{"id":491,"date":"2017-09-24T15:55:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T22:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2017-09-24T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T22:55:52","slug":"preserving-analysis-summer-fall-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Preserving Analysis, Summer-Fall 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good stuff:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fresh tomato sauce, cooked and frozen<\/li>\n<li>Conserva di pomodori (homemade tomato paste), salted and oil-topped in fridge, no-salt in freezer<\/li>\n<li>Sundried tomatoes<\/li>\n<li>Bruschetta in a jar (only make one recipe though, we won&#8217;t eat it fast enough)<\/li>\n<li>Basil pesto, frozen (trade\/give away most of it, we eat it but produce far more than we can eat)<\/li>\n<li>Kimchee kraut (for me, he&#8217;s not a kimchee fan)<\/li>\n<li>Apple butter<\/li>\n<li>Dried and ground chiles (from last year)<\/li>\n<li>Zucchini &#8212; shredded and frozen for zucchini bread<\/li>\n<li>Zucchini chips<\/li>\n<li>Dried mushrooms &#8212; made from the get-rid-of-&#8217;em cheap bin ones from the grocery store. Well worth the $1 and the time on the dehydrator for adding oomph to sauces and soups and stuff<\/li>\n<li>Dried cherries &#8212; purchased from Costco, pitted and dried. Luckily put away or they would already be gone. Much cheaper than buying that quantity myself, and no sugar added. I should make muffins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stuff that may or may not be worth the effort:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zucchini sott&#8217;olio &#8212; delicious but five days worth of work for a small jar. I am all for slow food, but I have limits. Also takes up space in the fridge. Might be worth doing one jar a year, or several jars all at once, but not more than that.<\/li>\n<li>Dried pepper chunks &#8212; we still have some from last year. They are delicious, I just keep forgetting we have them.<\/li>\n<li>Apple liqueur (?). Still resting, check back in a few months. The liqueurs are tasty but we don&#8217;t drink them very fast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stuff that doesn&#8217;t work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fermented condiments (hot pepper paste, basil paste) &#8212; we don&#8217;t eat them fast enough, and there&#8217;s plenty fresh most of the year<\/li>\n<li>Roasted plum tomatoes, canned \u00e2\u20ac\u201d canned is great but we have so much fresh-frozen tomato sauce we&#8217;re probably not going to get to these<\/li>\n<li>Regular dried eggplant and dried zucchini, they don&#8217;t get used<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good stuff: Fresh tomato sauce, cooked and frozen Conserva di pomodori (homemade tomato paste), salted and oil-topped in fridge, no-salt in freezer Sundried tomatoes Bruschetta in a jar (only make one recipe though, we won&#8217;t eat it fast enough) Basil pesto, frozen (trade\/give away most of it, we eat it but produce far more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[247,246],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canning-and-preserving","tag-preserving-analysis","tag-preserving-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6CUdQ-7V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}