Different kinds of Italian. The differences between North and South are dramatic.

That article needs a lot of work. That’s more (North) mirepoix. I’m more Sicilian (South) where bell peppers are way more likely to be there than celery. And if I do see a recipe calling for celery I will always consider if I can use leeks instead.

I have leftovers. I’ll heat them up for you if you bring some beer.

I seriously considered carrots. Decided not to go sweet I used granulated onion instead of fresh. I will probably never ever add celery to any Italian dish.

Make sure you season both the sauce and the pork before combining them.

Botulism isn’t a risk for sanitation reasons. The pressure canner takes care of all the botulism risk. Some people believe that you can boil botulism away and they are very much at risk. Follow proper canning features with even moderately clean jars and you will never get sick. Sickness comes from when you try to do dumb stuff like can really dense material like pumpkin puree instead of pumpkin cubes. The center of the mass doesn’t reach the 240° necessary to eliminate all pathogens and botulism spores.

There’s a cold pack and a hot pack method. Hot pack is when you pre-cook the meat and put it in the jar and top it off with water or broth. I prefer the cold pack method where you just literally shove the raw meat in the jar and it Cooks during the canning process creating its own juices. It’s less prep work all the way around and you actually get a better result. And that broth is worth a lot in soups and stuff. It’s just the purest flavor of broth you have ever had.

I have a vegetarian senior citizen friend. Occasionally he ends up with whole frozen turkeys. He gives them to me. I cut off all the usable meat. Pack it into a canning jar. Fire up the pressure canner. Make canned turkey just like you’d buy in the store. And then I take the carcass bits and make stock out of that.

I originally started this on post turkey day sales. I could go in the next morning and get a turkey for something like $0.17 a pound and that’s practically free food if you know how to can.

I don’t know the group so I’m not sure if it would be on topic or fringe content. I know that in the future we’re going to be hitting that dump. Pretty hard to get every single cat in it. If your post does good then maybe I’ll try those when I get to it.

It’s nested in another reply.

Too many best friends already.

Generally it’s great. But birth defect with great attitude means he might get stuck here and never get on the next stop.

Chives? In this economy?

But seriously it’s the wrong time of year for chives to be growing in my yard. And she prefers fries over the potatoes.

Though I will admit I have not made nearly enough boiled potatoes tossed in butter and some herbage over the years. I loved them as a kid and I find them essential for a lot of good breakfast burritos. It’s just something that never comes to mind

I don’t think he got a time share on the brain cell.

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Eat first. Log in second. Unless you have money. Log in. Get hungry looking at food. Figure out what you want to eat. Go get it.

Wife has a sore throat. She literally had ice cream for dinner last night. So I opted for extra soft fries, no crispy goodness. I even peeled them. I never peel for fries. But for her, I did.

Cucumber has replaced lettuce on most of our sandwiches. Plank cut works so much better in this application.