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Pickled Peppers
Tonight, I canned 4 pints of peppers from the garden. Super easy to do, fill the jars with peppers, then fill with hot vinegar/water, then put in boiling water for 10 minutes. I hope they taste good!
Is your time worth $72 per hour?
I did the math behind making your own jam and now I think making your own jam is one of the best uses of your time possible. It is easy too! As an added bonus, you know exactly what ingredients … Continue reading
Box Project Completed
I finished up my box project today, finally. It took a lot longer than I thought it would, mainly because of the amount of time I spent putting the clear finish on the boxes. I built 10 boxes total, all … Continue reading
Mason Jar Box Design – Version 2
Digging through box after box of unorganized mason jars last night to find the ones I needed was enough motivation for me to decide to move forward with my little box-building project. I thought of a better way to make … Continue reading
Strawberry Jam
Sprouts is selling strawberries for $0.97/pound right now. This is what $6 of strawberries + $5 of sugar + $3 of pectin, and several hours of my time yielded tonight. 12 half-pint jars and 3 3/4-pint jars. It took me … Continue reading
Plum-Flavored Sugar, Hold the Worms
I’ve quickly moved through the 5 stages of grief since finding that my precious plums were playing host to some very rude and uninvited worms. A few people advised me to just cut out the bad parts of the fruit … Continue reading
My First Canning FAIL
I was excited to see that my plum tree is full of fruit that is ripe or near ripe. I decided to seize the moment and go ahead and make some plum jam tonight. I was missing a few things, … Continue reading
Mason Jar Case Project
Dave suggested that cases would be a good way to store mason jars full of food. At first I thought this was unnecessary, but the more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea. If all your jars won’t … Continue reading
More Jars
Mike went to a garage sale and picked up a bunch of free jars for me. Looks like there are lots of quart jars in there, along with some non-canning jars too. I’m done looking at craigslist for a while, … Continue reading
Mason Jars
Dave forwarded me a craiglist ad for “50 to 75 mason jars – $5 – Plano”. I emailed the person and said I wanted them. The lady had bought them earlier, and used about 20 of them for table decorations. … Continue reading