Canning ham

Every Easter we eat dinner at my parents house. One of our favorites is our Easter ham! But this year, due to my Dads sodium restrictions, the entire leftover ham came home with me. Not complaining y'all. Ham is my jam (see what I did there). I knew that we'd never eat the entire ham

Quite a few stores are clearing out their ham supplies this week. A few days ago, I happened upon a deal that was too good to pass up. I ended up buying 4 fully cooked holiday hams at a great price…

Another of my rainy week canning sessions using up some of my sales that I ran across this month already. Ham and white bean soup is one of ...

Ham is LOW ACID and must be pressure canned. Be safe and Be sanitary. Ham was on sale this week $1.27 /lb. Still not as good as the sale prices on major holidays but not bad at all. Truthfully it was one of the few edible items worth buying this week. I selected the bigger of the two (10 lbs) and decided I wanted to try something a little different. I dug my cutters out of the drawer and found one that fit the inside of the 1 pint wide mouth. I wanted to do sliced rounds a little short of an…

Canning meat is one of the best uses of canning know-how. It allows you to purchase meat when it's at its most affordable, and then easily turn it into something that will last for years without spoiling. Plus, in my opinion, it actually improves most meat! (Because the canning process makes the meat super tender and moist.) Best of all - having canned meat on hand is super convenient and really speeds up meal-making. But not very many people are used to eating canned meat, so it can seem…

Home canning authorities say not to home can cured meats. The issue is that curing changes the density of the meat, and that that changed density has not been tested for safety.

Canning ham and bean soup at home provides quick and easy healthy meals straight from the pantry shelves.

This is hands down my very favorite potato soup! It is the one I grew up eating, as it is the one my grandma (Nonny) always made. I love to have this on my shelf at the ready. If you don’t ca…

Home-canned soups has got to be one of the best ‘pantry meals’ you can make for yourself. Here I go into what to harvest from your garden, tools you need, ingredients, and step by step …

Whether you're canning leftovers from Thanksgiving, or buy extra turkeys for storage, this post will cover how to can turkey meat for year-round meat. Every Thanksgiving, I always buy a few turkeys on sale AFTER