Preserving our gluts!

[ethelb]

Will anyone join me for a preserving thread? I made two jars of these at the weekend: www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-dill-pickles-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-193350

And one of this: www.myhumblekitchen.com/2013/07/a-simple-recipe-for-homemade-natural-fermented-pickles/

They look fermented.

I'm just waiting for my tomatoes to ripen to can some salsa (maybe green tomato salsa if they don't) and my patty pan squash to hurry up so I can make piccalilli.

I alsready have lots and lots of rubbish strawberry jam. I think I didn't disolve teh sugar properly.

Is anyone else making anything?

bonbonbon yes I have been considering pickled green tomatoes. Never had them but they sound like they would be a very good accompaniment to a ploughmans.

I have just made 10 jars of piccalilli (on a school night!) using the River Cottage recipe as I have used it before and it was v popular: www.rivercottage.net/recipes/pams-piccalilli/ I'm not sure I put enough salt in though as I forgot you were supposed to measure it. I put in a heacy prinkling every layer and added a bit more for every time I mixed it. Hope it doesn't spoil.

I used gluts of runner beans, summer squash and cucumbers from the allotment to make it.

That should do DP for at least three months (sob)

On a slightly more postitive note the lacto fermented cucumbers are AMAZING! And supposedly very good for you. I'm eating them telling myself it is going to cure my eczema (I'm only slightly joking).

victory - any soup freezes really well.
HTH

thanks feetheart a couple of ice-cream tubs boxes of it have gone in :)

I'm regularly making jars of pesto, and bottling roasted tomato sauce/purée for future pasta dishes etc.. And I'm under siege with the aubergines - I've stuffed a load of baby ones with garlic and walnut paste and filled the bottles with olive oil (don't know if I'm looking forward to that or not - they look evil)
Big jar of yellow gages in brandy syrup

I'd like to find a bulk supplier of kilner/preserving jars - any recommendations? They're ruinous in the shops..

Today I've made courgette soup (third batch), wholewheat seedy courgette muffins and I'm in the process of making this courgette chutney

I made the Nigella courgette fritters last weekend, they're a favourite.

Tomorrow I'm trying one of the cucumber pickle recipes that ethelb posted as we've got a few gherkins from the allotment.

The freezer is about full so I think it'll have to be pickling from here on in!

Oh and I'm going to make some rocket and walnut pesto as the rocket is running away. I'm going to try one jar for the fridge and freeze the rest in whatever crevices I can find in the freezer. The Google jury seems to be divided on whether to freeze with cheese or without - anyone got any views on this?

This week I made 2kgs of plum jam and have another 2kgs of plums cooking for the next batch. I have also got a litre of plum vodka brewing up in a cupboard. I also made some elderflower vodka earlier in the summer .

I have also made 4 jars of bramble jelly, and will do another batch sometime this weekend. It seems to have been a brilliant year for blackberries this year and there are still loads in the jungle garden.

For next week I'm planning some apple and marrow chutney (using a courgette that went mad while we are on holiday) and my tomatoes look like there will be plenty for green tomato chutney too.

I am a bit of a preserving nut...

Ooh, elderflower vodka! Recipe plz, Indrid!

Elderflower vodka link coming right up!

Link.

Here's the plum one as well for good measure

Plum.

Brilliant, thanks Ingrid, I'll try the elderflower one next year and may well try the plum one this year if I get hold of some plums!

I made SIX jars of pickles last night (one lacto fermented, the others canned) and two jars of this pickled squash: www.myrecipes.com/recipe/judys-pickled-squash-50400000122603/

I'm runningout of space.

You could use it for a courgette glut as personally I'm not a huge fan of marrow/courgette chutney unless you simmer it for AGES to get rid of the liquid.

I'm also cutting up my runner beans and freezing them. Hope that works.

does anyone have a recipe for cucumbers please? i've got loads....all from the one plant

I'm resurrecting this thread to say thank you to ethelb for the naturally fermented pickles recipe. They are amazing - I've just made two more jars. Fingers crossed they work this time too, they're the best pickles I've ever had.

My first attempt at blackberry jam a few weeks ago was a disaster, I think I left it too long and burnt the sugar. So I'm sticking to the chutneys. Used up a load of unripe tomatoes for a green tomato and chilli chutney and currently got a apple and tomato chutney on the stove. We've got hundreds of chilli's hung up to dry for a few weeks before grinding down into chilli flakes.

Jamie's piccalilli mentioned up thread is delicious. I made some last year and 3 large jars of that didn't last us long. Might have to have another go at that one again soon.

*an apple