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<\/a>After taking a quick inventory of our chest freezer, I decided to use one of the several beef roasts to make and can veggie\/beef soup.\u00a0 In all of my 63 years, when making a beef-type soup, I’ve opted to make tomato gravy base stew (with carrots and potatoes).\u00a0 After seeing a few online videos on making veggie\/beef soup, I decided to try my hand.<\/p>\nOnce the beef was cubed and seared, I was surprised how fast the soup came together.\u00a0 I added chopped whole canned tomatoes, onions, frozen soup vegetables, celery, carrots, garlic, cabbage, potatoes, broth, beef base and water.<\/p>\n
As soon as the soup came to a boil, I ladled it into 6 quart jars and pressure canned them at 10 lbs. for 90 minutes.\u00a0 I continued cooking the soup that was left until the potatoes were done.\u00a0 We ate it for last night’s dinner.<\/p>\n
Oh my, that is some really<\/span> good soup.\u00a0 Bob liked it so much, he headed to the store this morning to buy more of the same ingredients so I can make and can more.\u00a0 We like having enough on hand to eat and share.<\/p>\n With leftovers from baking a big ham this week, I plan to can more charro beans this weekend.\u00a0 We enjoy eating them often and everyone I’ve shared with has requested more.<\/p>\n We also discovered several whole pork butts in the freezer.\u00a0 I am seriously considering making tamales during the Christmas holiday.\u00a0 It’s a BIG job but I figure I can spread it over 2 days and accomplish it.\u00a0 We will freeze them and bring out a few at a time to eat with canned charro beans.\u00a0 It’s an easy, delicious dinner!\u00a0 I wonder if I can convince Bob to make a thick chili I could can for a terrific tamale sauce.\u00a0 He makes excellent chili and I have plenty of 1\/2 pint jars available. \u00a0 Sounds like an outstanding idea.\u00a0 I hope he thinks so too.<\/p>\n We expect to see Jacob this weekend and by studying the calendar, this might be our Christmas gathering.\u00a0 We do not decorate or make a big deal of exchanging gifts.\u00a0 We celebrate by being together.\u00a0 I’m looking forward to seeing him.<\/p>\n Shirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m on the home stretch of quilting the Urban Renewal quilt.\u00a0 All that’s left is about one half of the last flying geese border and adding the binding.\u00a0 Then it will need a good hand washing.\u00a0 I’m anxious to see it finished and to start hand stitching the next quilt (batik Winding Ways). After taking (continue reading…) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,11,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}