CRAZY GREEN JUICE! RECIPES for your JARS o' JUICE!
2 Juices in 1 = GREEN ENERGY DRINK for today's POST-WORKOUT SNACK + it's also a HYDRATING JUICE for the NEXT MORNING! *CLICK(more info ...
GREEN JUICE! spinach kale parsley celery pear & apple CAN YOU DIG IT? ...
Immediately pour any remaining juice into GLASS mason jars, sealed shut w PLASTIC lids (metal lids rust). GLASS JARS + LIDS for your JUICE can be ...
She Ate a Super Yummy Dark Days Meal, and Voiced her Desire for ...
We ate well tonight! I grabbed two of the Roosters we raised and harvested, out of the freezer yesterday, defrosted them, then today, I roasted them in a covered roaster, with a bit of water, a little wine, salt, pepper and rosemary powder. The oven was 350 degrees for about 2 hours, and they were perfect. I have never enjoyed a chicken, even our own, as much as I enjoyed this one. It was so moist and flavorful. I cooked two just so I could serve one, and pull the leftover meat, along with the meat from the second one for making other things*. This lovely bird was served with Sweet potato crisps and Green beans. The crisps were just thinly sliced rings of Sweet Potato fried in duck fat, then sprinkled with a little salt and pepper. The green beans were simply steamed.
Roll Call:
My Yard: Chicken, Duck Fat
Local: Salt (Maine Salt Company), Sweet Potatoes (Ramsbottham Farm), Green Beans (A friends garden, frozen by me last summer), Cayuga White Wine (Jewel House Winery).
Not Local: Pepper and Rosemary Powder
Sorry, no picture, though I wanted to take one of the sweet potatoes with the duck fat bubbling around the lovely orange disks, but both camera batteries are dead, and I've misplaced the chargers...oops.
*When talking with Deb and Joe yesterday we discussed the fact that some things are meant to be made with leftovers. If you want to make a pot pie, for example, it's a lot of work to start with a whole, raw bird, cook it, cool it, pull the meat, then make the pot pie...talk about slow food! Many would say, just go to the store, pick up a package of boneless breast, it takes only a few minutes to cook, then cut it up and you can start your pie...not going to work for a locavore...so the answer is to make pot pie AFTER you have made a roasted chicken meal. Same with soups, so much easier to have meat for soup after you have roasted the meat for another meal.
...How to Sterilize Canning Jars: Sterilizing Mason Jars Properly ...
Preserving food is becoming more popular, and knowing how to sterilize glass Mason jars is the first step in making great jams and pickles. More important, safe food handling helps prevent food poisoning.
Glass Mason jars are most commonly sold in the U.S. under the brand names Ball and Kerr, and in Canada under the brand name Bernardin. There are also more contemporary looking jars available from such companies as Weck.
A standard Mason jar comes with a flat metal lid with a red rubber strip around the bottom edge and a metal screw-on band that holds the lid on the jar while it is being processed in boiling water. Once the jar has been boiled, however, the vacuum seal is all that holds the lid on. A lid that is not tightly fixed to the jar is a good indication that the food inside has started to spoil.
Standard and Wide Mouth Mason JarsCanning jars come in standard sizes with either a wide or a narrow mouth: half pint (8 ounces), pint (16 ounces), quart (32 ounces) and half gallon (64 ounces). This means that a thrifty cook can collect used jars. Replacement bands and lids can be bought separately. The bands can be reused, but the lids should only be used once and then discarded. The old-fashioned method of using a paraffin wax seal is no longer considered to be a safe one.
The method desrcibed in this article for hot water bath canning can be used with high-acid fruits and vegetables. A modern recipe should be used. Low-acid fruits and vegetables, fish and meats cannot be safely preserved in a simple hot water canner; they require a pressure canner.
Suppplies Needed for Sterilizing Mason Jars Canner (a large pot with a wire insert for sterilizing glass jars, available in many hardware stores, as well as chain stores like Walmart in the US or Zellers in Canada, and in kitchen supply stores.) Jar lifter (pictured) Tongs Basket strainer or equivalent Newspaper or dishtowel Jars, bands and lids How to Sterilize Canning Jars...
