I save all my canning beans days for when it’s winter and there is no humidity in the house. Fire up a few canners and steam the house while prepping beans for the coming year.

I used to do a potato leak soup all the time but my food desert makes leaks a very rare item.

I have gallons of stock on hand that I have canned myself. I do not believe in using it for when I will be discarding it, things like boiling pasta or potatoes in. It’s too valuable a resource to drain off even if it’s practically free.

I am 31 years clean from D&D but I’d be interested in any stats or backstory anyone comes up with.

It is definitely hard to look away from Mouse Guard. The art and scenes rope anyone in.

No latch for me. I may have seen my dad just once a month for about a year of middle school and then maybe twice a year the rest of the time. I needed 6000 calories a day on the cheap and this ‘snack’ offered 2400. It’s probably impossible to eat 2400 calories in sugared apples in a single setting. That’s probably 15 apples and half a cup of sugar. Or 25 apples with no sugar.

Tiger shading? Zebra Hatch? I just wanted something super bold and rolled with it even when I thought I was definitely making the wrong call.

I lived off bacon fat fried potatoes for a long time. I haven’t made them in decades. My after school snack used to be a pound of pasta and a stick of butter with salt and pepper. Haven’t made it since middle school.

I feel like I can feel the texture difference. I haven’t done a double blind test but I’ve always known and confirmed it in the past. Tomatoes are 94% water. That water expands when it freezes and rips apart the fine fibers that would normally stay intact but soften when cooked. It results in a mealy texture I’m not fond of.

And, as mentioned, I really don’t want stuff like this clogging up my freezer. I’ve had three refrigerator and freezer fails in the last 8 years. By canning things I make them shelf stable. No electricity required for storage. No waiting for things to thaw.

I never freeze tomatoes. It destroys the texture and takes up freezer space. We recently won a $100 gift card for groceries. I’m thinking some of that will go to onions, peppers and other fixings for me to can up some salsa. Maybe a light tomato pan sauce on pasta for dinner. That should take care of all of it.

The recipe I used. I made it to letter in order to avoid ruining a comfort food and sleeping on the couch. But I’m all in favor of your ideas. Only after she ate it did she remember that I should have added bacon.

It is absolutely vital for some things. This is definitely one of them

It makes the difference between ripe in a week vs green compost in three.

Doused? No. Not everything is a conspiracy.

It’s a natural thing already in the bananas. Evaporate? No. Offgas.

If you put green or barely ripe bananas in there you will get almost zero difference from a control group with no banana. You have to wait for the banana to ripen so that it starts putting out the ethylene on its own as part of the ripening process. You have cause and effect reversed on bananas. That ethylene offgas help certain other fruits to ripen.

Baked a loaf of crusty bread. Leave it out for a day. Then use this recipe.

Sweet

I assure you we can. We are very capable of it.

I thought about doing savory but decided sweet was better than toad.

Make a loaf of crusty bread. Leave it out for a day.

Then use this recipe.

For a moment I thought this was an unfinished dailybunny

I haven’t really drawn much of anything in years other than the occasional Celtic knot or D&D critter. I picked up the necessary supplies to get back in just before inktober started and then I found out it existed so I decided it would be a good crash course for finding areas I need improvement on and cram in a lot of practice on a schedule.

Overall it was a success. I need to loosen up a lot. I need to work on figure drawing and faces.