fresh burger!
Green tomato pickles, yum!
hmmm, i think my roasted tomatoes are my fave so far. thanks for the giveaway!
We have enjoyed the green beans I put up. It was nice to have a piece of our garden at Christmas. Thanks for the giveaway!
Pear Vanilla Jam! I had to make it with frozen pears from our tree after we ate through our bounty! SO good! The frozen pears didn’t work out as well, so much liquid, I’ll make some changes if I use frozen pears again:)
We have a hard working pear tree in our back yard. I made some outstanding pear cherry chutney this fall that’s making a tough winter much easier!
I’m determined to make this my preserving year! Haven’t canned yet, but going to start with strawberries and work my way up! Thanks for the opportunity
We have been eating blackberry jam and apple butter. Look foward to doing a lot more this year!
My favorites this winter have been your italian plum and star anise jam as well as the pear cardamom jam. They are both perfectly sweet and spicy and taste equally as good with a cup of coffee as with a nice glass of wine.
My favorite is the pear ginger jam my sister makes!
I’ve most enjoyed eating my cranberry apple butter with biscuits!
Lovin’ the peach jam
I have been using organic apples, organic cranberries, lemon juice and peel with minimal sugar to make the most wonderful Apple-Cranberry Preserves. Varying amounts of cranberries give it a different texture and taste! The best part is that if you under cook a small batch, you have lovely apple-cranberry sauce. It is a win-win situation.
By far, the strawberry preserves I made from the local farm here!!!
Boysenberry jam in the dead of winter is the best reminder that summer is indeed coming again. Boysenberry jam also makes me think of going to Knott’s Berry Farm in Orange County, California as a child and eating all of the Boysenberry Jam that I could! A great memory on a snowy day in Idaho!
Cherry made from the cherries my 7 yr old grand daughter picked from the family tree.
Fig and merlot
Pear-Apple Butter on homemade bread — heavenly!!
Gonna go basic — the tomatoes. Especially this month — I broke my foot on New Year’s Eve, and friends have been coming by to help with the cooking (and I’ve been making big pots of soup on the good days so I can just reheat single bowls on other days), and I’ve used a couple of jars of the tomatoes and even a pint of tomato juice (when I learned that okra and collard greens have lots of calcium, that just became an excuse for gumbo).
My favorite has been the mixed berry jam I made on the fly near the end of summer. It turned out *much* better than the strawberry.
It is a tie between strawberry balsemic preserves and blackberry vanilla syrup. I am out of both for the year!
My friend gave me some sour cherry preserve that is AWESOME! I’m itching to start canning!
I’m in love with my cranberry jam … but I haven’t tried my honey spiced nectarines yet!
I made a huge batch of apple butter a few months back and I’m yet to get sick of it!!
I love apricot preserves. I am gearing myself up to make some of my own this year!
Strawberry jam!
asian pear vanilla clove jam. i’m tempted to steal it back from everyone i gave it to for christmas.
Roasted tomatoes
Cranberry Conserve!
I’ve really enjoyed my salted caramel pear jam!
I still love blueberry jam. A simple, yet delicious classic.
I just made pickled carrots which are awesome. Been enjoying pickled pears this year as well.
Any and all forms of preserved sour cherries. They are my favorite.
Marinated red peppers have been the best!
Preserves are like whispers, canning is like telling secrets. Secrets that somehow transcend time. I still have a few pickled ramps with cardamom I try and eat them just one at a time. I enjoy getting home from the cold and knowing I can open that little jar of ramp secrets.
My parents have a neighbor who makes amazing pickled but sweet jalapeño slices with cranberries. One of my favorite Austin-ish things to give people when they visit.
blackberry preserves. mmmm.
We love our Apple Butter!
One thing, among many, I’ve enjoyed is something I tried for the first time this past summer…………. Habanero Apricot Jelly. It is SO good when spread over cream cheese and eaten with crackers. Will definitely add this to my list of things to can in 2012.
Apricot jalapeno – on everything! Killer grilled goat cheese and apricot jalapeno jam on wheat sourdough, on cornbread muffins, mixed with a little wine as a sauce for chicken and pork. Must triple my batch next year!
tomato jam!
Kumquat Marmalade. Still waiting for this years crop of kumquats to ripen. It reminds me of a favorite grumpy uncle and is always so bright and cheerful!
bread and butter pickles!!
I put up a ton of peaches grown by an old family friend, and they’ve been finding their way into smoothies and muffins and pies, as well as bowls, all by themselves.
I love that you keep jars under the couch.
So far, the best has been a simple pepper jam. Delicious with chevre and homemade bread. mmmmmm!
Aside from putting spiced pecans in a jar, I have not yet canned anything! I am just learning about canning – mostly through this blog – and it’s time to finally give it a try. Thanks for all of your ideas and information!
I’ve enjoyed my Raspberry preserves. Thank you for your blog. I get many ideas from it.
Salsa and pickles
All time fav– apple butter on english muffins!
Sour Cherry Jam is my favorite,but I can only get it at specialty stores because it isn’t as common in the US as it was in Germany while growing up
Morning Marissa, goodness this is a popular post. I Loved your three citrus marmalade! It is keeping the scurvy at bay on our little sustainable farm in the MidWest. Not a lot of food within 100 miles except in my larder! Have fun.. c
My favorite so far is definitely ginger-infused cran-apple jelly!
I started canning last summer and have used only your recipes. Our favorite this winter is the Red Pear and Lavender Jam. It is amazing on toast, PB&J, pancakes and on pork chops. YUM!!!
My favorite surprise has been my pickles! This was my first year trying my hand at them and they are so delicious! They will definitely become a regular addition to my fall canning.
jalapeno jam
I love homemade jam with peanut butter on a rice cake
I made 4 batches of your sour cherry jam recipe and have been greedily eating it since July.
Peaches for sure, served with french toast!
The blueberry jam we put up in the summer!
i made a batch of corn relish this summer. so yummy! hope to win
Cherry Amaretto jam, of which I only have one jar left!! (Sigh)
Definitely the pear jam I made from the pears that finally arrived on our tree. It is like summer in a jar!
Kiwi, far and away they are my favorites…this winter -smile-.
so hard to choose… concord grape jam? or whole tomatoes?? This was my first year canning anything – every jar we open is a treat!
Rasberry-blueberry jam
My father loves picking berrys and he always share some of is wild strawberry jam.
I’ve most enjoyed the chicken broth I canned from the Thanksgiving turkey carcass. I use it alot for a variety of recipes-sauces, soups, etc.-and it’s not laded with salt like the commercially canned varieties (even the low-sodium ones).
Cranberry sauce with pomegranate juice (great on ice cream) and fresh blackberry jam on homemade bread hot out of the oven & off the stove
Simple strawberry preserves – perfect on toast with a cup of hot tea!!
We have been eating Tomato sauce,Peach jam and picked greenbeans
My homemade salsa – tastes like the garden in a jar! And my sour cherry preserves – I may have to begin hoarding as I only have two jars left.
My latest project was orange-grapefruit-ginger marmalade! Yum!
I’ve been mostly enjoying the last of pickled asparagus and for a little sweetness cranberry sauce.
I’ve been enjoying the “peach-berry” jam I made this summer. I love your blog and the inspiration I get for putting more food in jars. Thanks!
I’ve been loving my Balaton cherry-almond jam. Loving your blog–and I’ll be anxious to get my hands on a copy of your book soon!
My favourite has been the Wild Apple Spiced Jelly I made just a little while ago. There are tonnes of wild apple trees in the backyard and, while they’re no good for snacking (much too tart and buggy), they make absolutely phenomenal cooked-apple-anything. The jelly is closely followed by apple sauce made from the leftovers. Mmmmmm.
Redcurrant Jelly!
I am 65 and have never canned anything. I was given a canning pot last year and some jars but never got up the nerve to try it. All my friends seem to really be into it so I’m going to try it next year.
I have been really enjoying the plum jam a good friend gave me.
Blueberries are so abundant (and delicious!) here during the summer, so cracking open a jar of blueberry jam always reminds me of warmer, brighter days–definitely a necessity now that we’re in the midst of a cold snap!
Italian pasta sauce and pasta; peach preserves.
strawberry jam
preserved lemons in Moroccan food and preserved apricots with curry chicken.
I have been loving my apple butter in the morning and just this weekend I made a pork roast and added a big spoonfull of cranberry apple chutney to the plate. It reminded me of Thanksgiving all over again!
Honestly, the pickles. Oh the pickles.
Hands down, it has to be the luscious peach preserves that I made this summer at the height of peach season – nothing beats a SC peach, not even one from georgia!
Blueberry Jam that my kids and I pick every June
My most favorite preserve I made was this fall in the Crock Pot – Pumpkin Butter! So easy & so yummy!
Blueberry lime jam has been the most enjoyed. Its like summer in a jar.
Clementine Marmalade!
So far its been anything marmalade. Although I’ve yet to crack open my watermelon pickles and I just put up some grenadine last week.
super – simple but lemon curd & pickled brussel sprouts!!
I think the preserve I’m enjoying most this winter is zucchini relish…excellent on everything from sandwiches to pancakes with jetost!
We only put up a few things last year ie tomatoes, salsa & peaches. I have been pretty stingy with letting anyone eat them so far. LOL we have gotten out a few jars of salsa but with only 3 jars left I may make them wait awhile to get any more out!
We had lovely pickled garlic this year!
Pumpkin butter!
The only preserving I did this year was a batch of my world famous apple butter. At least it’s famous in the little world that revolves around me and my family. I love it on toast or straight from a spoon.
Peach sauce and pear chutney!
Raspberry Jam. It’s like summer in a jar.
Damson plum jam. Just had some this morning and it was wonderful!
My mom’s blackberry jelly by far!
I adored my fridge pickled pattypans, which lasted into fall and had intensified in flavor every time I opened them. Plus the 20-or-so pounds of slicing cuked I turned into garlic pickles — we haven’t had to shop for them since July, and I’ve still got at least 15 pints left.
It would have to be my strawberry, kiwi, banana jelly. Really reminds me of summer.
Without a doubt, this Parsi tomato chutney is getting us through the winter. It’s outstanding! I love it on eggs, sandwiches, even basmati rice or toast. The original recipe is from Niloufer Ichaporia King’s My Bombay Kitchen, which is a lovely cookbook, but I made it from this post (reducing the sugar slightly and the chile by a lot) and it will be part of my annual must-cans going forward!
http://www.travelerslunchbox.com/journal/2010/10/26/a-chutney-for-all-seasons.html
Home-canned tomatoes from August mean fresh and delicious homemade pasta sauce in January!
Wine herb jelly with fresh sage, rosemary and thyme
I want to learn to can SSSOOO bad! It is definitely on my to-do list! I love making homemade salsa and it is a goal of mine this year to learn to can it!
The tomatoes which you taught me how to prepare. we love you for it !
put up 8 bushel of tomatoes for my family. They love them !
did early and late harvest here in NC
I am enjoying my canned green beans and pickled beets:-) I learned to can from my mamaw and nothing compares to the taste! There are so many things that you can enjoy year-round.
Apple Pear Chutney…so good I eat straight out of the jar !
We enjoyed some strawberry jam that we received as a Christmas gift… so good, it’s already gone!
I love the shrubs I made! They’re a taste of summer now that it’s cold and dark.
My mother in law’s seedless raspberry jam…. mmmm.
I’ve enjoyed eating Hot Pepper Jelly just last night with cream cheese and crackers. My friend actually made this patch. So delish!!
Strawberry rhubarb jam is always a favorite for me. It reminds me of summer.
I’ve been enjoying the apple butter that I made in October. It’s great on my homemade bread!
Apple butter :d
We’ve been loving our Strawberry Freezer Jam!
Last summer was my first time canning anything. I did a lot of jams and jellies but I think my favorite thing to pull off the shelf now is the canned tomato items: whole tomatoes, tomato sauce, herbed tomato sauce, Mexican tomato sauce. So versatile!
I’m not sure it counts as a preserve, but what I enjoyed pulling out the most was a little container of frozen slow roasted cherry tomatoes. I used your Slow Roasted Grape tomato “directions” and ate an embarrasing amount right off the pan – they are amazing!! I can’t wait for more tomatoes this year. From a jar, my favorite would be plum chipotle sauce.
I’m loving a blueberry lemon marmalade! Sweet and tangy.
My family has enjoyed my blackberry jelly this winter. I’ve made jam in the past (strawberry, grape, raspberry) but this has been my first attempt at jelly. It wasn’t quite as difficult as I expected!
Grapefruit marmelade! A wonderful way to preserve the citrus my fiance brought up from Florida this winter.
I pulled some thyme pesto outa the freezer this past week and enjoyed it completely. How long until summer?
my cinnamon applesauce has been great with potato pancakes and a little sour cream
I’m in! My favorite is the first thing I ever canned – jam. I have a jar of cranberry-raspberry in the refrigerator right now. Somehow, it takes a PBJ to another level.
My best preserve this winter is the Maine Blueberry Ginger that I made over the summer. I drove from Maine home to NJ with 7 quarts of tiny blueberries in my trunk and immediately whipped up 3 or 4 varieties of jam, but the ginger blue is my favorite. Not only is it delicious, but it’s full of happy memories in every bite.
My favorite preserve to enjoy this winter is Tomato Jam… mmm a bit of flavorful summer on my grilled cheese and bacon sandwich! I would love to win this for a friend who has just become interested in canning.
Ginger-Peach Preserves. Yum!
I’ve greatly enjoyed eating my strawberry rhubarb preserves over the winter. I even put a tablespoon over my oatmeal. Love your blog and thanks for the awesome giveaway!
The completely plain peach preserves on whole wheat toast in the morning.
It is like eating summer.
I close my eyes and pretend it isn’t nasty cold outside!
Tory in D.C. (where it is raining!)
I’m so happy with how my strawberry jam turned out this year-it’s like sunshine in a jar!
Blueberry jam, made from wild blueberries picked on an island in a lake in Maine — heavenly taste and heavenly memories…
A white peach sauce preserved in 1/2 pt. jars is something I have savored during the winter. Most recently, I have made use of qt. jars for infused oils.
I am TOTALLY new to the world of canning; so the only thing I’ve been enjoying is the only thing I’ve preserved – orange marmalade. Great giveaway!
My blackraspberry preserves. I don’t usually have too many but for some reason I have lots on hand -makes that peanut butter sandwich that much better in the morning.
I have so enjoyed the ginger/green tomato preserves this winter. I made them for giving away, but I have to admit, I’ve eaten so much of it! It is so good on a cracker with cheese. Mmmmm…
Raspberry jam I made up at my sister’s house, where the REALLY HUGE raspberries grow! Dang fine stuff. Oh, and the Dark and Stormy Jam I kinda made up. Pears and Ginger and Krakken, OH MY!
Applesauce from the store can never taste as good as the sauce I make at home each fall.
I’d say it’s a toss up between the diced tomatoes and the peach jam. Summer in a jar!
The wild grape jelly I made from wild grapes my DH discovered growing up in the woods is my fave. Delicious on toasted home made whole wheat bread.
How many jars I’ve dropped with tongs – but not the right tongs. I mean, I’ve meant to buy them – I have. But it’s just. Never. Happened. So now is the time
Also – I love your blog. Thank you for your inspiration!
Oh! My favorite winter can – HAD to be the curried ketchup. It was amazing and worth every tomato splatter!
I did my very 1st canning or whatever you call it in December. I made huckleberry jam for my family….they loved it
Lauren Powell’s lemon marmalade
Vanilla bourbon peach preserves- can’t get enough!
Pickled Three Bean Salad from the Ball Home Preserving book.
Ooooh….that’s a nice looking jar lifter!
I think my favorite would have to be a tie between plum jam and ginger-apricot butter.
Mmmmmm!
Peach and almond conserve, especially on warmed brie. Delicious!!
orange creamsicle jelly– so yummy on vanilla cheesecake!
Waffles with ginger syrup… ^_^
I really want to try canning this year, and was thinking of getting that Ball kit! It looks perfect for me.
I can’t pick just one – today, I have loved the plain apricot jam, the quince jelly, and the pickles…
Royal Blenheim Apricot Jam – summer in a jar!
Strawberry Rhubarb jam and garlic dill pickles made by some Nuns in my town–delicious!!!
i can all summer , putting up things from our garden. so would love that
For me- violet jelly! My kiddies – the pickled okra! Thanks for the giveaway!
We made some amazing raspberry/strawberry jam straight out of our garden. So good.
strawberry rhubarb jam!
I had a conversation literally one minute before I opened this blog post – asked him about canning, because I’m pretty sure his mom knows how. It’s a skill I’d like to learn. I’m in the process of building some raised garden beds and am hoping for some bounty in the spring and summer.
blackberry jelly – yum yum!
I am almost out of the yummy strawberry jam made in a marathon jam session. Good stuff.
Cardamom spiced pear butter! (Although, my peppy dilly beans are a close second…)
I bookmarked your blog so I can try out some of your recipes after I get a starter kit. I wanted to make my own Pepper Jelly, so I am going to teach myself how to can soon.
Nectarine vanilla bean jelly!
Okay okay. Tough to pick one. But, I’m going to have to say…Carambola Marmajam, or Starfruit Jamalade. I’ve labeled it both ways. Awesome incredible floweryfruity mmm.
(And, I can’t help it, our blackberries make the richest blackberry jam I have ever tasted, so I have to mention it.
I made strawberry jam with the strawberries i grew from the garden. Eating the jam totally reminds me of summer.
This winter, I have finally learned to like some pickled items. Carrots, beans, and other veggies are all now in regular rotation on my winter plates. It only took 31 years!
I think the one item that truly tops my list of winter preserves would be the Vanilla-Earl Grey Pear Jam I made.
I’m putting it on everything!
I made your cranberry pickles and I’ve been loving them. I love the leftover liquid in a tea and the berries over vanilla yogurt.
Well, I made apple butter for the first time this year, and I have to say, it’s the best apple butter I’ve ever eaten. Normally when I madke something that I really, really love, I feel a little stingy about giving it away, but I’ve been so excited to share this apple butter with my friends. (To be fair, I made about 24 pints’ worth . . .and I still have apples left in the fridge that could make one more batch.)
Peach jam! Tastes like summer!
Mmmmmmm . . . pear vanilla jam . . . there’s only one jar left . . .
Cornichons! I found the recipe on Hounds in the Kitchen. They are so gloriously sour and spicy. My dad is already planning to put in extra cucumbers this summer just for these.
Strawberry jam! An oldie but a goodie!
Best of the winter so far is my lime marmalade. Makes super yummy keylime pie thumbprint cookies that get me through this dreary winter!
Applesauce from windfall apples we found in the neighborhood.
My favorite is canned peaches. Finally have a house with a garden, so I have big canning plans!!!
dilly beans
Definitely the pear amaretto jam I made this fall. I am down to my last jar and it makes me sad! I need to make more before the pears disappear entirely for the winter!
A friend gave out jars of her Blackberry-Vanilla jam in the fall and it is so tasty!
Spiced cherries!! Great on ice cream and in drinks.
Really enjoying my apple butter. Awesome stirred into plain yogurt!
My favourite preserve from the past year is Peach/Pear Jam. It is so wonderfully summery and fresh tasting during the winter on fresh toast!
Pickled green cherry tomatoes. I need the jar lifter!
Thanks for the giveaways. Beginner canner could go for a beginner’s kit.
I love eating fruit jam in the winter. Strawberry is my absolute favourite, and I love eating it on warm toast with tea on cold morning. It’s a good thing my boyfriend and I canned so much of it last summer c:
Too hard to pick just one! Everyone in the family has their favorite. My son’s is the pickled jalapenos, my husband’s, the candied ones. For me it’s a toss up between the spiced red cabbage and the apricot jam. My daughter and youngest son love the spicy kosher dills! Can’t wait for the spring!
Been enjoying the apple butter, but it wasn’t actually preserved. This would give me the tools to take the next step!
As to”what preserve you’ve most enjoyed eating so far this winter” that would be home canned tomato preserves and second to that is the jalapeno jelly. I learned to make the tomato preserves many, many moons ago while living in So Carolina. I went to a commercial tomato farmers “pick your own” tomato field. He opened the field up to the public after his harvest was complete (culls that were left after harvest and most were quiet ripe). Nothing like a taste of summer harvest in mid winter. Ummmmm ummm good!
…caramel apple jam, but most of all grape juice! That was a fun process.
I have been enjoying 2 things this winter….Strawberry Jam (made with Pomonas natural pectin) and mmm, bread and butter pickles. i could eat a whole jar in one sitting!
Also, I could use a lid lifter (not sure what happened to mine) and another cookbook!
blueberry jalepano jam!!
meyer lemon preserves….. delicious!!
I’ve loved eating the spicy zucchini pickles I made last fall!
I’m almost out of my Triple Berry Jam (dubbed Triple O jam)….Luckily I froze some of the fresh berries so I’ll be batching another small batch soon! This would come in handy!
I would totally love this giveaway. Not sure exactly what I’d make because I’ve never canned before. I have an amazing lemon curd recipe, I wonder if you can can that?
Thank you for the opportunity!
What I am enjoying this winter is. Strawberry Perserves and some Okra. So good.
I have enjoyed preserved Lemons, I make a drink with them using 7-up, Oh MY Goodness I Love it.
Peach butter and tomatoes.
Thanks for having this contest! I’ve been enjoying strawberry jam.
I have been enjoying strawberry jam I canned last spring. I used up some of my canned tomatoes in a scalloped tomato recipe for our southern cooking themed Christmas eve dinner. Both the strawberries and the tomatoes were my first (and only – since I am new to caning) canning project. So I could really use the canning supplies. I also have been enjoying refrigerator candied Kumquats that I made just before Christmas.They are delicious strait from the jar. We enjoyed them as a condiment along with cranberries for Christmas. I also glazed a ham for New Years day with the candied Kumquat juice. I hope to do more canning this year and would LOVE to win. Thanks for the offer.
Karen
Anything I can stir into my yogert in the morning–lately it’s been orange or lemon curd!
Apple Butter and Pear Chutney!
cinnamon applesace!
I love cranberry and my mom makes an excellent Cranberry-orange jam (well, more of a sauce but I use it as a jam).
sweet (but also spicy) chilli jam is my favorite!
strawberry! plain but delicious
I’m not eating any preserves right now because I’ve never tried making them! I keep hesitating to try it but this giveaway might be the kick in the pants I need. There was a yummy (purchased) lavender blueberry jam that’s all gone.
Tomatoes! A taste of summer in winter is heavenly!
elderberry preserves
My Italian prune plum jam!
So many yummy items we are enjoying but if I have to pick a favorite I would say my green beans. Store bought just DO NOT compare!
Although looking through here I also love my hot pepper jelly.
In August my soon to be husband and I foraged for wild plums (well they are wild now, but they were probably planted by some long gone homesteader) on Gabriola Island in British Columbia. We made A LOT of plum chutney and plum marmalade for our wedding guests. We still have a bit of the marmalade left and it is fantastic! What a great give away!
Simple raspberry jam mixed in my steel-cut oatmeal.
Cranberry Jam! Yum, yum, yum.
Apricot!
Your tomato jam recipe. Soooo good on a grilled cheese sandwich while it’s cold out!
My favorite thing has been Spicy Pickled Beets!
asparagus pickles!
My favorites have actually been two jams–some strawberry jam I made from strawberries I got from my produce co-op, and fig jam from figs a friend picked in her yard.
I don’t know if I enjoy the pickles…..apple butter…..or spaghetti sauce better. Probably the apple butter!
Strawberry jam that I made this summer
Your apple-ginger jam!
My favorite preserves this winter have been organic blueberry preserves!
I enjoyed making my orange marmalade for xmas gifts, then enjoying the leftover jars!
Salsa! It tastes like summer.
I haven’t enjoyed any preserves this year because I’ve just started learning about canning. I’m hoping to get into it this coming summer!
I’ve been enjoying pear-cardamom jam on homemade black bread. So delicious!
I made Middle Eastern Pickled Turnips just like my yia yia (grandmother) used to make. I was surprised (and delighted) and how much colour they picked up from the beets.
I’ve been enjoying some pickled grapes all week with lunch. I also been munching on some Bourbon Pluot Jam. The next thing I plan to open is the Spiced Pickle Peaches.
I have been enjoying the cranberry apple jam that I used as gifts this holiday season. There was plenty of leftovers for us to enjoy as well.
The plan is to have a big garden this year and learn to can the surplus.
I still have some hot pepper jelly in my pantry from my mother and grandmother. With cream cheese and water crackers… mmmmm.
Would LOVE to start making homemade tomato sauces, salsas, and just plain canned tomatoes for off-season goodness.
We’ve been devouring the pickles we made from the huge supply of pickling cucumbers we got at our local farmer’s market!
Pepper Jelly
I am really enjoying my green tomato relish. It’s like pickle relish. We mix it with mayo for our tartar sauce. Yum!
Peaches
Hot Peppers!
This was my first year canning, and choosing is hard! I think it has to be a toss up between tomato jam (which I will never be without again!) and balsamic red onion relish.
pickled jalapenos, because I grew them myself and it was the first time I canned them!
Grapefruit ginger marmalade! Oh so deelish!
Highbush cranberry and jalapeno jelly – the absolute best! Now my daughter needs a canning kit so she can make presents for me…
Salsa!
I just had some strawberry preserves on a PB&J for lunch today, they were fantastic.
I have never canned before! I stumbled upon your website while doing some research on the topic. I have a family of 5 and am going to double my garden size this summer. I want to be able to preserve our bounty by canning, and using it throughout the year to save us some money. I cannot wait to harvest our garden and spend time with my kids canning! This gift would be of great use to me and my family! We would love to begin a family tradition. Thank you!
apple butter mmmmm
Plain ol’ apricot. Yum!
I really got into fermentation last fall and now have a lot of saurkraut and kimchi type items to snack on! mmmmm good
Tomatoes! I use lots of them and didn’t put up near enough this year.
Pear Butter always always always is my favorite.
quince jelly has been my go-to lately
we’re loving our strawberry balsamic jam! noms!
It feels like cheating, because it’s not like lemons grow around my area anyway, but my favourite preserve this winter has definitely been lemon curd — like opening up a jar of tangy sunshine every time!
I have recently discovered my love of canning which reminds me of all the pickled vegetables and piccalilli my grandmother used to make. I made a fresh fig and thyme jam for Christmas gifts which turned out great! This site is perfect for a newbie like me to get delicious recipes and tips for preserving Nature’s bounty. Thank you, Marisa!!!
The peach vanilla bean sauce made from your recipe! Love it in my yogurt, on french toast and stirred in my tea! Delish!
Does lemon curd count? I’ve never actually processed preserves or anything, so I guess I should get started and put my mason jars to legitimate use!
Well I can’t say that I have had any preserves. No one I know cans. However, I have recently, very recently actually, decided to learn. I purchased some supplies online and are waitin for them to arrive any day now. In the meantime I am studying the art of home preserving and canning using online resources. That is how I found this site. Would love to use these items to help get me started.
I usually can applesauce, but this year I made pearsauce, and it is my favorite!
I’d like to try making the kumquat marmelade you wrote about recently; I’ve never quite known what to do with them!
My favorite so far has been dilly beans and vanilla rhubarb jam.
I have enjoyed my jalapeno jelly. So yummy!
vanilla pear preserves
We’ve been loving apple butter this year!
Vanilla pear
I have just started this whole canning and preserving thing…about to make my first batch of pickled carrots and green beans.
Meyer lemon curd! My boyfriend’s grandmother’s tree in Alabama yielded about 30 pounds of Meyer lemons at its last winter gasp – and we flew them all home to Massachusetts!
The crabapple jelly made by my friend’s husband. I’d love to venture into the world of preserves, which is why I’d love to win this kit!
our homemade tomato soup made from fresh tomatoes in season
I have most enjoyed (just tonight, in fact!) dilly beans. Straight out of the jar or on a salad, I love them either way.
I made a few jars of pickled jalapenos and have been loving them on sandwiches and burgers! YUM!!
Eek! I’d love to win this! I’m launching into all things “homesteading” this year and don’t have any real canning supplies. I did, however, experiment with water bath canning and made some yummy apple jelly, which we are thoroughly enjoying.
What a nice giveaway. Thanks for the chance. My favorite preserve this winter is strawberries. Not made by me, but delicious nonetheless.
Jalapeno jelly…yummm
The pickled stuff. Dilly beans, bread and butter pickles.
I made pickled green tomatoes with my surplus of green tomatoes this fall, they have been such a hit at potlucks and dinner parties! I’m hoping for a surplus of green tomatoes again next season!
Definitely some home canned green beans that we pressure canned… i love them and they are great to throw into soups too.
I have enjoyed so many of the preserved foods that my entire family has endeavored to put up together…pickle relish, b & b pickles, pickled beets, apple pie jam, apple sauce, the list goes on and on. But by far, the most useful items have been the preserved, whole tomatoes. From heirloom tomatoes that make jewel-toned jars of bliss, to the plum tomatoes that I grew by the bushel here at home…they’ve come in handy for making so many winter dishes bright and delicious! I’m currently excitedly looking through seed catalogs for new ideas for my spring garden!
My son entered the county fair when he was 10 years old and was awarded the “Bell Award” for his whole preserved plums. Unfortunately, the Blue Book he was supposed to be given as a prize was stolen from the fair office before he could get it. We have been canning, dehydrating, leathering, pickling…you name it for the past 12 years and now I would love to get him a copy of this book as a gift.
Thanks for such a great site! We consider you to be the authority on the subject of canning!
I am fairly new to canning. The only thing I can regularly is freezer jam for my son. Right now we are enjoying a triple berry with pear jam. I think its blackberry, strawberry and blueberry.
I haven’t preserved anything yet, but I am anxious to get started. Still getting the supplies together, so anything to add to what I have would be great.
Concord Grape Jelly – because they grew in my backyard.
I just found your blog today, how serendipitous. I’ve been hoping to do some of my own canning this year, can’t wait to read through your blog for some great tips.
My favorite preserves are always strawberry jams, but I love anything pickled as well!
apple rhubard jam!
Strawberry preserves, and apple butter.
Raspberry preserves and tomatoes (although not together).
My good friend helped me make Apple preserves… (Although she did most of the work) I think its a lot like apple butter but the best part was that the apples were from my mums apple tree…. How cool is that!!!!! I really want to get more into canning…what a great way to be healthier and most cost effective with our food budget.
I have enjoyed my sour cherry preserve. Sweet and tart all at the same time
Raspberry!
We are enjoying our sweet and dill pickles we canned.
Fairly new to canning: one of my faves is pickled cauliflower that an auntie made.
I just opened a jar of Kiwi Jam that’s delicious!
My favorite way to have it is spooned over meringues for a yummy dessert.
My favorite to eat has been Ginger-Asian Pear Jam. My husband liked my salsa verde with green tomatoes instead of tomatillos. But I have to say what I enjoy the most are the reactions I get from the kids who eat what I’ve made.
We use up a lot of home canned tomatoes every year. I use them in a lot of things.
Cheesecake !
Bloody OroMeloMeyerRin marmalade!
My favorite thing is that I put up this year was something that my grandmother used to make for me, but, due to her declining eye sight, can no longer do so, is my pears in extra light syrup. Just like I remembered as a kid, fighting with my cousins as to who would get to drink the syrup after we fought over the pears.
Low sugar peach bourbon cinnamon vanilla preserves. Pickled cauliflower, onions and okra. In my garden strawberries are coming in and I’m eyeballing new recipes!
My fig preserves. Figs were picked off my 45 year old tree in backyard.
I have only made one thing – and that is Mustard Pickles
I just started canning this after inheriting a pressure canner. So I am not yet enjoying the product of my labor but hopefully soon I will learn what I need to can and what I can can.
mmmm tomatoes…. and blackberry … been wanting to star canning this would be the best to start with
Just finishing up some strawberry jam.
Due to lack of water last year I didn’t get much done. Family is really missing the pickles right now. But, I did get my hands on some zucchinni this summer and made several pints of jam. Also made sweet onion relish.
I have enjoyed the fig jam I made the most. My family enjoyed the pickles (I made 10 pounds worth of dill refrigerated pickles.) Also, they enjoy strawberry and raspberry jam. I especially have enjoyed having so many things in my pantry available knowing exactly what is in it and where it came from. My friends have also enjoyed the fruits of my labors. Home canning is a wonderful thing. That’s a great canning rack – mine is rusted from years of use.
Corn relish with jalapenos and maple syrup. Pickled radishes. Albacore.
Love BALL Products, best money ever spent, We’ve been eating Triple Berry Jam and Apple Butter, and Green Beans and Spicy Gardenia Mix, just to name a few items,.
My favorite for breakfast has been the Pear Vanilla Jam (your fantastic recipe), for lunches we love dill pickles, pickled jalapenos, or pickled beets on sandwiches or with salads, for dinner, we smother most meals with roasted garlic/cayanne hot sauce, and deserts are usually warm applesauce or peaches with vanilla ice cream.
It’s a tough call, but I would have to say Concord grape jam. My reason being the history behind it. I was able to harvest the grapes from a vine that originated in my great grandfather’s yard. It’s like having a little bit of my family preserved along with the grapes. Called it “Great Grandpa Archie’s Great Grape Jam” and sent it to my family for the holidays
mango butter!
Raspberry ginger jam and bread & butter pickles – YUMMY!
well, since we’ve already used 27 pint jars of them, I guess our favorite has been the canned whole tomatoes. I use them in so many dishes! Need to can triple next summer. thank you!
rhubarb chutney!
made with my front yard rhubarb. yummmm!
Simple blueberry jam, every time i taste it I remember picking all those berry’s on a warm summer day!
I would love to be entered into your giveaway as I would love to give this gift to someone as a way to get them involved in a group I am trying to start up at my church for ladies to learn food preservation.
Thanks, Helen
Four berry jam – black, boysen, raspberry, and tay, all grown in my grandparents garden.
Apple Chutney! I put a little on some cheddar cheese and have it as an afternoon snack. Delish! My kids, on the other hand, have been sucking down apple sauce and pears like the antidote for winter is hidden at the bottom of the jar.
Have been procrastinating on getting a canning set, but would love to win one! (procrastinating on spending the money becuase I’m single and would I really can that much to warrant buying the set? Winning the set – whole ‘other story!)
Bread and Butter Pickles . . . YUM!!!
Plum jam. I should have made more…
My rhubarb ginger preserve. Great on toast and with cheese!
My last jar of bread and butter pickles !! My kids devoured them, I would so enjoy some new tools !
I canned pickles and also some tomatoes. By far the best was the Blueberry Jam with cinnamon. Pick me for the giveaway. Thanks
I started following you last summer in an attempt to learn as much as possible about canning; I’ve never done it before and plan on starting soon. I didn’t get to eat anything canned this past season, but I did drool.
…….mango preserves…….so buttery good that I even top my company cheesecake with them……
Pearapple sauce. A family favorite!
My favorite canned item was Layered Chicken Vegetable Soup. Yum.
The creamsicle jelly from your recipes. It’s SOOO tasty! In fact I’m making more because I gave too much of it away!
Strawberry preserves….Love them!
It’s a toss up between the Apple Rhubarb Chutney and the applesauce I just made!
what a wonderful prize gift.. my favourite canning project this year was manderin orange sections, canned in a light syrup.. delicious!
Pickled carrots my husband made from the small crop of container carrots we grew for the first time on our back deck!
My husband loves the pear vanilla jam on ice cream, he loves it so much he made me make 21 jars of it!!
I have enjoyed Pickled Beets with Tarragon..
Would love to enter giveaway. Been eating lots of my hot sauce. Also the kids have almost gone through all the applesauce we canned.
Love to can. last year did beets, pickles, fruit from berries to pears.
nothing better than the fresh flavor in the middle of a below zero day with snow.
Look forward to hearing I am a winner.
My favorite so far has been peach butter mixed with blackberry preserves. YUM
the pickled crab apples from my sister-in-law’s ranch in WY – went great with our ham for Christmas dinner!
I love your website and can’t wait to try more of your recipes. I would love any of these gifts you are offering as I do everything makeshift, so far. I appreciate your doing this and have enjoyed reading what others shared. I made spiced starfruit this year and Lilikoi (passion fruit) butter, but everyone’s favorite (and mine) gift that I gave for the Holidays are the breadfruit and onion pickles.
I have enjoyed my chocolate mint jelly on fresh baked scones. Yum!
Yum! My favorite was the boysenberry jam, oh and the pasta sauce, oh and the apple sauce, lol!
We’ve been eating lots of apple butter this year, but also been experimenting with pressure canning and enjoying having turkey, chicken, and veggie stock on hand for all the winter soup cooking!
I’ve started pickling sliced onions and peppers for burgers and brats. Feels like we’re having a summer cookout in the cold of winter. Delicious!
I just pulled out a jar of tomato jam (thank you for your recipe!) to spread on top of turkey meatloaf. It was wonderful–definitely my favorite so far this winter.
My favorite has been my layered stewed veggies. I did 35 pints and I use it about twice or three times a week to make soup, sauce, as a side dish, and to top crackers. It is essentially stewed tomatoes, multi-colored peppers, onions, and garlic, layered separately to create a striped effect, and then pressure canned. I use this instead of plain stewed tomatoes to make creamy tomatoe soup – creammy veggie soup – YUM!
Strawberry preserves… great on waffles, pancakes and as topping for shortcake
My favorite is my apple conserve that I canned this fall. I’ll share my recipe if you want it.
It’s delicious. A big hit with my urban homesteader group that I’m part of.
Oh — the best has been the apple-pear jam I made last fall — it’s great on fresh bread
Huckleberry jam!
I have been eating my grandmothers jams and they are great
Cinnamon applesauce!
I am thrilled that I waited until today to enter your giveaway. If I had entered earlier, I would have missed all of the wonderful comments made by those who had already entered. Fantastic ideas and suggestions for this coming year’s season of preserving and canning are appreciated. My husband I retired three years ago and now have to garden and preserve the “fruits of our labor”. In addition to lots of fruit preserves, canned vegetables, etc., my favorite this year was the cranberry chutney that we made and gave to our friends. A little basket with the chutney, brie cheese and a bag of 7 grain crackers made a nice little gift that was appreciated by all.
A friend gave me some rhubarb jam that I really enjoyed.
I love eating the roasted tomatoes and tomato jam I made this summer. I did a corn and tomato risotto and it was like it was summer again!
I have enjoyed the Concord Pears which we can only get for such a short time. They are so sweet and wonderful!
I so enjoy canning! We just got into our home after a house fire destroyed it 3 & 1/2 years ago. (I was canning salsa & the stove ignited). I am looking forward to canning and preserving our harvest, and right now we are most enjoying the strawberry jams we last put up! YUM!
Love home canned foods. Use to do it all the time but our well water went bad and had to stop the canning. Hope to resume this summer. Nothing like home food that doesn’t have mean preservatives in them.
Muscadine Jam
Homemade cherry pie filling…so good!
Love cilantro chutney with all of my food! I’m a real beginner and can’t wait to really get started.
I just love my homemade blackberry jam on Engish muffins in the wintertime.
Canned plum tomatoes!! The best!!
This is such an important resource for all of us but especially for all small farmers. Not only to insure our sustainability but to give us quality value added products to sell at farmers markets.
This is hard as it changes so often, but this year I’ve enjoyed tomato sauce made with heirloom tomatoes, pickled okra made with purple heirloom okra and apricot jam.
Yummy,
Terry
Crabapple Jelly would be my choice. If I could find crabapples…
Applesauce from my farmers market apples .
Your pear vanilla jam is our all time favorite this year. So good on everything and made a great holiday gift!
the Strawberry Rhubarb jam I made mega batches of this summer to give out at my wedding. and new to me, the “Cowboy Candy” aka Candied jalapenos. I made up a bunch for Christmas using red and green pepper. so good and festive!
Definitely the “Thai” Mango Jam I made last summer. Nam Doc Mai mangos, ginger, infused with lemon grass, all from my own yard (ok, except for the ginger). So great when you stir it into Greek yogurt!
Blueberry preserves. Just the blues. Yummy.Yummy.
I always enjoy the most….. my homemade spaghetti sauce i made with the big beautiful tomatoes we grew in our garden.
Let’s try to get this to a thousand! What a following! I can’t wait to start canning again once the garden wakes up!
Definitely the multi-citrus ginger marm that I finished off this morning with my toast. So glad its blood orange season so that I can replenish the marmalade supply!
Pickles!
roasted red pepper sauce. mmmmm
Love you site!! So much info. Thanks.
A friend sent me some Raspberry-apple butter that was yummy. My New Year’s resolution is to learn to can!
The hot pepper jelly I made with my mom this summer and the pickle okra have been my favorite so far.
My favorite is my Dill Pickles. I’ve been making the same recipe for over thirty years and I can sit and eat the whole qt. jar at once.
Wild grape jelly.
Hmmm- hard to decide, but really loving my cranberry lemon pear jam, and also sweet pepper jam!
I’m enjoying fig preserves from our fig tree.
Roasted Rhubarb and Vanilla Preserves! Wahoo; under the wire!
oh oh, I want one!