Preserving without SDV constraints!

[Anhaga]

I've just moved to a new place, and we've had some excellent luck with orchard seconds and produce auctions, so I wanted to share pictures with you all:

This is most of this week's canning: 7 quarts of peaches, 16 pints of mixed pickle (cherry tomatoes, sweet onions, sweet peppers, celery), 7 cups of bourbon-peach jam, 6 cups of ginger-peach, and about 10 cups of blueberry jam. We did about 13 cups of plain peach jam earlier, but my husband already put that away so it's not in the picture. Happily, unlike in Stardew, this only took two afternoons, not a week.

 

[Lew Zealand]

Those are awesome! And yeah, way faster than in Stardew. That must be a first! But you probably get less g for them though, oh well...

But butbut the mixed pickle... those are just creepy lookin'!

 

[Cuusardo]

Yum!

 

[Magically Clueless]

looks delicious!!! will be good eatin down the line

 

[Anhaga]

Those are awesome! And yeah, way faster than in Stardew. That must be a first! But you probably get less g for them though, oh well...

But butbut the mixed pickle... those are just creepy lookin'!

The mixed pickle is a little prettier in person when you can see the different veg/fruit in it better! That one happened because my husband paid $4.50 for 10 pints of cherry tomatoes at a produce auction, and even with two of our three kids loving cherry tomatoes, we weren't going to get through them in before they started to get moldy.

The ginger-peach jam was the real triumph this time; I finally put enough ginger in to give the jam a bit of a bite (it was probably nearly 1/4 cup of grated ginger--two pieces of fresh ginger root that were nearly 4 inches long and an inch in diameter). I am looking forward to trying it with goat cheese! All of this is going to be incredibly nice once the snow starts falling here, though; our new location is in central New York, and while we won't get as much snow as we would up on one of the Great Lakes, we'll still get more than we did when we lived in Oregon!

 

[astatine210]

Oooh pickles….. love it! People who preserve are amazing in my books. I’d love to know how and do it but my kitchen and pantry are already stocked with too many things that I’m sure my husband would shoot me if I even tried to ask him about doing anything of the sort at home…

would love to make kimchi though. I heard it’s quite simple just would need to make a bunch in bulk… and I would literally be the only one in the family consuming it.