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Projects to avoid doing my taxes
DIR By: NoLongerAubergine
Date: October 7, 2022, 10:53 pm
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I've decided to try my hand at canning - to give me plausible
reasons why I can't yet dig up my tax paperwork, I suspect.
Did these over 3 days -
Nectarine Cardamom Preserves (slightly less than two 1/2 pints)
Holiday Jam, which I tested last year but just did two half
pints that I put straight in the fridge and didn't can. (Ten
half pints)
Red Cabbage Slaw, or so the Ball Blue Book titled it, though
more mundanely, I'd say brined red cabbage. (6 pints)
So, I'm feeling pretty accomplished despite the avoidance. And
I'm all set if the grocery store runs out of red food. :D
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Re: Projects to avoid doing my taxes
DIR By: acl-ny
Date: October 7, 2022, 11:31 pm
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I’ve thought about canning, did a little research and noped out
if it. Need to get too many things they I don’t have room to
store, and it’s just more process than I want to deal with.
My hat’s off to you for your success! Enjoy the fruits of your
labors. 😁
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Re: Projects to avoid doing my taxes
DIR By: NordicDog
Date: October 7, 2022, 11:52 pm
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Uh, now about those taxes….
It’s time.
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Re: Projects to avoid doing my taxes
DIR By: HeddyL2627
Date: October 8, 2022, 5:56 am
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The nectarine sounds wonderful! Cardamom is my not-so-secret
ingredient for elevating any jam. Star anise is brilliant too.
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Re: Projects to avoid doing my taxes
DIR By: farmgirl
Date: October 8, 2022, 7:31 am
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Well, my hat is off to you! Your jam sounds wonderful!
I don't (and won't) can. I grew up in a family that grew all
our own produce. I spent days in the kitchen with my mom,
canning vegetables and making jam. We had a huge chest freezer
but canned everything else. We also had access to abandoned
farm orchards so we made all of our jam and jelly. We made all
of our pickles, catsup, a fair amount of our fruit juice, and
every single vegetable we ate year round. Many evenings were
spent sitting on the porch with a soup kettle full of green
beans to snap or peas to shell.
I do make refrigerator pickles. And am very jealous of your
jam - just not jealous enough to make some myself.
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Re: Projects to avoid doing my taxes
DIR By: MidwestmikkiJ
Date: October 8, 2022, 11:34 am
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--- Quote from: NoLongerAubergine link ---
>
> I've decided to try my hand at canning - to give me plausible
reasons why I can't yet dig up my tax paperwork, I suspect.
>
> Did these over 3 days -
> Nectarine Cardamom Preserves (slightly less than two 1/2
pints)
> Holiday Jam, which I tested last year but just did two half
pints that I put straight in the fridge and didn't can. (Ten
half pints)
> Red Cabbage Slaw, or so the Ball Blue Book titled it, though
more mundanely, I'd say brined red cabbage. (6 pints)
>
> So, I'm feeling pretty accomplished despite the avoidance. And
I'm all set if the grocery store runs out of red food. :D
>
--- End Quote ---
Is there a looming red food shortage? If so, I’ll add
cranberries to my grocery list. Oh, and I haven’t had beets for
a while, so those too. And maybe a red onion.
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Re: Projects to avoid doing my taxes
DIR By: MidwestmikkiJ
Date: October 8, 2022, 11:40 am
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--- Quote from: farmgirl link ---
>
> Well, my hat is off to you! Your jam sounds wonderful!
>
> I don't (and won't) can. I grew up in a family that grew all
our own produce. I spent days in the kitchen with my mom,
canning vegetables and making jam. We had a huge chest freezer
but canned everything else. We also had access to abandoned
farm orchards so we made all of our jam and jelly. We made all
of our pickles, catsup, a fair amount of our fruit juice, and
every single vegetable we ate year round. Many evenings were
spent sitting on the porch with a soup kettle full of green
beans to snap or peas to shell.
>
> I do make refrigerator pickles. And am very jealous of your
jam - just not jealous enough to make some myself.
>
--- End Quote ---
My Mom didn’t can nearly as much as you describe. But she did a
fair amount of it, having grown up on a farm during the
depression. I have little interest in doing it myself after
helping her all those years.
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