Preservation Notes - San Joaquin Master Food Preservers

What is your favorite spread to go along with peanut butter. Typically we choose a jelly or a jam or marmalade or some fruit topping made with fruit, sugar and pectin. We have many recipes for many different fruits and fruit combinations for our jellies and jams.

I love a well prepared turkey. The crisp skin, the juicy dark meat and the white meat leftover for sandwiches. Its too bad we only have turkey ba few times a year. But one thing we do have, and we have it often is chicken.

A few years ago our daughter gave us a few bottles of infused olive oils. They were really beautiful. Many of us love making and receiving a personal hand made gift. With this gift it provided me the opportunity to explore what can be used to infuse flavors into olive oil.

Hello friends, 2020 is about to come to its rightful close. But before it does, many of us find ourselves in various lockdown situations. Some of us are just hunkering down because of our age and our health, or the age and health of those whom we could be caregivers.

Halloween and Thanksgiving are giving way to Christmas, New Year's eve celebration and other high holy days. With this time of great celebration there is usually a meal with plenty of great food. One of the vegetables of the season is the great pumpkin. It can be used pies and custards.