Pickles- dills or bread and butter. Yum.

I don't do pickles any more, my vintage recipe isn't approved to current standards and I haven't found one for crisp pickles we like as well :(

I love having my own tomatoes. Green beans (which I cannot eat frozen) I make a case of raspberry jelly for my BIL every year, so simple and he thinks I'm genius :)

This year I canned a few clams for dips and chowder, but had to campaign for some for canning - somehow clamming has become a group event any more with family having a house at the beach. We meet, dig together, clean them together, eat together, there's never any left.

My biggest annual canning job is tuna but it's a household staple - I don't think I've picked up canned at the store in 20 years.

I've heard wonderful things about Annie's salsa and have been wanting to try it, maybe this year.

I have always done jams and jellies. Had high hopes last year of doing tomato sauce, pickles, canned veggies, salsa, pie fillings. Same ambitious plans this year.

Peppadew peppers - AWESOME!!

I haven't made it in a few years, but Tomato Soup.
emmmmmmmmmm,yummy
cAROL

tomatoes
green beans
a soup base of onions, okra, and tomatoes
fig preserves
watermelon rind pickle
watermelon rind preserves

They're all easy, yummy, and so pretty on the shelf.

Barbara in Virginia

My favorite is applesauce. Love that smell of boiling apples!

Sweet Pepper Jelly, raspberry ginger fig jam, 9 day pickles (I use an old recipe but there's so much vinegar in it, there is no possible way for it to spoil :)

girlgroup, my old recipe for snappy crisp dills (with a really interesting history - Ma Kettle's, The Egg and I book Kettles) was 1 qt vinegar to 3 of water, am told that doesn't work with vinegar currently 5% instead of more like 7% many years ago. I tried making it a 50/50 mix and it changed the taste too much, made them too pucker-y. More wrong with it than that really, they weren't BWB either - I miss them.

I only started growing tomatoes last year and didn't have very many left over. So I made my own sun dried tomatoes to use in other recipes over the winter. They turned out pretty well and taste great in pasta sauces. I didn't want to have the oven on when it was so hot outside so I used the toaster oven and then froze them. :o)

I found annie's salsa 3 yrs ago and it has become my all time favorite to can...but this past summer I canned alot of peach preserves that are just awesome too and I canned fig preserves are good too,but are not a favorite of mine.
moonphase