My New Year's Resolution

This year for New Year's I resolved to learn to can foods.  Of late, our freezer has become entirely jammed full of homemade chicken stock and precooked beans and homemade lemon curd (a terrible problem, I know).  I put it off for many months because, well, pressure canning sounded scary!

This beast came in the mail.

It makes a nice addition to all of our millions of stock pots.

I also got some new little accessories and, of course, a couple of flats of jars.

One day I finally got up the gumption to cook up an extra large batch of chicken stock.

I lined up all my little tools,

sanitized all of my new jars,

and got to canning!

Success!

I didn't even explode the whole house!