I spent most of yesterday working on beans. I ran to WalMart to buy jars and utensils. I got a couple of other things while there, as well. 
Then, I had to clean up my kitchen enough to get to work. After lunch, I had to start cutting beans so I had something to can. Then, finally, I started my first batch. And it worked! All but one, I think, sealed correctly. They all sealed, but one might not be totally right. So I guess we’ll just have to eat that jar now!
Eric got home about 3:00. I was watching The Pursuit of Happiness (Will Smith movie) while cutting beans. We got it from Netflix weeks ago and hadn’t watched it. So I figured I would just watch it so I could return it. Eric got to see about a third of it, but he was fine with that. And now I can put it in the mail today.
I finished my batch of beans and then got dinner ready because Eric wanted to go see The Simpsons Movie. So we did that. He was a bit disappointed, I think. But our viewing was somewhat disturbed by the people a few rows in front of us who thought that absolutely everything that happened on the movie was hysterically funny. It wasn’t. So even the things that might have been funny weren’t because these people (especially a woman who kept screeching) were making such a fuss. Maybe talking about it at work today will help Eric find some of the humor in it…
Today, I’m having lunch with a friend, and other than that, I’ll be working on more beans. Should be fun!
The beans sound so yummy! Good job persevering in preserving them)! = )
^ yes, it is. I will not eat that kind. ^
^Really?^ I prefer home-canned that my mom gives me (free, no work, home grown taste), but I buy canned beans all the time. My kids eat them straight out of the can, room-temperature, with ketchup. Is that strange?
I love canned beans. Love them, love them, love them. Like the cans you buy at a store, not the ones that take a lot of work. And I love the taste of the store ones much more than the home-grown ones!
I haven’t really noticed much difference between store bought and home canned green beans. Other than the fact that you KNOW what was put in them and how clean the area was that you worked in, not much difference in taste. The biggest difference is the cost!
^Store bought beans and home canned beans do NOT taste the same.^
Child, child……….you don’t ‘cut’ beans, you break them! And again I feel the necessity to point out – – – stores sell these foods….
How many beans do you have?!?!
ha! that exact thing happened to us at the simpon’s movie too! the guys sitting behind us laughed obnoxiously at EVERYTHING. it kind of ruined the parts that actually were funny, you know? it just reminded me that the simpon’s is a show best left to TV in the privacy of your own home.
How many jars did you get done yesterday?
I hate it when people mess up my movie experience. Ugh.