Green Beans

[Paddy]

Green beans are good.  Plain green beans cooked al dente.  Nada mas.

[mtnbkr]

I particularly like chow-chow.
Fried okra: good.
Okra &Tomatoes:better!

QFT

I also like Okra, 'maters, and corn.

Chris

[The Rabbi]

I particularly like chow-chow.
Fried okra: good.
Okra &Tomatoes:better!

QFT

I also like Okra, 'maters, and corn.

Chris

I didnt know there was another way to make it.
My gram used to make it by dicing bell pepper and green onion.  Sauteeing those until clear.  Adding sliced okra and cooking until it begins to slime.  Then adding stewed tomatoes and shoepeg corn.  A bay leaf and some basil, salt and pepper.

[mtnbkr]

Hmm.  Never thought about adding green pepper or onion (love both of them).  I'll have to try that.

Chris

[charby]

Larry,

What kind of pressure canner do you use?

Mike are you looking into pressure caning? I used to do the water-bath method for jelly and salsa but so many cultivares of tomatoes are lower in acid and I wanted to get into low acid veggies that I went strictly to pressure caning. I even do jelly and fruit that way.

I have a Presto 23 quart pressure canner, I can fit 16 pint jars with ease in it per batch.

I even can meat now, I have 25 chickens I am getting this fall.

-C

[K Frame]

I've toyed with the idea before.

My family has done a lot of canning over the years, but only high acid things in water baths.

It's just a question of whether I really want to do pressure canning or not. I'm on the fence.

If I get a large enough pressure cooker I can do small batches of things like jelly.

[charby]

Ever thought about canning meat? Canned beef and chicken are the cat's rear.

-C

[mtnbkr]

Ever thought about canning meat? Canned beef and chicken are the cat's rear.

-C

That doesn't sound appetizing.

Chris

[charby]

Ever thought about canning meat? Canned beef and chicken are the cat's rear.

-C

That doesn't sound appetizing.

Chris

Its does now that I think about it.

Okay canned meat is one of the good things in life.

Chris you need to get Mike to pressure can and have him can up your deer. 

-C

[K Frame]

I have no doubt that his daughter would can me.

And no, I've never thought about canning meat although I know a LOT of people who do it.

Although I have to admit that chicken canned in BBQ sauce would probably be pretty darned good.

[charby]

Older chickens taste better canned than fryer and broilers. I don't know why but it just works that way.

When you cold pack meat to can you have to be careful how much fluid you put in the jar.

BBQ chicken in a jar wouldbe pretty tasty

-C

[K Frame]

Older chickens taste better canned than fryer and broilers. I don't know why but it just works that way.

When you cold pack meat to can you have to be careful how much fluid you put in the jar.

BBQ chicken in a jar wouldbe pretty tasty

-C

Why?

Because older chicken has time to develop muscle mass and fiber. Most chickens you get these days are between 10 and 12 weeks old when they're butchered. Not nearly enough time to develop any decent flavor.

Some years ago I had a chicken dinner where the chicken was about a year old. It was so incredibly different that I was sure at first that I wasn't eating chicken, but instead some exotic game bird.

I'd think that the best thing, flavor wise, to can would be the parts of the bird that get the most work, and hence have a chance to develop the most flavor, the legs and thighs.