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Thread #96933   Message #2221453
Posted By: wysiwyg
23-Dec-07 - 02:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: Cooking Spenser & Sophie Style
Subject: RE: BS: Cooking Spenser & Sophie Style
LOL, I've been collecting the nice wide-mouth jars the natural peanut butter comes in, thinking that I must deifnitely see if they freeze safely. Oh yeah-- did you know that you can freeze canning jars as long as you leave enough headroom for expansion. (I leave the lids off till the freezing is complete, just in case.)

So I was looking for an empty "test jar" to fill with tap water to see what would happen before risking any "valuable" stock..... I finally found it. In the freezer. Full of the chicken stock Hardi had made and reduced. Un cracked. Hee-boy! We eat a lotta PB (with the morning oatmeal), so jars forever, yay!

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UPTHREAD
I gave my XL-crisper trick for keeping Romaine, etc. for 2 or more weeks. Mine's too full right now to add the delicate baby spinach I want to hold until Christmas dinner, so I took a large stainless bowl, put a wet paper towel folded in the bottom, covered that loosely with a small plastic bowl lid to keep the spinach from touching it, and tossed in the spinch (as we call it). Tucked all into a plastic grocery bag, left loose, and bingo! Slimefree InstaCrisper!

~Susan