Behold my pastured chicken soup that has been sitting on a SHELF at ROOM TEMP for WEEKS now:
I recently purchased an electric pressure canner that was on sale for $110 on that Bezos website and I’m captivated1.
My husband asked me what happened to take me from zero to 100 on canning and it’s because I figured out you can can meat and soups. I have zero interest in spending time making USDA approved recipes for jams or jellies or pickles or veggies. But once I found out I could can meat so that it is cooked and ready to heat and leftovers of my huge batches of soups (instead of serving the same soup for lunch and dinner three days in a row) I got real interested real fast. It makes days when it’s 4:30 and the kids are getting hangry and I have no idea what we’re going to eat for dinner so much easier.
Costco organic chicken breast is the first thing I ever canned. Appropriate since all I ever post about is canned chicken but I genuinely hope I never have to feed my family that slop. My plan is to trade it for a golf cart when SHTF.
Making my own canned chicken was easy and tasted much better than commercially canned chicken. If you have an instant pot electric pressure cooker the learning curve using an electric pressure canner is shallow. There are only a couple of differences.
And I know but I recently made a Facebook account for the first time in a decade to talk about chicken things and I found out about this group:
Not gonna say it’s perfect they like profanity tee hee a little too much and it’s tiresome and half the posts are about making a dulce de leche out of slowcooked sweetened condensed milk and calling it “slut sauce” tee hee BUT if you dig through the boring stuff there are some gems on there if you want to attempt a recipe that is not necessarily USDA-approved. My next projects will be chicken pot pie and wild rice and ham soup.
So far I have canned:
8 quarts of pastured chicken vegetable soup
10 pints of Costco organic chicken breast
15 pints of beef bone broth (we have a full grass fed beef in the deep freeze2 and those bones were taking up a ton of space so it feels good to get that out of there)
10 pints of grass fed sloppy joes
2 quarts of leftover Latvian pork stew with caramelized onions and stewed apricots that I made because I read about it in a book and it sounded tasty
I have not died or killed anyone with my cooking as of publication date.
I know what you’re thinking ma’am shouldn’t you be fermenting something? but I don’t know anyone who cans. I’ve been telling friends all about it but no bites yet. I posted in a local moms groups searching for someone in the area who cans so we can swap recipes but the only responses I got were people interested in purchasing my canned food or asking me to teach them how to can but I don’t think I’m ready for botulizing other families or teaching anyone anything yet
I have nightmares about us losing power and having all that meat spoil- we do not have a generator- so getting some of that canned is a relief.
Can can can you do the can can?
I need to know moooooore… First off, how do I find you on FB? Secondly, is Costco’s organic chicken really good? I go an hour out of my way to buy Empire Kosher chicken breasts and would love to find something comparable that’s easier to get and cheaper.
And apologies for missing any previous posts that would’ve answered my questions. 🥺