Posts Tagged ‘food preservation’

Making Small Batch Strawberry Jam (video)

A cooking demonstration to make small batch jam using fresh strawberries, sugar, and other simple ingredients. Marge Braker is a retired home economics teacher.

Preserving and Canning Food with Friends, new DVD

March 25, 2011 Canning and preserving food had nearly become a lost art in the kitchen by the turn of the recent century. For many, time spent in the kitchen became less as work and family demanded more time. Convenience became de rigueur. If there was a food item you wanted, you went to the [...]

Food Swap! (video)

A fun way of building a local food community – getting together with others for a food swap!

In The Can: Food Swap (video)

Bethany Rydmark shares some of her thoughts about the Food Swap event she has created for local foodies at the Branch & Birdie store in southeast Portland.

Canning Fresh Pears (video)

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 home [...]

Preserving Food And Friendship (video)

Two friends form a close bond through their mutual food preservation efforts.

Small Batch Fresh Strawberry Jam

From the episode: Preserving Food And Friendship

Kitchen Literacy 3

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) in the United States. In her [...]