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Interesting this topic is coming up-I have been looking for canning/preserving blogs in portland this summer and wasn't able to find very many..

My mother says I'm channeling her mom this summer as I got some kind of crazy canning bug, but it did not come from learning from any of my relatives. I think it all started last year when I tested a few pickle recipes after reading a recipe in Food Day.. my daughter ate the pickled green beans like candy.. we ran out in mid-November and I resolved that next summer I would make enough to last us through the winter. (I also tried a few berry recipes and did not make enough to last either.. )

so this year to make up for running out early I've canned:
-tomatoes (salsa, bruschetta sauce, in juice, and frozen tom. soup base)
-peaches in syrup
-pears in syrup
-applesauce and pearsauce
-pickles (dill, bread & butter, green & wax beans)
-green tomato salsa
-strawberry lemonade concentrate
-razz. lemonade concentrate
-jostaberry juice
-strawberry currant juice
-blueberry butter
-blueberry syrup
-pink gooseberries in syrup
-strawberry jam (3 batches: plain, w/razz & balsamic, mint & black pepper)
-roasted tomatoes (frozen if they don't get eaten w/in 24 hours)
I've also frozen bags of green beans, corn, and berries.. And we have a batch of apple cider brewing.

All of the produce was either picked out of my yard, my neighbor's yard, or u-pick from local tri-county no-spray farms. The only exception was the pears, which are from a hood river orchard.

I'm already planning on doing at least one more batch of green beans, and I'll have to deal with all of my green tomatoes, so that means more salsa.

The scariest part is that my husband and i discussed how this year my canning is supposed to be the experimental year to see what we like.. next year is going to be the year we go whole hog on the favorites.. I can't even imagine what the basement shelves will look like then!

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