I LOVE those 6 days.
They are sacred.
Don't mess with 'em.
During this 6 day stretch I put it to good use.
Instead of watching soap operas and eating bonbons I canned.
And canned.
And then I canned.
I made Spaghetti Sauce.
I made Connie's Tomato Soup.
I made Connie's Salsa.
Then I made Jan's Salsa.
(I don't think Jan has a blog, I got it off FB. I used to work for her when I was still a hairdresser. She was my boss.)
I can't decide which one I like better.
Connie's is ahead so far as we've tasted as I canned.
We're having a taste test later.
I say later because NO ONE!
Not Oprah!
Not even the President of the United States!
Nobody gets to touch or taste this deliciousness for awhile.
For now it's just eye candy.
It was too much work for people to just eat it!
I have been canning for 31 years.
This year for the first time in history.
I have filled
EVERY. SINGLE. JAR!!!!!
So you can understand why I don't want anything eaten.
Can't you?
No?
Really?
Have you ever canned before?
I might share with Em.
But I'll have to pray about it first.
I've canned... once... and I'm not sure you can convince me to do it ever again. Certainly not in 106 degree weather.
ReplyDeletetoo bad those tomatoes ripen when the weather is so sucky hot.
you rock... I think I've mentioned that before... but it's true.
Your post made me smile. Good job on getting every single jar filled. :)
ReplyDeleteListen, I will give you my address if you send me a jar. I will even let you stalk me outside my window, like Edward AND introduce you to my naked Neighbors. Although, they have been completely modest lately. Boo.
ReplyDeleteWow! That's a lot of canning.
ReplyDeleteI need to get back in the groove of canning.
Nothing prettier, or more satisfying than bottles filled with yummy stuff!
LOL..pray about it huh?! I so admire you..working plus canning! I have done so much of it..too much, I am burnt out and I just don't want to do it anymore! But you are wonderful and so is your bottled goods! :D
ReplyDeleteI am so impressed. I wouldn't want anyone to eat it either, that is hard work.
ReplyDeleteI really admire you. I have never canned. It all looks so good. You should really be proud of all that hard work.
ReplyDeleteI remember my Mom canning tomatoes. There were more swear words, and stress and contention that I get the shakes just thinking about it.
ReplyDeleteHats off to you.
Now pass the salsa - the hot kind!
I would love to come up there and can with you. We should plan that. I loved canning foods but rarely have ever done it.
ReplyDeleteOnce in about 5 years.
So I'm due to can :)
I'm ahead so far!!?! Woo hoo! I don't blame you for wanting to keep the jars as is until further notice. Canning isn't easy! But it's oh so satisfying when it's done!
ReplyDeleteYou're amazing! Maybe next time you get 6 days off you can eat bon bons - your homemade ones of course.
Pray hard girl! Pray that the Salsa makes it to M, and C, and A, and Mo, and K, and B, and Ke, and H!!! Pray like you've never prayed before - I'll bring the chips!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYour canning is beautiful - I don't even can and I can totally understand why you don't want anyone to touch it!
Are you still praying?
i love, love, love seeing bottled fruit on my shelves. i say fruit cause that is all i have ever done. it has been a few years since i have canned anything. time to get kicking, don'tchathink?
ReplyDeleteI've seen my ex-MIL can before and it always looked like a lot of work. Plus it made her extra crabby and with that witch, that's really saying something!
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't share either. LOL!
Have you been stamping???
You go girl, and I am just as impressed with you storage area. I would die for something like that. Well done.
ReplyDeleteWay to go, Idaho! You are my canning mentor. We didn't garden this year - obviously - so I was actually GLAD that I didn't have to can anything. Pooo - I'm so unworthy!
ReplyDeleteBut apples are loading our trees in Menan and that means applesauce, apple butter, apple pie filling -- all that schmack -- just waiting to be canned. *sigh*
Looks amazing! Good for you for being ambitious on those six days. I probly would've gone for the bon bons... :)
ReplyDeleteLast week I canned 36 jars of pork loin and made Hot Pepper Jelly. Does that count? We get a second crop of tomaotes in October. I can't wait. I'd like to have 365 pints of Salsa. The recipe that my SIL gave me, I just love and I can eat it right out of the jar with a spoon. I don't even need any chips :) I need a jar for every day of the year, and I ain't sharin, that is unless you come to visit!
ReplyDeleteThose jars are gorgeous!!!
ReplyDeleteI've never canned alone. Always kind of watched and helped (a very little) my mom when I was much younger.
It's a lot of work I think, and I'm not sure I would spend six glorious days off doing that. You're amazing and awesome for doing it!!!
I definitely wouldn't want anyone touching it for a while afterwards.
Mmm. Freshly canned salsa. YUM.
ReplyDeleteEye candy?
Are you kidding me?
Matthew M WINS hands down.
or perhaps you like 'EM older.
George Clooney nice eye candy for you? LOL.
Love ya babe!
I am now singing my rendition of ABBA's "Dancing Queen" only I'm calling it "Canning Queen" for you.
ReplyDeleteI have canned before but I'm sure I am rusty at it now. I need to get back in the swing of it - yikes!
I have never canned, but the idea has come to my mind occassionally. My grandma just sent me a jar of her apple butter...heaven in a jar!
ReplyDeleteYour canning looks awesome! I can understand your philosophy! I love to make salsa! I need to can it! Thanks for inspiring me!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! Let's trade pumpkins for salsa! Ha Ha
Thanks for visiting, you always brighten my day!
Love, Brenda
You are truly amazing!! Seriously look at all your hard work just sittitng on those shelves! WOW!
ReplyDeleteI've never canned, maybe tagged along my mother in law while she did it, but my cans come from Costco.
I'm in love with your pantry!
AWESOME LADY!!! YOU ARE MY CANNING HERO!
ReplyDeletewell and my regular hero too. (:
i can understand the no-touchy rule for sure. my mom used to have her own rules about canning....the finished product was soooooooo rationed out. lol.
aside from helping my mom when i was a wee little girl, i haven't canned yet. want to. am afraid of what i don't know...well, and botulism.
....and GIGI? do i WANT to know how you can pork loin????? i'm almost afraid to ask. (:
I like Cherie's idea!
ReplyDeleteI will pray for some Tomato soup.
I have never had canned.. and it sounds like it NEEDS to be IN my belly!!!!
PS: You are on FB? Why are we not friends? PSH.....
Okay, SO I just feel like the luckiest girl in the world that I don't have "Eye candy"... I actually get to enjoy your generosity of sending your hubby to work with a jar of homemade salsa just for me!!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE YOUR FOOD STORAGE ROOM!! I had to click on it and see your beautiful jars you canned.
SO, because I can be nosey as well, I would LOVE to know what is in the jars that have beans in them. Did you bottle just beans only, OR, did you bottled bean soup? I would love to know and maybe get recipes, or instructions. That looks like a great way to preserve some of the many pounds of dried beans that we have stored.
You are going to LOVE the tomato soup!! It tastes SO yummy and fresh and you would swear that it wasn't out of a bottle when you are eating it.
SO happy that you were able to enjoy your 6 sacred and precious days off from work and that you were able to have such a productive time. I still can't believe your bottled beauty you worked so hard on.
What a JOY and honor it is to call you my friend!!
Don't blame you a bit!
ReplyDeleteWow! I'm impressed! I haven't canned very much and whenever I do, I am amazed at how exhausting it is!
ReplyDeleteThe bottles are beautiful!
I've always wondered why those things just sit on a shelf after SO much work went into making/canning them! But they do look pretty :) Let's hope for a natural disaster or some state of emergency that will justify opening up a few jars, eh? :)
ReplyDeleteI haven't canned for years.
ReplyDeleteWay to go--I'm very impressed.
That's funny, I have a big old vat of spaghetti sauce simmerin' right now. I freeze it though...betcha didn't know I was the 'freeze queen' heeeheehe!
ReplyDeleteNow it looks like your pantry is quite set for the winter.
May God bless your beautiful day!
Hi my sweet friend (I am at the dang library typing this)
ReplyDeleteYES I USED TO BE SO DOMESTIC...goddessish
When we lived in B.C. where everything grows in abundance, I canned EVERYTHING
My storage room looked like yours.
pretty
don't touch
I even bottled salmon
it's kinda like when I clean the toilet. YOU DON'T WANT ANYONE TO USE IT FOR AWHILE.
Um...I just lysoled the bathroom, could you please just go piddle outside, thankyou
I love it that you get six days off!!!!! that is way cool. And major props to you for being so industrious. I would have wasted it on frivolous things like writing and sleeping
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I'm ASTOUNDED at how much you've canned! Dude, that's awesome. Secondly, I can totally related. I don't can, but I freeze, and I also do not want to touch the things I've put up. It just feels weird so eat something so quickly that you spent so much time preparing. But it's going to get eaten anyway, so why does it matter? I don't know. It just does!!!
ReplyDeleteYou go girl!!! First time filling all those jars!! I don't even know how to can! I've gotta learn!
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