Okay, so I'm not sure whether I'm writing this out of romanticized (and plagiarized) notions after watching Julie and Julia or not, but welcome to my canning blog! Here I hope to share, publicly, my random successes and, more likely, my epic failures as I attempt to master the basics of home canning.
Why can? Well, I think the idea crystallized in my head one day this past winter when I was standing in a grocery store, staring ruefully into a bin of rather pathetic-looking red peppers from Chile with the astronomical price tag of $4.99/lb. Flash back to four months earlier when I was standing outside a vegetable stall at the amazing St. Lawrence Farmers' Market in Toronto. On this fine summer day, there were half-bushel baskets of glorious red peppers for $10.00. $10.00 for 15 pounds of peppers, versus $5.00 for 1 pound. But August-Chris was a narcissist who didn't care about December-Chris's plight. He just looked at the half-bushel for a moment, shrugged and walked away thinking, "What on earth am I going to do with that many peppers?" Now December-Chris found himself consigned to a tasteless, watery, EXPENSIVE fate.
No more! I vowed to myself that, starting the next spring, every time I found seasonal cheap local produce, I would buy it and somehow preserve it. I'd never canned before, so I bought myself all the necessary equipment, a bunch of books, and I waited.
Well, it's May now, and spring has sprung, and the first crops of the new season are out, so it's time to begin the experiment!
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