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Ha ha, that’s funny about the Torani syrups! I actually dislike the peach one. 😅 It’s going to get thrown away as soon as ant season arrives. The other one will get moved to the fridge unless it’s gone by then. Major battle with ants here every spring through fall. I’ve been loathe to use any...

Front closet would make an excellent pantry! Probably not too far from the kitchen. Nicer than going up and down the stairs all the time. Of course, the trade off for most people would be, would moving all the regular stuff people keep in their front closet end up being more of a hassle than...

Do we have a thread with tips on how to get the best use out of vacuum sealers? I couldn’t find one. I know they get mentioned randomly here and there on various different threads. From what I’ve read, all of you that have them love yours. So for quite a while now I’ve been mulling over the...

So the yield from my lemons was better this time. 5 cups of juice from 6# of lemons. (As opposed to the 4 cups I got from 10# last time!) Translated into 3 pints of concentrate, which will make 3 half gallons of lemonade. Oh, plus a half cup leftover that made about 2 cups of lemonade in the...

CC, something tells me you got mystery chicks there. Silver Laced Wyandottes are supposed to look like this: They’re very cute though. No wonder your doggie loves them!

Ok I just measured the dog, and I’d say we did get about 5 inches.

Depending on the source I look at, we got between 3.5 and 5 inches of snow today. I can say for sure, it’s higher than a dachshund’s belly! :gig

Butter and cream cheese prices are almost double what they used to be. Milk has only gone up a little. All the meat prices are stupid high, but sometimes I see salmon and boneless chicken breast for close to what they used to be. Pork shoulder roast used to be cheap, and it’s still cheaper, but...

@Mini Horses I have read you and @baymule and others talking about canning beans without soaking. I looked it up before I did mine, and none of the dry bean methods are tested approved recipes. So I decided that I would stick with tested recipes for now and hold off on branching out (rebel...

Ha ha thanks! That came with some Swiss Miss cocoa in the grocery store several years back. One of my favorite Christmas/winter decors.

Man, @baymule you sure have had one awful winter of rain rain rain. You deserve some sunshine 🌞 for a while! My goose pen is a muddy mess, but it’s nothing like what you have had to put up with.

I can identify with the momentum that comes with the sunshine. It is such a nice change from the weeks of gloomy weather! ☀️

So today’s canning kind of was a large amount. I did 2 pounds of great northern beans and 2 pounds of pinto beans. I forgot to soak them overnight, so I started at 9am with the boil 2 minutes and sit one hour method for the pintos, and the pressure cook 2 minutes method for the gr northerns...

It was for sure the confidence of use that sold it for me. Now that I’m familiar with using it, I think I would be more willing to try the manual kind. Heck, I’m already more confident using my older GoWISE, since I can see how similar it is to the Presto electric one. The Presto owner’s manual...

Oh, thank you for the update. I was wondering, but I figured you would have said if it had gotten delivered. I’m glad your cc company took care of it. What canner do you use for big batch stuff? How many jars does it fit? Now that I’m into canning, I’ve been starting to think about what I...

No, I got the Presto. I’m doing my best to get some use out of it. My new hobby. 😂

Today’s fun play time in the kitchen: So it’s a good thing I’m pretty much doing this for fun, and not to save money. This is peach lemonade concentrate, and all I got out of two 5# bags of lemons from Kroger! :ep (Plus 5 peaches from my freezer.) The 5# bags of lemons were on sale for $5.99...

Thanks! Now I know to shake them up a bit. I will do that.

So, the photo I posted above was hot out of the canner. You can see that the blueberries floated to the top, and filled up the whole 1 inch of headspace. 9 hours later, and now that they’ve cooled off, the liquid level has gone way down. And the blueberries are sticking up from the liquid and...

You are making great progress! Slow and steady, you will get there!