The Damsel in Dis Dress
Posted in preserving on Oct 14th, 2009
Remember the Damsel asked y’all to give a shoutout to her brother-in-law, who is taking cancer treatments? She’s happy to let you know he’s finished with those and is doing well. He mailed the Damsel a big, heavy box. To her surprise, inside was two GINORMOUS sunflower heads. He’d grown them himself. She pictured they’d [...]
Posted in preserving on Oct 12th, 2009
The Damsel is having one of those weeks. Sprog #3 is getting ready to leave for a church mission, so things are hectic at the cottage by the mountains. The Damsel considered proclaiming it an Old School holiday, but then her darling sister came to the rescue with another brilliant guest post: I’ve been a [...]
Posted in preserving on Oct 8th, 2009
Today’s lesson is easy as kindergarten. If you have a lot of peppers in your garden, or even have an extra you bought at the store, you can freeze them as easy as pepper pie. The Damsel wondered if this basket might be a “peck” of unpickled peppers. A little research reveals: peck (pk) a [...]
Posted in preserving on Sep 1st, 2009
Guess you can tell what time of year it is here at the Damsel’s cottage, with all the preserving, etc. posts. The end of summer, the harvest season. So what about freezing tomatoes? Does that work? It actually works quite well, the main drawback being limited freezer space. And, of course, the possibility that your [...]
Posted in preserving on Aug 29th, 2009
Drying tomatoes is a Damsel-approved method of preserving tomatoes for eating later. She likes doing it because: No slaving over hot stoves, as opposed to canning. No peeling. Takes up way, way less storage space. The end product is very versatile. To dry tomatoes, you need only tomatoes and a heat source. Yes, you can [...]
Posted in preserving on Aug 21st, 2009
The Damsel made her first batch of salsa for the year today. There’ll be more. The Damsel would like to inform you that canning salsa isn’t tricky. The skill level is similar to boiling water. But it ain’t for sissies, either. It takes a while. There’s a good bit of working on your feet, and [...]
Posted in preserving on Aug 14th, 2009
The Damsel and her sister went completely insane and bought 40 pounds of turkey meat from a farmer. It had been cut off the bone, in great slabs of quivery raw meat. The Damsel is a tentative carnivore. She eats meat happily, but doesn’t like to think about it too much. She likes it cut [...]
Posted in preserving on Aug 5th, 2009
If you have herbs growing in your garden and want to preserve some for later, yes, it’s very “old school” to dry them as we did in this lesson. But dried herbs are one thing, and fresh herbs another. Here’s one method of preserving more of that fresh taste: freezing. This method works with most [...]
Posted in preserving, thrifty on Jul 31st, 2009
Y’all know about this, right? “This” being putting whole bananas in the freezer? Sometimes the Damsel is enticed by banana displays at the grocery store. They look so perfectly perfect, and the Damsel buys them for her sprog. Who sometimes eat them. And sometimes the bananas get looking, well, less pristine. And no matter how [...]
Posted in preserving, Uncategorized on Jul 29th, 2009
It is the Damsel’s wish that you know how to preserve food. It’s one of the basic skills of becoming more self-reliant. When you put stuff in glass jars and seal it, it’s called “canning” or “bottling” or “putting up.” And the easiest thing to “put up,” in the Damsel’s humble opinion, is apricots. So [...]
