Join us in Seattle at the Queen Anne Farmer’s Market for a canning demonstration by Sonja Skalbania, Master Food Preserver, from 5:45 to 6:45 pm. Canvolution members will be there! Kim O’Donnel, True/Slant writer and co-founder of Canning Across America, will be there from 6-7 pm to answer questions and give ideas. Join us! For [...]
Posts Tagged ‘preserving’
Can-A-Rama Prep: Starter Pickles
Getting ready for the big Can-A-Rama this weekend? Check out the article by Lucy Norris, author of Pickled: Preserving a World of Tastes and Traditions, on Starter Pickles. It has all the information you need to feel comfortable putting up your first batch of pickles. She’s even included a recipe!
Canning Fall
The summer that I first discovered home preserving, no produce was safe. There was something so gratifying about containing brightly colored fruits and vegetables in clear glass jars that I wanted to preserve everything in sight. Apples from neglected trees all over the neighborhood were captured in jars of sauce. I didn’t wait for tomatoes [...]
The Canvolution on Film
A few weeks ago, Seattle chef and veteran canner Diane LaVonne, of Diane’s Market Kitchen, shared her tips on the basics of canning. Videographer Len Davis captured the evening on film on location at the kitchen of AllRecipes.com: Check it out!
Aunt Dana’s Austrian Apricot Jam
Come summer in the Wachau Valley, Austria’s Napa, the apricot trees are so draped with fruit that growers have to prop up their tree limbs with wooden crutches. Orchard after orchard in this eighteen-mile stretch of land along the Danube drips with clusters of apricots—making kitchens all around the region the headquarters for edible delights [...]
Seattle Canners
City Hardware, an indie merchant in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, is offering a 10 percent discount for canning supplies! In order to receive the discount, you’ll need to say the secret word to the cashier: CANVOLUTION (what else would it be?!) Owner Marc Gimbel has generously offered the discount until Oct. 31. Discount applies for [...]
Can-A-Rama Prep: Pressure Canning 101
Preparing for the big Can-A-Rama weekend (August 29-30th)? Check out our Resources section for nifty how-to articles on canning and preserving. If you’re interested in pressure canning but don’t know where to start, take a look at the Pressure Canning 101 article by Lorene Edwards Forkner. It has all the info to help you delve into [...]
Sur La Table supports Canning Across America!
To help you with all your canning needs, we are offering $10 off your purchase of $50 or more at surlatable.com. Valid 5 days only: August 27 – August 31, 2009 PROMOTIONAL CODE: CAN09 Website shoppers input promotional code CAN09 at checkout. Valid for merchandise only. Excludes sale items, gift cards, prior purchases, cooking classes [...]
Recipe Spotlight: Lucy Norris’s Mixed Summer Pickles
Lucy Norris, author of Pickled: Fruits, Roots, More… Preserving a World of Tastes and Traditions (2003), has kindly shared her recipe for: Mixed Summer Pickles Check it out!
Yes, We Can, Freeze, Dry, Pickle, Salt. . .
Until fairly recently (certainly within the past couple of generations) families harvested crops in the fall and stored enough food to get them through until the next harvest. Today preserving is enjoying renewed popularity and extending the harvest is HIP! “Canvolution” has quickly entered the digital lexicon. For our grandparents and great-grandparents, a routine part [...]
