Nice cans!

[purple]

Anyone else do this stuff?

I've gotten into canning lately. :D I've made a few things so far. From left to right:

http://i34.tinypic.com/x3xzj7.jpg

A half-eaten jar of spicy dill refrigerator pickles (http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Spicy-Refrigerator-Dill-Pickles/Detail.aspx), dill pickles (http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Dill-Pickles/Detail.aspx) (non-fridge ones), marinated mushrooms (http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Marinated-Mushrooms-II/Detail.aspx), strawberry jam (http://pickyourown.org/strawberryjam.htm), and sweet hot pepper relish (http://www.thatsmyhome.com/general/hot-pepper-relish.htm). The refrigerator pickles are quite good, but the regular ones won't be done for several more weeks, so I don't know about them. We haven't tried the mushrooms yet. The jam is very tasty, and I LOVE the pepper relish. It's really good on top of cheese and crackers. :eat:

Here is a pic of my whole stash. Ignore the horror that is my kitchen. :nono:
http://i35.tinypic.com/4v4uaa.jpg

[wicked]

damn girl you have!

[KarenMA]

I love to can but haven't done it in awhile. Great job!

[ang]

Great job! I love to can. The top shelf of all my cabinets is full of jars. :laugh:

I love refrigerator pickles. Last year our extra refrigerator was FULL of pickles, which is the only thing I hate about them. I run out of room. I want to try some freezer ones next, I've never made them.

So far this year I've made 2 batches of plum jelly, blackberry jelly, grape jelly, red pepper spread, peaches, hot sauce, diced tomatoes, whole tomatoes and chow chow. I think that's it. Our squash we freeze instead of can. I want to can a lot more, but we didn't do a very big garden this year. Next year it's on!

[Rebecca]

What's chow chow?

[ang]

A green tomato and cabbaged based spread. I eat it on black eyed peas :blush:

My recipe is similar to this:
http://southernfood.about.com/od/picklesrelishes/r/bl90718d.htm

Gregg makes fun of me for it. :laugh:

[ang]

Oh and it makes a ton and has to sit for a couple days...so I make it in an ice chest.

/officially redneck

[Rebecca]

That sounds really yummy. :eat:

[Karen]

Looks good! :eat:

I think I'll be doing apple sauce and apple butter very soon...and I may try to make/can a bruschetta.

[purple]

Ooh, I should do apple butter! I hadn't even thought of that. I am gonna need a second kitchen to store all this stuff, though. :laugh:

[ang]

I made some crockpot apple butter that was yummy. I don't really know what to put it on though, so we haven't used much of it and it made a ton.

[Amber]

I want pickles but have NO idea how to make them. Details details