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Canning 101: Preserving with Tattler’s Reusable Lids

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Marisa

One of the primary truths of canning has always been that while the jars and rings are reusable, the lids are not. When I teach canning classes, I’m careful to emphasis that those flat metal lids only have one trip … Continue reading →

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Tomato Jam

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Marisa

I used to have a fantastic coworker named John. He was calm in the face of chaos, had a buoyant sense of humor and knew how not to take things too seriously. And, his wife Amy just happened to be … Continue reading →

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What Approximately Sixty Pounds of Tomatoes Looks Like

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Marisa

On September 1st, I picked up 100 pounds of tomatoes from a local market who occasionally places special orders for me. I had a number of recipes in mind to make with them and assumed that I’d spend most of … Continue reading →

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Canning 101: Why Recipes Call for Bottled Lemon Juice

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Marisa

If you’ve been paying careful attention to my recipes, you may have noticed that in most my jam recipes I’ll indicate lemon juice amounts in the number of lemons, whereas when it comes to recipes that involve tomatoes or other … Continue reading →

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Slow Oven-Roasted Roma Tomatoes

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Marisa

I’m elbow-deep in roma tomatoes at the moment, but wanted to drop by with a few words on one of the ways I’m preserving these scrumptious gems. Long, slow roasting in a 200 degree oven. This treatment shrinks their mass, … Continue reading →

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Good Knives Make Canning Easier

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Marisa

Earlier tonight, I drove down to Pumpkin Market (a fabulous little shop that primarily stocks food that is locally farmed, raised, grown and produced) and picked up 100 pounds of roma tomatoes. I have a four-day weekend coming up and … Continue reading →

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Canning 101: Why You Can’t Can Your Family’s Tomato Sauce

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Marisa

Tomorrow is the first day of September, and with it comes all those traditional end-of-summer events, including tomato canning season (at least here in the mid-Atlantic where I live). Because the yearly tomato glut is finally beginning to arrive, I’ve … Continue reading →

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August Can Jam: Tomato Butter

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Marisa

Once again, I’m right up against the deadline for this month’s Can Jam. I didn’t intend for it to work out this way. In fact, I made a batch of Tomato Jam last week, based on my friend Amy’s recipe, … Continue reading →

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White Peach Sauce with Vanilla (+ giveaway!)

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Marisa

Until the summer of 2007, the only peaches I knew were aggressively fuzzy and yellow-fleshed. I was perfectly content with those peaches, until I encountered Beechwood Orchards and their white peaches. Fragrant and floral, without any of the pucker that … Continue reading →

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July Can Jam: Cucumber Pepper Relish

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Marisa

This month’s Can Jam recipe is a direct result of an abundance of green peppers in my CSA share and a hot night at a ball game. I like a nice crunchy green pepper as much as the next girl, … Continue reading →

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