Would all the smoke and haze affect pollinators?
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I would like to can a SMOKED bean recipe...
Comments (18)Ok I'll stick my neck out but upfront is a BIG disclaimer that in no way is this tested, approved or even recommended. And add all that stuff the fast talking lawyers say on the adds on TV, ok? ;) The BBB Boston Baked Beans is the closest to your recipe posted above. 1 qt. dried navy beans (about 2 lbs.) 1/2 lb. salt pork cut into pieces 3 large onions, sliced 2/3 c brown sugar 2 tsp. salt 2 tsp. dry mustard 2/3 cup molasses Since you will be using the Bush canned beans I won't include the part in the recipe about pre-soaking/rehydrating the dried beans. Pour beans into a baking dish or bean pot. Add pork and onions. Combine remaining ingredients and 4 cups of the reserved bean liquid and add water to make 4 cups if necessary. (I would measure the juice from the Bush cans and bring it up to 4 cups with extra water, maybe even add a can of tomato sauce to it.) Ladle sauce over the beans, cover and bake at 350 degrees for about 3 1/2 hours. Add water if necessary as beans should be soupy. Pack hot beans and sauce into hot jars leaving 1 inch headspace.** Remove air bubbles. Adjust 2 piece caps. Process pints 1 hours and 20 mins, quarts 1 hour and 35 mins at 10 lbs. (depending on altitude). Now for the deviations: I see no problems with adding the pineapple as it is acid, HOWEVER it will change the density so finely chop it (not chunks) and add the pineapple juice too. Your recipe calls for less onions so use its lesser amount and the ketchup in your recipe to help compensate for the change in density the pineapple causes. This gets you everything EXCEPT the peppers and you will have to use dried, not fresh, for those - either dried pepper flakes of some kind or dried peppers that have first been rehydrated in vinegar, not water. Follow me? Just too much pH effect otherwise. Of course you can always add them after you open the jars at serving time too. **When it comes to filling the jars you MUST have this be SOUPY and thinner than normal, much soupyier than you wish. The other baked bean recipes say "fill the jar only 3/4 full and the rest of the jar with liquid, remove air bubbles and add more liquid If you have to add more water to the cooking liquid to have enough - do it. Better too thin than too thick. You can thicken it up at serving time by cooking it down or adding a bit of corn starch or flour. OK? Dave ~ ducking from the hail of stones ;)...See MoreTomato 'Purple Haze'
Comments (21)Susan, You're welcome. With your interest in tomatoes, there are two books I highly recommend. I first read them about 7 or 8 years ago when I was trialing large numbers of open-pollinated types and I wanted to know more about where all these tomatoes came from. The first is by Andrew F. Smith and is "The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture and Cookery", University of South Carolina Press, 1994, and my copy is a paperback copy published by the University of Illinois in 2001. I enjoyed every bit of it and have reread it several times. I especially enjoyed the section on the tomato as medicine. Before reading it, I didn't know that "tomato pills" were a form of snake oil medicine touted to cure every ill known to mankind, and there was a great tomato pill war between competing manufacturers/sellers. I kind of giggled my way through that part of the book. There's also a bunch of fascinating very old recipes dating back to at least the 1800s. The other is the book about early tomato breeder and seed seller A. W. Livingston and is called "A. W. Livingston and the Tomato". It was written by A. W. Livingston and his sons and was first published in 1893. After reading it, I went to Victory Seeds, which is the online source for the most varieties of Livingston Seeds you'll find in one place with their authentic history, and bought every variety of Livingston tomatoes they had. I still grow one or two Livingston tomato varieties every year. I bought both of these books "used" for very reasonable prices on Amazon.com long ago and thoroughly enjoyed every bit of them. There are many more 'technical' tomato books out there, but I wanted these for the history. I've read 10 or 15 tomato books in the last decade, and there hasn't been a bad one in the bunch. Dawn...See MoreSurgery Side Affect
Comments (14)I was so happy to see this post; I quit smoking with the aid of Chantix after only 12 days. It has made a huge change, for the positive, in my life. I can look back now (it's been a year and a half) and see that smoking was really a mental thing...in my head. Those times when you think you'd "like" a cigarette will pass quickly if you tell yourself in your head that "I don't do that anymore". It reminds me of how Tony Robbins says that once you make a "real" decision and stick to it you know all the other things it takes to make that decision come true. Many times when I've thought I'd like a cigarette what I really needed was a break. Just to sit down and take a break or have a snack or walk away from what I was doing. I was substituting a cigarette from just a break in general. I think you are making that connection now. If you can only be mentally aware of that as your body is getting used to getting the nicotine out of its system you will be a winner. And I hope I'm not offending any smokers but I really do feel good about myself when I see others going outside in the freezing weather or rain to have a smoke. Or having to run to the store because they're out of cigarettes. I'm done with that! I wouldn't even bother counting the days or months but I happen to know it was just before Christmas last year. It's not important how many days....I just know that I dont do that anymore. And I really sincerely wish this success for you also. Please keep posting! BTW, I am diabetic too!...See MorePlanted early, mid and late corn. All pollinating at once!
Comments (3)Yeah not good to plant different varieties all at the same time. Always space out your plantings by 2 weeks. Too many variables that can affect DTM and weather is only one of them. If the silks and tassels are all fully developed then you'll get some crossing. How much it will affect the flavor depends but no it isn't ruined, just crossed. You can always try detasseling each variety like we used to have to do with field corn and hand pollinating it with its own pollen before any of the other variety pollen gets to it. Just depends on how good your timing is and how much corn you have to do it with. Just Google detasseling corn. Dave...See Moremxk3 z5b_MI
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