Summer is… local fresh fruits and vegetables. If you follow my posts and Instagram, you know how much I enjoy cooking and shopping organic and local. But how do you “bottle” those summer flavours?
Canning. Side note – they could call it jarring, which they do but then people would confuse jarring with the other definition of the word! Preserving strawberries, raspberries, peaches and in August, tomatoes – is a tradition in our home.
What do we jar? Apple pie fillings and soups like butternut squash, and of course, tomato sauce! My husband makes his Italian giardiniera, called “sotto aceti”, which means “under vinegar”, hot peppers and more.
Bernardin is the nation’s home canning leader and the maker of the original mason jar, which is what we use when we make preserves. The Home Canning Starter Kit is a great beginner’s guide to home canning and includes all the necessary tools to naturally preserve your favourite food – and we’re giving one away! (see below). The Home Canning Tool Kit comes in handy and makes the canning process so much easier and neater.
National Can It Forward Day, Canada’s home canning awareness day, is on August 11, 2013. Whether you’re an experienced canner, or just looking to try it out, you should take part!
The canning demonstration on National Can It Forward Day will be live broadcast from Cirillo’s Culinary Academy in Toronto and hosted by Executive Chef Emerie.
Here are the details of National Can-It-Forward Day!
Date: Sunday, August 11, 2013 at 1:00pm EST
Where: Live Stream
How: Before August 11, 2013, register here or Bernardin’s Facebook page.
Then join the online demonstration by visiting the Live Stream and get your canning questions answered live by asking questions in the chat room.
Be sure to use the hashtag #CanItForward and follow @Bernardin on Twitter to join in the conversation!
ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN!
amotherworld and Bernardin are giving away a Home Canning Starter Kit!
Use the Rafflecopter to enter this giveaway!
51 Comments
Strawberry for jam
Great prize! We make our own tomato sauce too, but I’ve never tired making jam. I’m on it! 🙂
I’m partial to salsa these days, yet my mom made the best raspberry jam, I need to start making that again!
What a fun idea! I’m hoping that next year, when I no longer have infants in the house, that I can get my garden back up to a place where it’s growing enough to be canning things from it! Love eating from the garden all year!
I really want to try pickled beans this year, maybe in a mustard sauce. I have my friend’s grandmother’s recipe but I’m kind of nervous about tackling the job. Need some help!
Hi Hazel!
It’s definitely a lot easier than you’re imagining! Check out our website for how-to tips and over 100 very do-able recipes: http://www.bernardin.ca
– Bernardin Team
Specifically, I want to try out canning green beans!
Since we have an apple tree, it is apples
Love pickles of anykind!!!!!!!!!!!! But dills is my fav 🙂
I love this
Pickles :)!!
Tomatoes 🙂
i would love this
Raspberries, for jam 🙂
Hope I can be as good at canning tomatoes as my mom!
Tomatoes
I love canning cranberries – they can be used for either sweet things like jellies, or spicier things like chutneys.
Strawberry and rhubarb jam 🙂
I like to can a mixed fruit cocktail and strawberry jam!
I love canned peaches!! My all time fav! 🙂
I don’t like pears in general, but somehow canned pears are delicious.
Peach marmalade from our peach tree! Want to try chow how this year 🙂
Canned peaches! Always a Fav!
pickled beans
My children were brought up on home made jams, jellies, pickles and relishes. I never thought anything of it til I went back to work and my son refused to eat the peanut butter and jam sandwiches the sitter made him for breakfast, after I told her it was his favourite …. He had never had store bought jam before and definitely did not like it LOL. Now my kids are grown and moved away, but I find myself getting back into canning because the area we live in has such limited selections of goods we like. It means I am starting from scratch, so a starter kit is definitely something that would be very helpful in my kitchen.
Strawberries 🙂
I love salsa and pickles.
Strawberries for jam
tomatoes
I love the combination of strawberries and rhubarb!
i love making my own caramelized onion jam
I’ve actually never canned before..but I would love to make pickles, and jams and chili sauce!!
I’ve never canned before, but in my current healthy organic lifestyle it is a must!
Raspberries
I’ve canned raspberry jam a couple times because we have our own raspberry bushes. If I win this canning starter kit I’ll probably try some other things.
I love all the jams I’ve made, and I’m in a pickle frenzie right now 🙂
The closest I’ve come to canning (always wanted to try) is making dill pickles!
veggies!
plum varenye – it’s a russian style jam.
Tomatoes!
Asparagus!
Peaches!
Beans
Strawberries!
peaches! yummy 🙂
What an exciting giveaway! And now I’ve got to read up on your soups because I have a zucchini soup that I’d love to can, as well as a kale soup that needs to be canned too!
I’ve done some jams, next i want to try chutneys.
Pickles and peppers are awesome to can!
I would love to jam blueberry!
USE MY JARS ALL YEAR ROUND FOR HOT LEFTOVERS…
I like to can tomatoes in salsa and sauce, etc.