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Critic-Turned-Cook Steels Herself for Canning Season with Canning Across America

Just wait until you have that "taste of summer" in a jar this winter. You'll be glad you invested the time and trouble.

I've been canning for years now, mostly tomatoes, tomato sauce, salsa, bread & butter pickles, chow chow and sometimes dill pickles.

Rarely have I had anything go wrong.

What scares me is pressure canning. I screwed up my courage this summer tried it with green beans and stewed tomatoes and okra. They have exploded on me yet, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Good luck and have fun!

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For the laddies- Hottest Food Network Dude?

Alton and Tyler
Either can take over my kitchen.

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Critic-Turned-Cook Steels Herself for Canning Season with Canning Across America

Just wait until you have that "taste of summer" in a jar this winter. You'll be glad you invested the time and trouble.

I've been canning for years now, mostly tomatoes, tomato sauce, salsa, bread & butter pickles, chow chow and sometimes dill pickles.

Rarely have I had anything go wrong.

What scares me is pressure canning. I screwed up my courage this summer tried it with green beans and stewed tomatoes and okra. They have exploded on me yet, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Good luck and have fun!

From Talk

For the laddies- Hottest Food Network Dude?

Alton and Tyler
Either can take over my kitchen.

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Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'

Cheese grits or macaroni cooked in canned tomatoes.

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Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'

I was making a chocolate pound cake for my brother's birthday this spring. It was a cake recipe I've made many, many times with great success.

The batter was beautiful. Thick and creamy but once in the oven it started to rise and rise and rise. Then it collapsed. So I trashed it and started over.

The second cake did the same thing. Into the trash it went. I was beside myself.

Was it bad eggs, bad flour, bad butter or what? So I had a cocktail and went to bed.

Woke up in the middle of the night with the revelation that maybe, just maybe it WAS the flour.

Sure enough, the bag of plain flour I'd grabbed at the grocery store the day before, wasn't plain at all and I'd made two cakes with self-rising flour.

Off to store at 7 a.m. for more eggs, butter and PLAIN flour for cake number 3 and it was the perfect pound cake like the ones I'd always baked.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

Friday lunch at Grandma's and all the chicken and dumplings a 5-year-old could possible eat.

She would drape the long strands of dough over her arm as she dropped the dumplings in the simmering pot of stock.

I make them now, the same way for my niece.

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Cook the Book: Eugenia Bone's 'Well-Preserved'

Canning season's already begun for me. I put up strawberry preserves last weekend.
Tomatoes, cucumbers, beans and okra are growing in the garden waiting their turn in the summer.

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You live where?

Rock Hill, South Carolina

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KitchenAid help, please!

Classic. Consider the meat grinding attachment, too.

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Cook the Book: 'Martha Stewart's Cooking School'

Meat Loaf 101 from her magazine many years ago. It's the only meat loaf I'll bother to eat.

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Cook the Book: 'Giada's Kitchen'

Tomato basil made with plucked-from-the-garden ingredients and lots of garlic.

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Favorite summer food- now and from childhood?

Tomato sandwiches; fried okra, creamed corn and tomatoes; damson pie; fried green tomatoes and peach ice cream.

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Looking For A Particular South Carolina Restaurant

Sounds like it might be SeeWee in Awendaw on US 17 north of Mount Pleasant.

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

Hard to choose. I started out in food blog land with I Was Just Hungry.

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

Serious Eats and The Wicked Noodle. Looks like a lot of people like Smitten Kitchen, so I'm going to have to check that out!

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

Serious Eats and The Wicked Noodle. Looks like a lot of people like Smitten Kitchen, so I'm going to have to check that out!

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

Serious Eats and The Wicked Noodle. Looks like a lot of people like Smitten Kitchen, so I'm going to have to check that out!

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

I like Serious Eats of course. I also like Smitten Kitchen.

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

My favorite food blogs are this one and Culinate.

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

Serious Eats is my favorite. Simply Recipes is my second favorite.

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

Baking Bites and Simply Recipes. I want to cook and eat pretty much everything from these sites!!

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

I love so many sites. I love Serious Eats (of course), PW's and any cake blog. I have a major sweet tooth.

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

Pioneer Woman Cooks is one I go to all the time.. love the step by step pictures and delicious home cooked meals :)

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

Pioneer Woman Cooks is one I go to all the time.. love the step by step pictures and delicious home cooked meals :)

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/ is one of my favorites (along with SE, of course!) - her entire blog receives several visits a day from me as I check to see if there is anything new - I discovered this delightful site this summer - I've tried several of her recipes, and am smitten - I'd really love to win her cookbook!

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

Serious Eats has been my go to site for a long time...consistent quality, informed contributors, great topics. What's not to love!

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

PWC is my favorite. A second would be Bakerella.

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