Can it!

So we had our first attempt at canning. When I say we, it was more due to the efforts of Vicki (Dolphin) and Jen on Waka Irie making use of Katie's large galley (Toodles). They get all the credit really. Needless to say, as a collective, we did some canning. This was back in Panama by the way, where red meat is very affordable! 

We made bolognese sauce, beef curry and chilli con carne. All in small reusable glass jars (i.e. the lids were reusable). The mixture was made and placed in the jars and popped in the pressure cooker then the lids tightly sealed. We shared the goodies between the boats (unfortunately I did not 

take the camera so will need to hijack some pics from Katie's facebook one of these days).

To remind them of the old days, we gave Jean and Alan (Legend IV) a jar of our prized bolognese sauce. Still awaiting the verdict :)

We also tried pickling some beetroots and carrots. The carrots turned out fine and we still have some left, while the beetroot unfortunately did not have enough water to cover the beets and some of the ones exposed to air grew some funky stuff that we could have made penicillin with.

Being rather wary of botulism, we watched the little pots over a few weeks looking for the tell tale sighs of the lids popping up (or the look of something that the Ghostbusters might hoover up growing in the jar). They all looked fine.

So, one night we took the plunge…popped a little bolognese sauce on our pasta and gobbled it up. 

It was fantastic and we look forward to noshing the rest. Great work team!