I'm trying something new. When I was younger I used to can food. I grew up with my mom canning all summer long. However, as I got busier with working full time, I quit doing it. It's something I wanted to do a little of since retiring and after hearing from Donna about the canner she uses, I got one about a month ago. It's an electric pressure canner. Because it's electric you don't have something on your stove for hours. You do 8 pints or quarts at a time and it walks you through the process. There are quite a few foods that need the pressure canner to can safely, so this gives me the option to can things like meat.
We have a meat market fairly near us that has good meat from local farmers. They had a sale on ground beef this month, so I thought this was a good time to try out that canner.
Here's one of my jars of ground beef. I got 22 pints done; each is about 1 pound of meat. It's nice that it's shelf stable, I don't have to worry about the power going out and losing it. And, because it's cooked, it'll make it very easy to make a meal with it.
Later this month, they will have chicken on sale, so I'll be canning that too. It feels good to have this on the shelf, and it was actually kind of fun!
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