COOKING UP MY CANS | Home Canning Meal Ideas | #5
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Welcome to Week #5 of my series COOKING UP MY CANS where I try to come up with new meal ideas using my home preserves!
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I really enjoyed this week's meals! I think that I must have been TOO CHATTY because the video ended up really long even though I didn't make as many meals as I usually do LOL I can't wait to hear what you think of the recipe ideas! Leave a comment below if you are willing to share YOUR SECRET INGREDIENTS to making amazing spaghetti sauce or chili!
One sauce I make for pasta is called Amatriciana sauce which is really easy. I the worst giving recipes but I’ll try.
1/2lb roughly chopped/diced bacon
1 medium onion
28 oz tomato sauce/crushed/purée
1 lb pasta
Parmesan cheese
Salt – pepper
Water-broth if needed
Cook the bacon fully, and remove
Add onion to bacon fat and sauté
Add tomato’s
Add 1/2 the bacon
Salt – pepper to taste
Cook for approximately 45-60 minutes adding water or broth as needed
Cook pasta according to package instruction
Serve with parm cheese and bacon on top.
Another option is to add fresh spinach chopped up about 10 minutes before it is done cooking.
Homemade pizza – pizza bagels- French bread pizza
Meatball stew
8 – 10 med- large meatballs
3 russet potatoes – peeled & cut into large chunks
2-3 carrots (peeled and cut into 1/2” – 1” rounds
1 1/2 large onion ( sliced about 1/4”)
1-2 cups whole fresh or frozen green beans
A lot of fresh garlic diced
28 oz tomato (sauce, crushed, or purée)
1 cup broth (I use chicken)
2 TBSP far from meatballs
Salt/pepper
4 TBSP Parmesan cheese
Prepare meatballs, strain the fat from the pan reserving 2 TBSP and set the meatballs and fat aside
In a large saucepan add the fat and sauté the garlic.
Add tomatoes and let boil approximately 20 mins.
Toss your veggies together with salt/pepper/2 -3 TBSP Parmesan cheese and add to the sauce.
Add meatballs
Add broth
Let cook approximately 1 hour
(It will thicken with cooking)
Serve and top with Parmesan cheese
Have you ever tried making Bloody Mary’s out of any of it? I bet it would be good. I use Emeril Lagasse’s recipe for chili. Has three kinds of beans in it( 1- black beans, 2-kidney). Has a lot of spice in it too, but we love spicy things. Has a little bacon drippings in it that you cook ground beef in it. I use half breakfast sausage and half ground beef. Has bell pepper, onion and 2-3 cloves of garlic too. It has a thinner consistency than most chili. So if you want it thicker just add 1 tablespoon of flour to you seasonings mix altogether then add in to your browned meats. Then add in the tomato sauce and a little water( about 1/2 to 1 cup). Also, I do not drain and rinse my beans…I just pour whole cans in as is. This is just all off top of my head. I do not add alcohol to my chili, but might be good. I do add a dry red wine to my spaghetti sauce, along with onion, bell pepper, garlic, mushrooms, S & P and about 1 tablespoon of bacon drippings. Then if I have it, drop in a bay leaf and medium size of Parmigiana rind and let simmer. I also add about 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of sugar if sauce taste too acidic ( you can add a little diced up carrot instead of sugar). If you still need it to be thicker, add about 1 tablespoon of tomato paste. Makes enough where you might want to freeze some for next time you want a quick meal. Especially after you work hard in your garden. Cook some pasta, heat sauce and there is dinner! Unless you want some garlic bread and a salad to go with it. Still a very fast meal.
If you set a wet paper towel by your cutting board while cutting onions your eyes won't burn 😁
I love the sound it makes when you open a new can. It's so satisfying!
Great recipes. Omg pickle soup. Never heard of it but 🤤. Maybe u can make sloppy Joe's or pizza with the spaghetti sauce.
Onion 😢? My dad's fix is to run your wet hands over your kitchen faucet.
It does work–is it chemistry or daddy magic?
I love Taco sauce on my eggs. Yum
Dill pickle soup is always welcome on a cold day! Glad you tried it. I haven't purchased pickle relish in years. I make a big batch of Ball hot dog relish every year or two.
I canned a lot of cowboy candy and haven't used it. Do you have any good ideas? I need to go through and do what you are doing to use up things that have been on the shelf for a while.
Consider getting plenty of small grain and corn items on your pantry shelves and in your freezer for the next year or so. Come late summer/early fall you'll have problems getting them. It's about to get very interesting. Good thing you have big garden plans this season!
Borsch is what the beet sauce reminded me of. Was it anywhere near that flavour? I have a ton of beets to use up as I like them but no one else does and I get tired of just having a can warmed in butter and salt for lunch. Next time I will try picked beets just to see if they might like that. Also, I did once make pickle soup. It was different from your recipe but I ate it – not my favorite but it was ok. Next time I don't have any food during some sort of pandemic, I can always make pickle soup – my granddaughter loved it as she can make a meal out of dill pickles. I just love this series that you have for us. LOVE it.
Not fussy about beets. I always thought they were too sweet for my pallet. Sharen
Looks like home made French Salad Dressing. Way to go. Sharen
We always do frittata on the stove top, as does my friend who has lived in Italy for most of her adult life. You are doing it right , not the recipe you found !
My go-to chili recipe is a turkey and sweet potato chili! I use about 4 c cubed sweet potato, two cans of black beans (drained/rinsed), 1 lb of ground turkey, browned, a few tbsp of chili seasoning (I use the recipe from Budget Bytes), a few tbsp of tomato paste (optional), a chopped onion and some garlic (browned w the turkey), a finely minced chipotle pepper or two plus some of adobo sauce (you can freeze the rest of the can in small portions!), and about 2.5 qts of tomatoes (diced, crushed, whatever you've got). i let it cook all day in the slow cooker or on the stove, and it turns out great every time!
Hi Jessica, just wondering as I can as well but I see your pantry items don't have jar rings? Do you use them when filling, wait for the pops and then remove? Or do you just can items without using them at all? Thanks and happy Easter 🐣
Maybe add more sauce? That might make a stronger sauce flavor
Breast cancer awareness pasta! Lmao
Hey Jessica! Happy Easter
You can also make lasagna or lasagna soup and throw stuff in it
Another great video!!
I like to add a splash of wine to my spaghetti sauce. My husband adds pepperoni to his. We also add mushrooms, onions, peppers, sausage, beef and/or pork.
For chili I add some beer and it gives it great flavor.
I had an abundance of tomato sauce and I added some chicken stock to canned sauce and had some delightful tomato soup.
I have never seen pickle soup before but I am very interested in trying it!!
Dill pickle soup…not sure I would like that. 😖 But I'm very pleased that you did because it made a ton! 😄
Sounds like you are feeling better. Yay! 🙃
ETA: ham pinwheels….I add cream cheese to mine and cut them thinner than you did. So more like sushi rolls width wise. Yummie.
Polish cucumber soup. Greetings from Poland. We grate cucumbers and add carrots.
You love your silly putty food!! It certainly makes me laugh but you did a great job cooking from your cans. My spaghetti sauce is plain and I use it for pizza and sauce and anything else that I need. I do chili with tomato sauce and beef broth with some seasonings and sriracha for spice. I don't know if I am ready for silly putty chili 😉
lol thanks for the shoutout! Also I love dill pickle soup! I put shredded carrots in mine and shred the pickles too (like on a grater) it makes for such a good texture. I think I need to make some asap 😋😋😋