Yes, indeedy! Alliums. According to Webster’s: any of a large genus (Allium) of bulbous herbs of the lily family including the onion, garlic, chive, leek, and shallot. Another low-acid food was assigned to us for this month’s Tigress’ Can Jam. But I love every member of this family, so I was pretty excited. And had…
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Can Jam 2: Carrots
Got that? Carrots. When Doris and Jilly chose “carrots” as the February assignment for Tigress’ Can Jam, I admit to trembling just a little. Carrots are not exactly a high-acid food, and therefore more susceptible to going bad on you if you don’t know what you’re doing, preserving-wise. And I readily confess that I don’t…
Can Jam 1: Citrus
For me, the main reason to live in South Florida is the ability go out in the winter and early spring to the local U-Pick fields to do our produce shopping. The downside to that is, it never fails that our eyes are bigger than our plans and we wind up picking too much. After…