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A Quilty Cannery

Bringing the best of the past into today

Welcome! It’s a pleasure to welcome you to this passion project of mine... chronicling a quarantine spent growing and preserving food and making quilts to keep the people I love warm and cozy up. Whether you’re a beginner looking to learn, or a seasoned professional exploring new ideas, A Quilty Cannery is here to inspire. Check out the latest posts below.

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2022 In Review! A Cannery Update

I definitely did not can as much this year as I did in the past two years, but I have continued to can, steadily, especially some of my...

Ugly (but delicious) Chicken

It's been a few years since I canned raw-packed chicken. They look a bit of a mess (see below), and are a hassle to clean the empty...

A Snowy Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas! I'm sitting in my kitchen, making some holiday-inspired treats, listening to Christmas tunes, and looking out on a very...

A Thanksgiving Canning & Garden Recap

This year, Thanksgiving was bigger than originally planned, and so it was a great opportunity to make some homemade stock and make some...

Roasted Tomato Soup

Earlier in September, I posted a few times about my second tomato canning run of the year (what to do with the peels, and canning crushed...

A Soupy Start to Autumn

Yesterday was the official first day of autumn, and the weather is finally (and quite suddenly) colder and wetter. I have a few days off...

Canning Tomatoes in '22: Take 2

We picked up another peck of roma tomatoes at the Saint Mary's Thursday Farmer's market, and I set out to put more tomatoes up. This...

Canning: 2022 Tomato Sauce

This year, we had enough ripe tomatoes from our garden, that my friend and I were able to incorporate them into our annual tomato sauce...

Picking and Preserving Corn

Mid-August is usually the annual you pick corn (aka Corn Pick) for Pahl's CSA members. Since we split a share with our good friends,...

Pressure Canning Green Beans

July is the time when the green beans start producing, and our Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm offers a "U-Pick" in their...

A Quick Pickle!

We got three large cucumbers in the CSA box... and hate to eat cucumbers in salads. So I decided to do a quick/refrigerator dill pickle....

A Canning Jamboree

Today's blog post represents a weekend of canning... and is more in the style of a "day in the life" update to keep track of what I did...

The Start of the 2022 Jam Season!

It's July, the CSA has started (through Pahl's Market in Apple Valley, MN) and the very first garden hauls (still tiny, as we're in...

Tomatoes, Preserved. Oh My!

I live on land that is shady and has a constant line of deer crossing. In other words, not good gardening land! Enter the farmer's...

A Quilty Cannery or a Canny Quiltery?

I was recently asked about the canning part of this blog... and so I thought an explanation would be in order. We are currently at the...

The 2022 Canned Pantry is Underway!

In January, the "Jar it Up January/Canuary" launched, along with a Pantry Challenge (hosted by Three Rivers Homestead). Inspired by this,...

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