Canning ham

Quite a few stores are clearing out their ham supplies this week. A few days ago, I happened upon a deal that was too good to pass up. I ended up buying 4 fully cooked holiday hams at a great price…

Ham is LOW ACID and must be pressure canned. Be safe and Be sanitary. Ham was on sale this week $1.27 /lb. Still not as good as the sale prices on major holidays but not bad at all. Truthfully it was one of the few edible items worth buying this week. I selected the bigger of the two (10 lbs) and decided I wanted to try something a little different. I dug my cutters out of the drawer and found one that fit the inside of the 1 pint wide mouth. I wanted to do sliced rounds a little short of an…

Canning meat is one of the best uses of canning know-how. It allows you to purchase meat when it's at its most affordable, and then easily turn it into something that will last for years without spoiling. Plus, in my opinion, it actually improves most meat! (Because the canning process makes the meat super tender and moist.) Best of all - having canned meat on hand is super convenient and really speeds up meal-making. But not very many people are used to eating canned meat, so it can seem…

Every Easter we eat dinner at my parents house. One of our favorites is our Easter ham! But this year, due to my Dads sodium restrictions, the entire leftover ham came home with me. Not complaining y'all. Ham is my jam (see what I did there). I knew that we'd never eat the entire ham

Another of my rainy week canning sessions using up some of my sales that I ran across this month already. Ham and white bean soup is one of ...

This easy recipe for canning delicious ham and bean soup is a great example of awesome things that you can preserve in jars and have on your shelf ready to eat. This simple recipe is very easy to make, just add ingredients to a jar and put in the pressure canner. It does not require cooking the beans, just some chopping up of the ham and vegetables. It is also a great way to use up that leftover holiday ham!

Canning ham and bean soup at home provides quick and easy healthy meals straight from the pantry shelves.

Home canning authorities say not to home can cured meats. The issue is that curing changes the density of the meat, and that that changed density has not been tested for safety.

This is hands down my very favorite potato soup! It is the one I grew up eating, as it is the one my grandma (Nonny) always made. I love to have this on my shelf at the ready. If you don’t ca…

Last week Meijers had Cooks Choice bone in hams on sale for 87 cents a pound. I bought 4 of them. One I bought for Easter Dinner and the ot...