Saturday, December 21, 2013

What I canned this Summer and Autumn!

Here are  some of the stuff I canned this year during Summer and Autumn. I didn't photo everything because it was difficult to drag all the jars from the Cantina, so I just put few. Here is what I made:


1- 40 jars of tomato sauces (1-plain sauce with just some salt. 2-Savory Sauce with onion, garlic, thyme, basil, etc)2-Five Jars of tomato paste. Yup, I made it from the tomato peel!  3-Four jars of Ketchup.

4- 10 jars of Madras pickle (made from aubergine and spices; it is hot)


 5-10 jars of pickles sweet peppers, some under vinegar, some under olive oil
 6- Five jars of pickles artichoke under olive oil. Made late Spring during the season.      6-pickled hot chili.      7-Pickled green tomatoes under olive oil.       8-4 big jars of pickles olives (I gave 2 to my landlady. I first soaked them in a mix of ash and water; it is an antique recipe I got from a farmer friend)      9-Apricot jam         10- Peach and Lavender jam-            I also put into the freezer: strawberries (during the season), sweet bell pepper, fava beans, zucchini cuts into cubes to use for risotto.- I also dried the following: chili, mint, thyme, rose-hip, pomegranate peels, orange peels (still in the process).

A close-up shot of some of the olive and others.

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