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Simply Canning and More~ Canning Lids Deal ~ Chicken with Cherry Tomatoes
September 05, 2009

Hello,

Welcome to Simply Canning and More.

A simple life is the life for me. How about you?

I'm sitting here working on this letter to you with the sound of the pressure canner jiggling in the background. Green beans are in the canner and another load is waiting to go in as soon as these are done.

I am in full canning mode this month. Peaches, beans, corn and beets, are on my plate at the moment. My tomatoes are slooooowly getting ripe, and canning apples will be coming soon. I love apple season!

Last month I mentioned that our garden is a bit puny this year. God is good and I've found a great inexpensive source of green beans.

We pick peaches from the same orchard every year. When they found out that I am short on green beans they said they have an abundance... come on over. Not free, but they are practically giving us these beans at rock bottom prices. (VERY nice people) Canning those beans plus the ones from my own garden will suffice us for this year.

Lesson? Ask around, you never know where you may find what you need. I found green beans at the peach orchard.... go figure.

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In This Issue

Simple Recipe of the Month
Home Canning Question
Sharon Recommends
Tips for Kitchen Organization
Simply Canning Updates

Simple Recipe of the Month

Are you over-run with cherry tomatoes? Here is a great way to use them up.

Roast Chicken with Cherry Tomatoes.

4 cups cherry tomatoes, washed and stemmed.
1/4 cup olive oil
4 cloves garlic
1 tsp crushed red pepper, more if you like spicy, less if you don't
2 tsp caroway seed - or seasoning of your choice
Chicken - I use 8 drumsticks (for the boys) and 1 breast (for me!)

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Place chicken in baking pan. Roast for 30 minutes. (This is assuming you have bone in chicken. If you have chosen bonless chicken you won't need as much cooking time so skip this pre-cooking step.)

Toss tomatoes with olive oil, garlic, red pepper, and caroway.

When chicken has roasted for 30 minutes, remove from oven. Pour tomato mixture over chicken. Tomatoes will lie between and around the chicken pieces.

Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.

Place back in oven and roast until chicken is done. (about 30 more minutes) Serve with rice or buttered noodles if you choose.

Yum!

Home Canning Question

Sometimes liquid is lost from your jars during processing. This might mean you had incorrect head space. Or possibly you did not get out air bubbles before putting on the lids. It happens to me on occasion as well.

As long as you used the correct processing pressure, time and method you should be ok.

If however liquid loss is extreme you'll want to reprocess withing 24 hours or go ahead and freeze your product.

Oh and BTW I did get a canning terms page built. If you have words you'd like to see added let me know.

Sharon Recommends

I found a great deal on canning lids. Lehman's!

Click here to go to the canning section.

Do a search for "bulk canning jar lids". They have a great deal on these.

The bulk lids are a generic lid with no brand name. They come wrapped in brown paper sleeves. Works for me.

They also have a full line of canning equipment and lots of other fun stuff.

Grain mills, butter churns, dehydrators, apple peelers, cider presses, kerosene lamps, wind up radios, dairy supplies, poultry etc. Just about anything you might need for self suffieciency.

I also saw a wood fired canner. You use it out doors and build a fire underneath. I've never seen anything like it.

Interview - Grocery Cart Challenge

I'm sure most of you try to keep your grocery spending to a reasonable minimum. This month I did an interview with Gayle Bryant of The Grocery Cart Challenge. 60.00 dollars a week grocery and household budget for a family of 6. Check it out.

Kitchen Tips

My tip for the month. Have a drawer in
your kitchen designated the canning drawer.

Included you can see my canning funnel, jar lifter, magnetic wand, weight for my pressure canner, some freezer bags, canning lids, sure jel, masking tape. The tray on the left holds rings.

Hmmmm my sharpie is not there. Usually I keep one for marking my jars.

My canning record book lies right on top of all this stuff. This way it is all in one place and you don't have to go looking for everything each time you are going to work.

Until next time ~ Have a great month!

One of the best pieces of advise given to me regarding clearing out clutter. Ask yourself two questions,

1) Is this a useful item that I need and use?

2) Does this item make you smile?

If the answers are no..... out it goes.

Sharon

SimplyCanning Updates

Pages posted since the last Simply Canning and More letter.

Sep 5, 2009, Grocery Cart Challenge - Saving On Groceries

The Grocery Cart Challenge - Saving on Groceries go from 200 dollars a week to 60 dollars a week to feed a family of 6. Yes it is possible!

A simple life is the life for me. How about you?

In This Issue

Simple Recipe of the Month

Home Canning Question

Sharon Recommends

Interview - Grocery Cart Challenge

Kitchen Tips

Until next time ~ Have a great month!

SimplyCanning Updates

Sep 5, 2009, Grocery Cart Challenge - Saving On Groceries

Aug 30, 2009, Peach Pie Recipes

Aug 30, 2009, Canning Book for home preservers

Aug 30, 2009, Canning Fish must be done in a pressure canner

Aug 29, 2009, Pressure Canning Tomatoes with my MIL

Aug 29, 2009, Canning Terms and what they mean

Aug 29, 2009, Canning Jar lids

Aug 27, 2009, Canning Corn ~ Our jars ran dry?

Aug 26, 2009, Home Canning Asian Pears

Aug 23, 2009, Pickling Spice Recipe

Aug 22, 2009, Canning Peaches

Aug 21, 2009, Home Canning Questions

Aug 20, 2009, Pickled Peppers Rings

Aug 20, 2009, Bread and Butter Pickle Recipe

Aug 8, 2009, Liquid Loss while home canning food.

Aug 8, 2009, Storing your jars with home canned foods

Aug 7, 2009, Sterilizing Jars for home canning

Aug 6, 2009, Clear Jel

Aug 6, 2009, Simply Canning Site Map