Doctor Domestic

Today started out innocently enough. I had bought a few pounds of strawberries with the idea of making strawberry jam. I’ve tried my hand a few times at canning with mixed success. So I decided to use the VERY FIRST recipe in my Ball “Complete Book of Home Preserving”. Its the first recipe in the chapter called “getting started”. As in, if you can’t get this down, please put down your canning pot and step away from the kitchen. Well, I was feeling pretty good about myself. I’m no beginner, I’ve done this whole canning thing at least 4 times…

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I read a comment on another blog’s comment thread that prompted me to think about blogging my mistakes as well as my successes. This could mean a less-than-tasty pasta dish, an undercooked roasted chicken (which I am an expert at making, by the way) or any number of ways to mess up perfectly well-meaning baked goods. But, I realized it can also mean those disasters which set of fire alarms, ruin cookware, and cause you to have to replace the vent filter over your cook-top.

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