What are you canning now?

[ducks4you]

DD (chef) is going to try her hand at making a brisket into corned beef.
We are NOT going to use the pink salt. Something about toxicity...
So...it is likely to look more gray.
But, I LOVE corned beef and cabbage!!
These are not Promised meals, they are of necessity.
The ribs will probably be bbq'd. That would be great with scalloped potatoes, and/or mac n cheese.
Dang, we will be eating good this winter!!!

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Order some Tender Quick to add to the brisket. It will really improve the flavor.

 

[ducks4you]

I have passed that on to DD.
THANKS!! It's always good to know what to use when you haven't done it before.

 

[ducks4you]

Sitting on 11 more quarts total of turkey broth this month.
Just made another turkey yesterday, so today there should be about 5 more quarts to pressure can.
Then...I have a collection of beef bones, steaks and roasts leftovers frozen that need to be brothed.

 

[ducks4you]

Pressure canning 4 more quarts, as we speak. There were all of the bones and a LOT of turkey in the 2 crock pots.
I have 3 more meals for Eva in the fridge!
I find that, after pouring the contents through a metal colandar and using a meat fork you can "hear" the bones that you cannot see. No bones in the dog food.
It is REALLY rich broth, too.
The 2 crock pots are cooling, and I will start beef broth tonight, before I go to bed. My kitchen freezer is bursting!

 

[ducks4you]

Started 2 crockpots with beef soup bones, t bone steak bones and some other beef roast bones.
I will add some vegetables to them tomorrow and I plan to pressure can the results on Friday, then keep doing beef batches until I get through the bones in the freezers.
I am thanking my past self for 3 extra 12 packs of quarts that I had stored out of the way in the basement pantry!

 

[ducks4you]

Cleaned out a ziplock bag of onions and added 2 packages to the two crockpots boiling down beef and bones.
I have been cleaning out the ziplock bags to use to help start seeds, which will be soon.

 

[ducks4you]

Last week I washed up and put away the smaller crock pot, but I added water and the last bone in my kitchen freezer, a lamb bone with some meat from Easter.
4 quarts of lamb broth now.

 

[ducks4you]

DH and I made chili. I had to play "hurry up" on softening the beans, which I did by boiling in my big electric turkey sized roaster, then simmering for a few hours--

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--that we use for chili batches. I made Way more beans than we needed, 4 quarts of leftovers, so I pressure canned them. I kept them cool for a few days, started the canner with cold beans and cold water.
DH has been talking forever about perfecting a baked beans recipe, so here are 4 quarts that he can do ANYTHING with.