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1. Social gathering with the book club.
2. New handheld vacuum cleaner.
3. New bookcase configuration.
4. Orioles Pride Night jersey. This is especially gratifying because the opponent for the night was the one remaining MLB team that doesn‘t have their own Pride Night.
5. Local wine and pickled vegetables from the farmers market.
#5joysfriday

This is a solid book of canning (and other jar-using) recipes. If I were to have just one canning book, this would be a good choice. However, nothing felt particularly inspiring. Except for the pancake and cake recipes (dry ingredients in a jar) at the end—that just shows that I‘m a baker at heart more than anything!

“We can put them in a jar and save them.“

I think this is a great book to talk about saving memories. Growing up is difficult because at such a young age you can't always remember a lot from growing up so this fun story can help you with that.

In this story Freda the main character comes to a dilemma after blueberry picking with her grandma. She realizes that she can save things by memories. The author does a great job talking about how memories can be saved and this is a great book for upper elementary school students.

I like this author‘s attitude to canning—that you don‘t need massive amounts of sugar, basically. And she has a more efficient way of dealing with the jars and lids than I‘ve seen before. There are lots of interesting recipes in this book, both basic and more unusual, plus recipes for ways to use those preserved foods, which I appreciate even though almost none of those recipes are relevant to me.

I was expecting a cookbook, and this has recipes in it, but only a few. Mostly it tries to persuade the reader to store and preserve lots of food (and other emergency supplies) and explains ways of doing so. It is simultaneously very specific to 2009 and still topical today. (The few times she mentions the possible coming flu pandemic… well.) I am somewhat persuaded. I appreciate the focus on not just providing for oneself, but one‘s community.

#BookBinge

Perhaps stretching things for today‘s prompt but highlighting a favorite cookbook that has the word #SmokeOnCover 💨🩶

Although there is a section smoking food, my favorite recipes that I make often are the easy & oh-so-delicious Spiced Feta in Olive Oil & Persian Marinated Olives. Linking to the recipes in the comments below. 😋⬇️

I took a food preservation class at my local library and got excited. Also, they are apparently having a contest among the county branches to have more books checked out. I was happy to help out 😁 #libraryhaul

Current read - because the onslaught of cucumbers and summer squash is about to begin. 🥒🥒 🥒

Anyone have other picklin/fermenting/canning favorites?