Canning Season®

Nov 07 2020 44 ep. 37 mins 58
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Get out your jars! Canning Season is an uplifting show dedicated to home canning and food preservation. it’s all about “Celebrating and sharing the abundance.”® Canning Season first ran in 2013-2014 and came back in 2020.

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CS-044: Fall Home Canning – Conversation with a Master Food Preserver

Nov 07 2020 75 mins  
As we wrap up the growing season, we turn to fall home canning, That means the holidays and all the abundance that comes with them are not far away. To get us there, today we are fortunate to have with us Wendy Rose, a Master Food Preserver. We is trained by the University of California Master Food Preserver Program and has some great tips and tricks to help with your home canning

CS-043: The Pickle Anything Show

Aug 21 2020 53 mins  
In today’s show, we talk about safely pickling foods. This is a foundation skill used in home canning worldwide. Seasoned home canners will benefit by refreshing themselves on the fundamentals of pickling, This includes a review of the related techniques, concepts, and processes central to safe home canning. Those new to home canning will learn ways to safely get started. As

CS-042: Get Your Jams and Jellies to Set

Jul 24 2020 48 mins  
Today, we talk about what it takes to get your jams and jellies to set. * Pectin – what it is. * The concept of “a set” and what it means. * Best method of testing for set. * Pectin’s role – to pectin, or not to pectin. * Making your own pectin. Made a lot of jam since we last got together – * Strawberry vanilla * Strawberry japaleno * Cherry * Chery almond * Bluebe

CS-041: Let’s Make Great Strawberry Jam

Jun 26 2020 31 mins  
The strawberries have arrived and it’s time to make strawberry jam. Today’s show lists the 10 things I learned for making the best strawberry jam. We get answers to the following, as well as many more questions — * How to make jam without pectin. * What to do about all that foam that forms on top of boiling jams. * How many strawberries does it take to make jam? * W

CS-040: Pop-Tarts and Disruptions in the Food Supply

Jun 12 2020 31 mins  
In today’s episode we talk about what causes disruptions in the food supply and its connection to home canning & food preservation. To help answer those questions, we take lessons from how they package a popular food item, in the United States known as Pop-Tarts®.

CS-039 Canning Season is Back!

May 21 2020 30 mins  
It’s been six years since the last episode of the Canning Season podcast. Today’s show re-introduces Canning Season to fans of home canning and food preservation. John Gavin, the creator and producer of Canning Season, returns as your host to guide you throughout the growing season. Get out your jars! Canning Season is back.

CS-038: Homemade Ice Cream | New Features Coming to Canning Season

Sep 15 2014 39 mins  
For all your hard work home canning this year, don’t you think you deserve a break – and a treat? Today I give you both as I introduce you to the concept of making homemade ice cream. But ice cream is much more than a wildly popular dessert. It also happens to provide a natural complement to our home canning. When you make ice cream at home, can add many of the items yo

CS-037: A Bucket of Cucumbers Restored My Canning Mojo

Aug 21 2014 31 mins  
In home canning as well as in life, we sometimes get off our game; some call it “losing our mojo”. You know that feeling: Things aren’t quite right, we keep messing up, we can’t seem to get into that rhythm that keeps us productive and allows us to feel at ease. That’s what it has been like for me this growing season. In today’s episode I tell yo

CS-036: Pickled Foods | Interview with Expert from University of Alaska

Aug 06 2014 62 mins  
Knowing how to safely pickle foods is one of the foundation skills used by home canners worldwide. In today’s episode we are joined by Roxie Dinstel from the Cooperative Extension Service at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Roxie happens to be the creator of one of the three must-have canning resources I talked about in Episode 31, Three Must-Haves for Home Canners. Sea

CS-035: Cherries! | So Many Cool Things to Make with Cherries | My Trip to Norway

Jul 17 2014 29 mins  
The cherries are in! Will you be home canning cherries this year? If so, what do you plan to make? With so many choices, you’ll find the effort so much more rewarding if you just take a bit of time upfront to think through the options. Here’s some things you could make with your cherries this year — * Cherry Almond Jam * Cherries for baking / Pie filling * Canned