Canning, Pickling, and Dehydrating!

[Latestarter]

never had "real" creamed corn I guess... just the nasty canned "stuff" my dad used to try to force us to eat as kids... Didn't happen then and hasn't since. Kinda like my mom trying to force us to eat sauerkraut... that didn't go over well either and to this day, even the smell makes me nauseous.

 

[Latestarter]

Oh, and before I forget and move on, @mcjam all I can say is wow!! I'm impressed and wish I were even close to where you're at with self sufficiency!! No "pat on the back" imoji or you'd get several! I guess is as close as I can get.

 

[Baymule]

Pore @Latestarter you have really missed out on some fine eating! I like putting cream corn in the freezer, it saves lots of room and it is so good! It's also good cooked with lots of butter.......a little garlic......MMMMMMM...........Baymule goes to check freezer, lays out package of cream corn for tomorrow...

 

[Latestarter]

I love corn on the cob and kernel corn with butter and salt. Just the canned cream corn was so nasty... OK, so I'll reserve further judgement till I can sample REAL cream corn, done right.

 

[SkyWarrior]

I can and dehydrate. Pickling sometimes.

 

[Poka_Doodle]

We go simple and use a dehydrator

 

[HomesteaderWife]

I love all the replies here!

 

[Baymule]

I can, freeze, dehydrate, and make jelly and jam. I butcher chickens, clean wild game and process it. I don't like cleaning fish, but i can. I would rather catch fish, cook and eat, and let somebody else claim the glory of fillet.

 

[goatgurl]

i butcher a steer every other, a hog, a lamb, a couple of goats every year and rabbits, chickens and ducks as they are ready so I'm pretty well covered in the meat department. i either freeze or can the meat. i raise a garden, which was a failure this year due to rain and cold, then hot and dry and either freeze, can or dry that, make jellies and jams and put up fruit as it becomes available. i would like to dehydrate more than i do and will have to practice some. and like Baymule I'd much rather catch fish than clean them. have the goats for milk and make cheese, yogurt and ice cream with that. never tried hard cheese because we've always eaten it to fast

 

[Pamela]

I have canned 100 quarts and 24 pints of peaches, several qts of plum juice, and about 100 pints of different types of jellie/jams (strawberry, raspberry, elderberry, chokecherry). This has kind of been a slow year for me. We have several qts of applesauce from years past, so I just can't get in the groove to do that. Currently, we have our dehydrator full of venison jerky. We also glean russet potatoes out of local fields when invited to do so, probably equaling 600 lbs of spuds stored. I planted a 'feed' garden this year. I planted mostly squash and other things to feed to our animals, sunflowers (seeds for chickens, something to peck at through the winter), turnips, beets, pumpkins, zucchini, banana squash, spaghetti squash. We will eat and harvest what we want, but most of it is for the pigs, goats, chickens and ducks. I just found a dehydrating book in my bookcase that belonged to my mother, so I am excited to try many things out of that. I love harvest time. All that hard work finally turning into something.