What Rhymes With Orange?
It's that time of the year, time to enjoy pumpkin. Ever since I was a kid the one thing I always enjoyed about this time of the year was pumpkin seeds. My dad and I would go to Keil Brothers, a local nursery in Queens, an

Ok, you did hear an explosion, but it wasn't my pressure canner.
My previous post about canning I talked about my fears and all of the urban legends about canning disasters. Add to that I broke one of the locking handles on the top of th

Why is it called canning, shouldn't it be called jarring?
This has been something that has been bothering me for a long time. When I think of canning I think of a metal can, something that tuna fish or green beans come in. Canning involves using glass jars, so I'm confused why isn't it called jarring? This is why I don't sleep well at night

The Last Farmers Market or what am I going to do for the next seven months.
I know I haven't posted for some time and I have been to the farmers market almost every week this summer. My wife and I even one Saturday went over to the Beaverton farmers market, a big mistake. It's like taking Ma and Pa Kettle and putting them in the middle of Times Square and telling them t