Various fruits and vegetable have been ripening these past few weeks. Have you had a chance to put any up? A favorite around our household is pears, especially the bartlett variety. Like most other fruit, once ripened, if you can’t eat it all, consider canning or preserving in some fashion. Marge Braker, a retired [...]
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Canning Fresh Pears
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Preserving Food And Friendship
It was once a common way to extend food beyond the immediate season. Two friends become involved in the ancient practice of preserving food, and in the process form a closer bond with nature and each other.
When’s the last time you canned something? Or, bought a lot of berries, peaches or beans, got the [...]
Posted in Food Stories Also tagged ball canning, canning, canning jars, canning recipes, Food Culture & Ethnicity, friendship, home canning, stories, sustainable agriculture 7 Comments
Small Batch Fresh Strawberry Jam
From the episode: Preserving Food And Friendship
Posted in Recipes Also tagged canning, fresh fruit, fruit, jam, strawberries, Sustainable Living 13 Comments
Making Small Batch Strawberry Jam
Marge Braker, a retired home economics teacher demonstrates how to make small batch jam using fresh strawberries, sugar, and other simple ingredients. It’s strawberry season now, from May through June is the best (maybe) only time to find fresh strawberries in your neck of the woods. The ones that grow in the Portland area [...]
Posted in Cooking Fresh Also tagged berries, fresh fruit, home made jam, strawberries, strawberry fruit, strawberry jam, Sustainable Living 4 Comments
Kitchen Literacy 3
Cooking Up a Story: Food News
In part 3 of Kitchen Literacy, Ann Vileisis talks about the need to start making connections between our consumption of food, and all the interrelated social, health, and environmental consequences that occur. Agricultural pollution is the single largest non-point source of water pollution (effecting rivers, streams, and wetland areas) [...]
Posted in Food News Also tagged ann vilesis, food culture, food history, food origin, food traditions 3 Comments
