Making Soup using a pressure canner

Soup, is perfect as the days grow shorter and nights cooler, it's time to enjoy the warming of a bowl.
Instead of grabbing high calorie "comfort" foods, grab a jar of your homemade soup off the shelf.
A pressured cooker, filled with quart jars, will preserve the soup for a year.

A few hours making homemade soup, using a pressure cooker, will pay off when your home
late and hungry. Just heat and enjoy a delicious cup full of nutrients, flavor and fiber.
This homemade soup recipe has lots of fiber from the peas, beans and sweet potatoes.

Jars of Goodness
ready to be opened and heated
when your short on time.

Recipe

1 cup of dried peas
1 cup of dried navy beans
2 white sweet potatoes
4 carrots
greens, parsley, kale
bay leaf
homemade chicken stock
S & P
spices, thyme, garlic
water

soak white beans in water overnight.
in morning, drain beans, add all ingredients to stock pot
and additional water. keep warm, while sterilizing canning jars.
Follow canning directions using pressure canner.
Add bits of meat if desired.

This delicious soup
can be your dinner
when short on time,
by grabbing a jar off your shelf.
 

 

Ball: a good reference and recipe book
for all canning & preserving

 

 

HEY!, Hay is for horses.

Its the time of year to gather Hay.

Hay is not just for the horses; all the animals use the hay.

Horses eat the most hay.
Goats waste the hay.
Chickens lay eggs on the hay.
Dogs make a bed of the hay.
Deer nibble on the hay.
Cats warm themselves laying on the hay in the barn.
I mulch the hay.

Hauling the hay from field to farm.

Tightly rolled grass for all the animals.

Goats  nibbling the best hay in the middle of the roll.

Hay, a good crop for all.

November Foods

Back in the Kitchen again, after living outside for the summer.

Topping the food list this month is the last of the garden harvest:

• Pumpkins
• winter squash
• sweet potatoes
• Irish potatoes
• winter greens: collards, kale, mustard greens and lettuce
• onions

All these foods will provide much needed nutrients for our busy bodies.
These foods will keep over the winter months.
The pumpkins, squash, onions and potatoes are kept cool and dry out in the garden shed all winter.
The greens will keep out in the garden until January, here in our zone 6.

You've heard an apple a day will keep the doctor a way?  Try adding these colorful green & orange foods a day to keep the doctor away!


Back in the kitchen, oven on, baking the winter squash and steaming the greens.

A bunch of Chard



A row of Winter greens

Winter squash
full of vitamins A & C
antioxidants
fiber
and flavor