First Canning Experience!

A few friends and I decided to venture into the world of preserving food via canning. In hindsight, we were overly ambitious, and I will always remember that epic day where we canned WAY too many things for have 5 novices! We did the pressure cooker method, which is safe for canning veggies, meat, poultry, and seafood. It was an intense labor of love, but by the end of the day we had canned heirloom tomatoes, peaches and blackberries, and had made blueberry jam and peach jam. I took a million pics because the process was so interesting to me. And now I am awaiting my new canning pot so I can continue making jam and start learning how to pickle things (for the ultimate bloody mary of course!)

Can't wait for my next preserving adventure, hoping it will be soon!

xoxo Lish

Heirloom tomatoes from the garden

Blueberries from farmers market

Blackberries 

Peaches!

 Scoring tomatoes...

 Flash boil for the tomatoes

Ice Bath

Skin is now easy to remove!

Naked tomatoes

Adding lemon juice to act as preserving agent

Lids on and ready to place in pressure cooker!

 It's scary business

Cooking the blueberry jam

Yummers

  

Our resourceful funnel ;)

The steam from the pressure cooker FREAKS ME OUT.

Mason Jar Lids

 So fresh n' so clean Mason Jars

Taking a much needed break

Blackberries to preserve

Blackberry syrup

Yummy peach and tomato salad for dinner

Mozzarella salad

 BACON. Nuf said.

Salmon pan fried in bacon renderings, topped with bacon and fresh herbs. DROOL.

L to R: Ericka, James, Kaylee. Jon is somewhere...

Ericka & Kaylee