Use the whole jar of vinegar and red onions as a base for your homemade salad dressing. Blend it all up in a nutribullet or with a stick blender, and then use that as the vinegar in your salad dressing. That's what I've been doing for years, because I, too, think the onions are gross right out of the jar.
No green beans??? I remember helping my grandma pick, clean, and can bushels and bushels of green beens.... I always loved eating grandma's "snaps".... Long gone are those days.... Happy to see so many comments on this video! Looks like the channel is growing! Bravo!!
In regard to green beans, there are canning recipes for 3 bean salad. I love the stuff and have been successful with this water bath processed product. It includes blanched green beans and wax beans, cooked kidney beans, chopped green pepper, and sliced onion which is covered with a vinigar brine and then WB canned. It can been eaten cold as a salad or warmed and served as a side dish.
YES! I just ate a pint of 3-bean salad I canned in 2022! It was terrific. Green beans, cooked garbanzos & kidney beans, plus onion, sweet pepper & celery for variety. If I had yellow beans, they’d go in too, but I only grow green beans & p-can them with meat. Add ramen noodles and presto!! Instant SOUP
I knew it would be shocking and controversial lol! I wish my family enjoyed them more. ❤️ Thankfully, we all eat LOVE them fresh, so they still get eaten. 😋
The zucchini relish recipe in ball blue is awesome. Maybe try a small batch. As to your green beans if you add a tablet of zinc they will stay bright green and have a better texture. As to the other 3 I wouldn't can them either. Blessings friend 😊
We tried a type of succotash, too, for the first time this year. But it was corn, lima beans, and peppers. The succotash you mentioned sounds really good!!
I'm still new to canning, but I have seen where several people have said Lima beans are not considered safe to can. I don't know the reason, but I have seen that a few times.
I agree with the pickled red onions. I love them on tacos, but they were mushy canned. We are just the opposite from you about green beans. I can’t stand frozen green beans and a major reason I purchase a pressure canner was to can green beans.
@ Yes we do refrigerator pickled red onions and they are like what you get in restaurants. I just always forget to make them and then when I want them I don’t have them.
I made pickled red onions last year for the first time, but I haven't been brave enough to try them yet lol. I made zucchini relish last year too and haven't tried it yet, but mainly because I have a lot of pickle relish that I use. I need to open both of them up and try them.
You can just post a question on whatever video you're on. :) We generally just heat it up, place in taco shells or quesadillas, and top with whatever fresh ingredients we have on hand. I don't know if you've seen it yet or not, but here's a playlist with lots of ideas - ruclips.net/video/sfhW021jUYA/видео.html
Yep, I agree with the zinc comment! They stay beautifully green and look nearly like frozen after heating. I also add a little pickle crisp to the water, which helps keep them less mushy.
Great information. Never heard anyone say what they wouldn't can again.😀👍 Thanks for the honest assessment. I never have a chance to can Green Beans because we pick them fresh from the garden, steam them, then eat them. We're big fans so we've only had to give them to neighbors a couple of times. God bless.
I feel you on the green beans, canned are not good. But my freezer is too full for them. So I cut mine bite size and dehydrate. Not great to rehydrate and eat themselves, but wonderful in soups, stew, casseroles, pot pies, chili, spaghetti sauce etc. Anything with a sauce or gravy you want more veg for the kiddos in a palatable form.
Someone else mentioned that, too. I haven’t tried them that way! I will do a refrigerator jar this year before I give them up entirely. 😂 Thank you for the recommendation!
I keep a small jar of fresh pickled red onions in the fridge for use as a condiment. I don't like then pickled either. World of difference in not canning them.
I don't know if people traditionally make green bean casserole where you live, we had it every thanksgiving when I was growing up and I make it still. It's the recipe with French's fried onions and cream of mushroom soup. Perhaps that would be a good way to at least finish the beans you have?
I won’t be canning aronia/raspberry syrup anymore. There’s a “mud” flavor in it that never appears when I merely freeze it. I freeze it in empty BAI Drink bottles, which have straight sides and are super easy to wash.
I ran across a recipe for green bean bread. It is a modified zucchini bread recipe but it’s great. I had tons of canned green beans and we just weren’t eating them fast enough. So into the blender they went and I made bread! Another use is green bean casserole. I also have a wonderful pickled dill green bean recipe that people love. Just some ideas to use up what you have and maybe a different take on new ones grown this next year.
I am about to can more green beans because they were so good. I did 3 cans to test them. I warm them up in butter and add either onions or caramelized onions, bacon bits, peppers, and diced tomatoes or any combination and they come out so flavorful. With garlic, salt, pepper, Mrs. Dash and sometimes another spice.
Thank you for this video. I think it's as important to know what not to do as it is to know what we should do. Also thank you for explaining why. I really appreciate your videos. Very informative. I just discovered your channel and have been loving it. Thank you very much for all the info. 😊
This was very interesting, and I am a fan of green beans, but okra, nope, nope, nope! I do not eat it. Red onions good sliced thin and soaked in sugar before use. This was an entertaining video. Thanks!
I pickle red onions in vinegar and sugar and a little salt and water and put them in the fridge to put on salads. No brining or hot water bath. They're very good the way I make them.
Is that the ball vinegared onion recipe? Maybe try subbing in red onions for the pickled pearl onions recipe instead. It is a lot more mild. Or try the “onion relish” which is also more mild and is just thinly sliced pickled red onions
If I pickle something I don’t like cause it’s mushy. I use it for summer coleslaw. Smash it down and add Mayo and a little sugar to the cabbage. Yummy different flavors.
I had the freeze dried okra it was fabulous! Jordan, I was wondering about the texture issues you had with the pickled okra did you add Pickle crisp ? My Cole Slaw I canned was missing that crunch, next time I can it, I’m gonna try adding @Pickle Crisp! might work for the onions too!🌷
I always like videos on this topic. I find them interesting. I agree with you on the pickled red onions. I canned them two summers ago and just gave up and dumped them. I personally really love canned green beans (and fresh ones) but absolutely cannot stand frozen green beans. I feel like you either like one or the other and which type you grew up eating influences that. If I was going to list 5 things I wouldn’t can it would be 1. Carrots 2. Pickled coleslaw (I really wanted to like this one) 3. Pickled red onions 4. Chili base 5. Tomato paste
One thing I can not live without is Zucchini Relish. I use it in all my pasta salad, and potato salad, and my daughter even just eats it as a size. I do not buy any pickle relish we only use this.
Can okra using old Alabama farmer recipe. I freeze and can green beans. I can mine with garlic and onion powder. I like frozen but we enjoy canned also.
I grew up in Colorado. My mom canned pickled okra every year, she never fried it. So, I'll have to disagree with you on that one... although now that I live in Alabama, most everyone would disagree with me!😁
The canned green beans. We don't really like them just snapped either. However if you put them through a bean frencher, oh boy are they good and worth the little extra time!
For onions bring brin to a boil put over onions put lids on tight turn upside down and let it cool ,if you want you can keep it refrigerator, they keep fine along as they seal because of the vinegar. Hope this helps .I do all my Pickles this way never had problems.
For me it's canned corn. Normally I freeze it, but this past year I canned some too. It tastes good but I can't get past the color of it after it's canned. It's turned considerably darker than I expected. I followed the recommended safe canning process, so I'm a little mystified. It's a very sweet corn, so I'm wondering if canning it caused it to caramelize somewhat?
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I've tried something very similar. It was a no go. 🤷♀️ I would eat them!! But I don't make a habit of cooking things just for me - too much work to have to cook two different dishes lol.
I do not can green beans or corn when I can buy it at WM for 50cents when on sale The flat alone is 41cents plus cost of canning jar and use of power cost. But do can meats and soups for a quick reliable meal.
One of my family’s favorite way to use then is what my kids would call cheesy beans. Make a cheese sauce and add drained beans . Season with salt and pepper. Give it a try.
I was raised on home-canned green beans and home-canned corn, and to this day I can’t stand frozen green beans or corn, and just barely tolerate fresh cooked green beans. (Fresh corn on the cob is heavenly, as long as it was picked early enough not to be starchy.) I don’t care for pickled foods except pickled cucumbers (aka “pickles”). My husband adores pickled beets, I love plain beets but dislike pickled. The foods I’ve canned in the past but won’t ever again are: asparagus (too mushy), applesauce (nobody else in my family likes it, even though I use my grandmother’s heavenly recipe), and blackberry syrup (just way too messy & too much work!). I also won’t can potatoes, even though everyone in my family adores potatoes, unless someone can tell me how to do it without them turning to unattractive mush in the jars! My favorite things to can are bone broths and vegetable broth (so easy!), caramelized onions (so much work but worth it!), and carrots (I adore carrots in any way, shape, or form - except pickled!).
I understand about green beans, the texture is lost. I do not like canned peas. My grandmother and mother canned them. My mother-in-law stocked her cupboard with store bought canned peas, which tasted worse than home canned. Just can't do it.
I absolutely LOVE pickled okra! Sorry you didn't like them. I also love pickled green beans. My husband hates both. My family and I love my canned green beans, but I have been eating home canned green beans since I was a child. I AM particular about the type of green bean I can. I usually can white half runners or some variety of greasy bean, but most varieties of beans that have shellies in them are great.
Hello from the eastcoast of Germany😍I also do not like green beans canned up. But I like green bean salad. If you like try this recipe : Bohnen in 2 Varianten from #Natürlich Selbstgemacht. Can't live without it anymore😁 Love your videos, yours Sylvia
I'm going to try the refrigerator way this time and see if we like them better. They're too good to give up on entirely, but whatever recipe I used just wasn't the best. Do you use red wine vinegar or plain?
I really like garden fresh green beans. The texture changes too much for me when they get canned and they squeak when I eat them. I don't like it. hehe
Canned green beans is what we eat the most of. I have a daughter that will not touch the green beans if they’re from the store, she will only eat them home canned
Its all context, right? Someone near and dear to me once canned hot dogs....yeah. hot dogs.....this is where I learned to can a small quantity of anything I didn't already know my family would like. Don't can just to can. BTW, we ended up pitching the hot dogs.
I don't care for the taste of home canned green beans or canned potatoes. I tried them separately and together, even tried to add smoked pork chop cuttings in them. I fried the last jars up in bacon and finished with dark soy sauce for Thanksgiving and they were good. I have a jar of dehydrated green beans left, but I feel like they need bacon as well. Since I enjoy with bacon I might can some in the future but prefer them fresh. I do like them in my canned soups so maybe the commentor who suggested canning in broth is onto something Mock zucchini pineapple in chucks was not what I expected. It has a weird savoryness to me. We do use it in tacos al pastor sometimes. It isn't as flavorful as real pineapple. The pineapple upside down cake was also good but lite on pineapple flavor. It made good use of zucchini that would have gone to waste. I still haven't touched the frozen shredded zucchini yet. We did a lot of zucchini chips too. The mature yellow squash I tried to freeze last year wasn't very good, so we canned the stuff that was getting hard. That was wonderful and nutty in soup. The smaller ones we sliced and froze. The two things I struggle to can enough of are tomato sauce and pickles.
I understand why you don’t like green beans canned. Use your fresh roasted tomatoes in the green beans cold pack makes a world of difference in taste and they stay crunchier not mushy.
I'm definitely going to try more zucchini relish recipes, but I feel like I've exhausted all my options with the others (tried so, so many). Someone also recommended trying the pickled red onions as a refrigerator recipe instead of canning it. I'll try that, too!
OMG Jordan. Green beans? We love our green beans. I have to have many jars of GBs to make it through the winter. It's the thing I can the most of.
I know!! It’s kinda crazy! 🤷♀️
Adding zinc to the green beans (from RuthAnn Zimmerman) at least keeps the green beans brighter green … ❤
I heat my jarred green beans with onion, a dab of bacon grease, salt and pepper! Taste like fresh!
I've tried something very similar with my family, and I just can't get everybody on board!
I'm with you 100% with canned green beans! I also won't can carrots again. We love veggies but not squishy!
Use the whole jar of vinegar and red onions as a base for your homemade salad dressing. Blend it all up in a nutribullet or with a stick blender, and then use that as the vinegar in your salad dressing. That's what I've been doing for years, because I, too, think the onions are gross right out of the jar.
That is SUCH a great idea! Thank you! 😊
I canned green beans in vegetable broth and they were great .
We love our canned green beans we use them with ham and potatoes in crockpot. A family favorite with cornbread
I love that kind of meal! ❤️ But the rest of my family just can't get excited about anything with canned green beans lol.
No green beans??? I remember helping my grandma pick, clean, and can bushels and bushels of green beens.... I always loved eating grandma's "snaps".... Long gone are those days.... Happy to see so many comments on this video! Looks like the channel is growing! Bravo!!
We do a fridge pickled red onion, they tend to mellow over time. Love them.
Definitely trying that this year! 😊
In regard to green beans, there are canning recipes for 3 bean salad. I love the stuff and have been successful with this water bath processed product. It includes blanched green beans and wax beans, cooked kidney beans, chopped green pepper, and sliced onion which is covered with a vinigar brine and then WB canned. It can been eaten cold as a salad or warmed and served as a side dish.
I've never tried a bean salad though I've seen recipes floating around for them. I might give it a try this year, thanks! 😊
YES! I just ate a pint of 3-bean salad I canned in 2022! It was terrific. Green beans, cooked garbanzos & kidney beans, plus onion, sweet pepper & celery for variety. If I had yellow beans, they’d go in too, but I only grow green beans & p-can them with meat. Add ramen noodles and presto!! Instant SOUP
I love my canned green beans. I don't like frozen green beans. Each there own. Thank you for the video.
Wanda from Deep South Homestead has a recipe for canning okra to fry later. I haven't tried it but comments indicated it worked well.
Thanks for the tip!
Wow to green beans, I add ham chunks for flavoring and my family loves them. I also use in soups and casseroles.
I knew it would be shocking and controversial lol! I wish my family enjoyed them more. ❤️ Thankfully, we all eat LOVE them fresh, so they still get eaten. 😋
Love can green beans and I love can tom.,corn, and okra mixture. I put it in my jambalaya. Try a ferment red onions instead of canning them.
The zucchini relish recipe in ball blue is awesome. Maybe try a small batch. As to your green beans if you add a tablet of zinc they will stay bright green and have a better texture. As to the other 3 I wouldn't can them either. Blessings friend 😊
Do you put a tablet in each jar?
@danielleterry2331 yes
Thanks for the tips!
What size jars get a tablet of zinc? I tend do things in pints because it's just my husband and me that I am cooking for.
Just water bath instead of pressure canning. They stay green and are delish. Of course, you have to LIKE green beans in the first place.
I discovered I like the crunch in fresh or frozen green beans. The way I use them up is to drain and puree, adding to soup.
So this year I tried a kind of succotash. Limas , tomatoes, and okra. It turned out so good it may be a favorite now.
We tried a type of succotash, too, for the first time this year. But it was corn, lima beans, and peppers. The succotash you mentioned sounds really good!!
I'm still new to canning, but I have seen where several people have said Lima beans are not considered safe to can. I don't know the reason, but I have seen that a few times.
I agree with the pickled red onions. I love them on tacos, but they were mushy canned.
We are just the opposite from you about green beans. I can’t stand frozen green beans and a major reason I purchase a pressure canner was to can green beans.
I'm going to try refrigerator pickled red onions this year (aka no canning) to see if that helps.
@ Yes we do refrigerator pickled red onions and they are like what you get in restaurants. I just always forget to make them and then when I want them I don’t have them.
I made pickled red onions last year for the first time, but I haven't been brave enough to try them yet lol. I made zucchini relish last year too and haven't tried it yet, but mainly because I have a lot of pickle relish that I use. I need to open both of them up and try them.
I hope yours are better than mine! 🤣
@ I’m really afraid to taste them now lol! Like you I thought they were to get better with time.
Love my canned green beans try it again !
Where do I go to ask a question not related to this post my question is however how do you use your canned chicken taco in a meal?
You can just post a question on whatever video you're on. :) We generally just heat it up, place in taco shells or quesadillas, and top with whatever fresh ingredients we have on hand. I don't know if you've seen it yet or not, but here's a playlist with lots of ideas - ruclips.net/video/sfhW021jUYA/видео.html
I do squash bread and butter pickles and they are so good. Also I make fridge pickled red onions.
Ooh, squash B&B pickles sound good!!
@ I just use the same brine. They turn out very good.
Add a zinc tablet to your green beans jar before canning... they stay bright green and are crisper. You might be processing them too long as well.
The zinc trick really works. My green beans kept a very pretty green color when I added the zinc.. is an Amish trick.
Yep, I agree with the zinc comment! They stay beautifully green and look nearly like frozen after heating. I also add a little pickle crisp to the water, which helps keep them less mushy.
Great information. Never heard anyone say what they wouldn't can again.😀👍 Thanks for the honest assessment. I never have a chance to can Green Beans because we pick them fresh from the garden, steam them, then eat them. We're big fans so we've only had to give them to neighbors a couple of times. God bless.
Oh yes, if we ever leave the garden feeling “full,” it’s because of how many green beans we ate. 😂
I feel you on the green beans, canned are not good. But my freezer is too full for them.
So I cut mine bite size and dehydrate. Not great to rehydrate and eat themselves, but wonderful in soups, stew, casseroles, pot pies, chili, spaghetti sauce etc. Anything with a sauce or gravy you want more veg for the kiddos in a palatable form.
Great idea!
I absolutely agree!! As a canning fiend myself, I was glad to see I'm not the only one who didn't love these😊
I agree with the green beans. I haven't found a way to make the home-canned green beans taste great. 💜
Pickled red onions should definitely be made as a quick, fridge pickle , in my opinion!
Someone else mentioned that, too. I haven’t tried them that way! I will do a refrigerator jar this year before I give them up entirely. 😂 Thank you for the recommendation!
I keep a small jar of fresh pickled red onions in the fridge for use as a condiment. I don't like then pickled either. World of difference in not canning them.
I don't know if people traditionally make green bean casserole where you live, we had it every thanksgiving when I was growing up and I make it still. It's the recipe with French's fried onions and cream of mushroom soup. Perhaps that would be a good way to at least finish the beans you have?
Yes, definitely, thanks for reminding me of that recipe. 🙂
I love my canned green beans! Cant keep them on the shelf.
I wish my family did!! ❤️
I won’t be canning aronia/raspberry syrup anymore. There’s a “mud” flavor in it that never appears when I merely freeze it. I freeze it in empty BAI Drink bottles, which have straight sides and are super easy to wash.
I ran across a recipe for green bean bread. It is a modified zucchini bread recipe but it’s great. I had tons of canned green beans and we just weren’t eating them fast enough. So into the blender they went and I made bread! Another use is green bean casserole. I also have a wonderful pickled dill green bean recipe that people love. Just some ideas to use up what you have and maybe a different take on new ones grown this next year.
I've never heard of green bean bread! Thanks for sharing. 😊
With you on all but the beans. I love 💕 green beans lol
I love pickled onions especially on burgers..hubby hates them. I put just a little less vinegar than water in mine. 💚
Try making dried green beans. Check out leather britches, it what dried green beans are called
I am about to can more green beans because they were so good. I did 3 cans to test them. I warm them up in butter and add either onions or caramelized onions, bacon bits, peppers, and diced tomatoes or any combination and they come out so flavorful. With garlic, salt, pepper, Mrs. Dash and sometimes another spice.
That does sound yummy! 😋
Thank you for this video. I think it's as important to know what not to do as it is to know what we should do. Also thank you for explaining why.
I really appreciate your videos. Very informative. I just discovered your channel and have been loving it. Thank you very much for all the info. 😊
You're welcome! That's so good to hear. ❤️ Welcome to the channel! 👋
This was very interesting, and I am a fan of green beans, but okra, nope, nope, nope! I do not eat it. Red onions good sliced thin and soaked in sugar before use. This was an entertaining video. Thanks!
I pickle red onions in vinegar and sugar and a little salt and water and put them in the fridge to put on salads. No brining or hot water bath. They're very good the way I make them.
Ugh, the okra was so bad...🤣
I'll have to try the refrigerator method! Perhaps that's the way Panera does theirs??
Is that the ball vinegared onion recipe? Maybe try subbing in red onions for the pickled pearl onions recipe instead. It is a lot more mild. Or try the “onion relish” which is also more mild and is just thinly sliced pickled red onions
Great ideas, thanks!
If I pickle something I don’t like cause it’s mushy. I use it for summer coleslaw. Smash it down and add Mayo and a little sugar to the cabbage. Yummy different flavors.
Great idea! 🙂
Om not seeing the meals in a jar cookbook link. Am I missing it?
You can get it here 🙂 - foodprepguide.com/product-category/meals-in-jars-canning-series/
I had the freeze dried okra it was fabulous!
Jordan, I was wondering about the texture issues you had with the pickled okra did you add Pickle crisp ? My Cole Slaw I canned was missing that crunch, next time I can it, I’m gonna try adding @Pickle Crisp!
might work for the onions too!🌷
No, I didn’t use pickle crisp. Thanks for the idea!
I always like videos on this topic. I find them interesting. I agree with you on the pickled red onions. I canned them two summers ago and just gave up and dumped them. I personally really love canned green beans (and fresh ones) but absolutely cannot stand frozen green beans. I feel like you either like one or the other and which type you grew up eating influences that. If I was going to list 5 things I wouldn’t can it would be
1. Carrots
2. Pickled coleslaw (I really wanted to like this one)
3. Pickled red onions
4. Chili base
5. Tomato paste
Yep, I think you're right! I love topics like this, too. Always come away with some good ideas - or advice on things to avoid lol.
For canned green beans, try 3-5 bean salad.
Great idea!
One thing I can not live without is Zucchini Relish. I use it in all my pasta salad, and potato salad, and my daughter even just eats it as a size. I do not buy any pickle relish we only use this.
I agree with you. Canned green beans are definitely a no no.
Can okra using old Alabama farmer recipe. I freeze and can green beans. I can mine with garlic and onion powder. I like frozen but we enjoy canned also.
He was such a wealth of information-and still is thanks to his YT channel! ❤️
I grew up in Colorado. My mom canned pickled okra every year, she never fried it. So, I'll have to disagree with you on that one... although now that I live in Alabama, most everyone would disagree with me!😁
Have a look at 'the farmers wife homestead' in new Zealand, she does some very good recipes, she also has a lovely recipe for pickled red onions🌻
The canned green beans. We don't really like them just snapped either. However if you put them through a bean frencher, oh boy are they good and worth the little extra time!
I've never tried that!
For onions bring brin to a boil put over onions put lids on tight turn upside down and let it cool ,if you want you can keep it refrigerator, they keep fine along as they seal because of the vinegar. Hope this helps .I do all my Pickles this way never had problems.
I'm definitely going to try some refrigerator onions this year. Thanks!
For me it's canned corn. Normally I freeze it, but this past year I canned some too. It tastes good but I can't get past the color of it after it's canned. It's turned considerably darker than I expected. I followed the recommended safe canning process, so I'm a little mystified. It's a very sweet corn, so I'm wondering if canning it caused it to caramelize somewhat?
It does tend to darken a bit. 🤷♀️
@@foodprepguide That's so unfortunate!
Hi. I did buy 2 of your guides recently, so I'm in the newsletter apparently.
Today I received a message about a "flash sell" about a "freezer organizer"... And I'm a bit flabbergasted.
I liked the vibe of the honest simple channel and now I realize it smells of predatory marketing techniques.
1) There is no "flash sell" for digital goods... it's not as if you had a warehouse you needed to empty once in a while, it's digital !
2) Mail ended with : "Heads up: It will likely be 10+ weeks before this product is featured on Frugal Friday Flash Sale again!" ... that's FOMO, and it's ugly.
Maybe I'm wrong. But that's 2 red flags right there.
Flash sales are not limited to physical products. We pour weeks and often months of time into developing resources that will help people either learn a skill or make a skill more efficient.
Just like yours, our time is valuable, so we have a set price for digital products. But, every Friday, we pick one digital product from the shop and drop the price by up to 40% to give people a chance to snag a product they've really been wanting but perhaps was out of their budget.
And we are clear about how long it will be before that product hits its next sales cycle.
That's not predatory. That's transparent.
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@foodprepguide *"Flash sales are not limited to physical products."* They aren't in the capitalistic hell we live in, but they were meant to and always have been. The whole concept of "sale" originated from my country, I should know :) Sales were the means for a store to clear its inventory to make room for the newer stuff, which is a non issue for digital goods. Nowadays we can't have 20 consecutive days without official or non-official sales here and sales there, which tend to show companies over-charge us all years long really.
Thanks for the reply. One or the other would have gone under my radar, but those two elements combined rang my bell, and I hope you can see the legitimacy of my concern. (That being said, you run your business how you want, you're certainly not the kind of business I'd want to "fight", you seem a nice bunch and I wish you the best.
"Predatory" was a bigger word than I meant, english not being my native language... "nasty" was more appropriate. But even then, as I don't like being falsely accused, I'm not accusing you... just... it got my goat that's all :)
My mom froze green beans and applesauce. Yum
Put green beans in a pan with butter then sprinkle in seasoned break crumbs and toss around for a few minutes. Yum
I've tried something very similar. It was a no go. 🤷♀️ I would eat them!! But I don't make a habit of cooking things just for me - too much work to have to cook two different dishes lol.
@foodprepguide yes, i understand.
I do not can green beans or corn when I can buy it at WM for 50cents when on sale The flat alone is 41cents plus cost of canning jar and use of power cost. But do can meats and soups for a quick reliable meal.
Do you have a recipe book for canning meats? I would love just to can meats and then decide what to do with them.
Oh I love zucchini relish, and many of my friends love it also. Sorry yours was not good. I was so happy to find another way to use the harvest.
I need to try a different recipe before tossing the idea all together.
One of my family’s favorite way to use then is what my kids would call cheesy beans. Make a cheese sauce and add drained beans . Season with salt and pepper. Give it a try.
Thanks for sharing that idea! 🙂
Preach, sister. I can’t on the green beans again
I was raised on home-canned green beans and home-canned corn, and to this day I can’t stand frozen green beans or corn, and just barely tolerate fresh cooked green beans. (Fresh corn on the cob is heavenly, as long as it was picked early enough not to be starchy.)
I don’t care for pickled foods except pickled cucumbers (aka “pickles”). My husband adores pickled beets, I love plain beets but dislike pickled.
The foods I’ve canned in the past but won’t ever again are: asparagus (too mushy), applesauce (nobody else in my family likes it, even though I use my grandmother’s heavenly recipe), and blackberry syrup (just way too messy & too much work!). I also won’t can potatoes, even though everyone in my family adores potatoes, unless someone can tell me how to do it without them turning to unattractive mush in the jars!
My favorite things to can are bone broths and vegetable broth (so easy!), caramelized onions (so much work but worth it!), and carrots (I adore carrots in any way, shape, or form - except pickled!).
Great lists!
I understand about green beans, the texture is lost. I do not like canned peas. My grandmother and mother canned them. My mother-in-law stocked her cupboard with store bought canned peas, which tasted worse than home canned. Just can't do it.
I totally agree with you peas should be eaten fresh or frozen. I can eat the canned ones but I don't really enjoy them. 😊
Try dry canning them?
Which item are you referring to? Do you mean dehydrate and then vacuum seal?
Thank you. I've only "can" dry foods. I'm afraid to ruin food.
I prefer green beans frozen as well. I will can them but that’s for when I don’t have time to properly cook frozen ones.
I absolutely LOVE pickled okra! Sorry you didn't like them. I also love pickled green beans. My husband hates both. My family and I love my canned green beans, but I have been eating home canned green beans since I was a child. I AM particular about the type of green bean I can. I usually can white half runners or some variety of greasy bean, but most varieties of beans that have shellies in them are great.
What would be considered a "greasy bean"?
Yes, half runners are the very best! And can, can, can those green beans!
Hello from the eastcoast of Germany😍I also do not like green beans canned up. But I like green bean salad. If you like try this recipe : Bohnen in 2 Varianten from #Natürlich Selbstgemacht.
Can't live without it anymore😁 Love your videos, yours Sylvia
I’ll look it up, thanks! 🙂
I have a friend who loves pickled red onions and I make him 12 pint jars at a time
I'm going to try the refrigerator way this time and see if we like them better. They're too good to give up on entirely, but whatever recipe I used just wasn't the best. Do you use red wine vinegar or plain?
I really like garden fresh green beans. The texture changes too much for me when they get canned and they squeak when I eat them. I don't like it. hehe
Lol! I know exactly what you mean by the squeak!! 🤣
Canned green beans is what we eat the most of. I have a daughter that will not touch the green beans if they’re from the store, she will only eat them home canned
I don’t like crunchy beans, lol
For me, no more orange juice. I tried it once. It changed color. It didn't look appetizing after it sat awhile. Didn't work for me.
Funny how we all have different tastes, I prefer canned green beans!
Definitely, I know plenty of people that absolutely love them!
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Weird!
I like my okra with tomatoes, onions and peppers. I buy canned okra. I only like it with tomatoes, or fried.
Its all context, right? Someone near and dear to me once canned hot dogs....yeah. hot dogs.....this is where I learned to can a small quantity of anything I didn't already know my family would like. Don't can just to can. BTW, we ended up pitching the hot dogs.
Definitely! :) Lol, I don't think I've heard of canning hot dogs.
I don't care for the taste of home canned green beans or canned potatoes. I tried them separately and together, even tried to add smoked pork chop cuttings in them. I fried the last jars up in bacon and finished with dark soy sauce for Thanksgiving and they were good. I have a jar of dehydrated green beans left, but I feel like they need bacon as well. Since I enjoy with bacon I might can some in the future but prefer them fresh. I do like them in my canned soups so maybe the commentor who suggested canning in broth is onto something
Mock zucchini pineapple in chucks was not what I expected. It has a weird savoryness to me. We do use it in tacos al pastor sometimes. It isn't as flavorful as real pineapple. The pineapple upside down cake was also good but lite on pineapple flavor. It made good use of zucchini that would have gone to waste. I still haven't touched the frozen shredded zucchini yet. We did a lot of zucchini chips too. The mature yellow squash I tried to freeze last year wasn't very good, so we canned the stuff that was getting hard. That was wonderful and nutty in soup. The smaller ones we sliced and froze.
The two things I struggle to can enough of are tomato sauce and pickles.
I think you're right. Canning green beans in broth for soups and such could really be the ticket!
I don’t like canned green beans either. They develop an after taste I can’t stand.
Pineapple zucchini. 😮
Yes!! SO good! ruclips.net/video/V9fWQ30W-dQ/видео.html
No we didn't like it compost loved it . @@foodprepguide
Oh no! Thanks for the giggle, "the compost loved it." 🤣
I understand why you don’t like green beans canned. Use your fresh roasted tomatoes in the green beans cold pack makes a world of difference in taste and they stay crunchier not mushy.
Interesting! That does sound good...😋
Maybe you should try different recipes.
I'm definitely going to try more zucchini relish recipes, but I feel like I've exhausted all my options with the others (tried so, so many). Someone also recommended trying the pickled red onions as a refrigerator recipe instead of canning it. I'll try that, too!
One time I made a sweet corn relish. At first it was great and then somehow the sweetness was GONE! It was just a YUCK 🤢🤮factor!
That's so weird how that happens sometimes!!
Try freezing
I call okra snot pods. Can't stand the stuff. I find the texture very off putting.
Lol!!! 🤣
Pickles. I love them, husband wont eat them. Waste of my time
It’s time to do something nice for yourself
hi, i do zucchini with pineapple juice. i have the approved canning book from the usda. complete book. it's a joy.