Excellent idea

Occasionally I’ll also do something like make a burrito in a jar and can that. I’ll pop taco seasoning, chunks of meat, bell peppers and onion into a jar and do a raw pack pressure canning on it. When I want a juicy meaty burrito I popped the can open, heat it up in a pot and put it into a tortilla. Then again sometimes I’ll serve it over rice.

A 1 lb bag of beans and a one pint can of beans weigh about the same amount. As for storage, one of the first projects I undertook when I moved into my house was to make sure space would not be an issue. I built myself some custom shelves.

For canning I do a oil for 5 minutes and then hot soak for 45 minutes to an hour depending on the bean. Then I put them in the jar with a little bit of room for expansion. Then I fill with boiling water leaving 1 in of headspace. Then I can pints for 75 minutes after all the venting and bringing the pressure.

Definitely. Gotta plan one day or two hours in advance.

I do those too.

Beans, enchilada sauce, cheese. Sometimes homemade tortillas.

As am I. But these aren’t those. This is a giant spicy beef, a both a chicken and beef chimichanga. They are on another level from mini micro burritos.

It’s a convenience thing. It takes as much work to make beans for one meal as it does to can for seven at once. It saves a lot of time. Even if you pressure can day of. One soak, one cook is a lot less work than repeating it 7 times.

I frequently run into people that want to do things like can rice. Rice takes 20 minutes from start to finish and, like beans, are shelf stable. But beans require two hours of work if not precooked in addition to the pure nastiness of the texture of canned rice. Canned beans don’t have that issue.

I think it’s been generally assumed that all fish has parasites and that is why it all needs to be flash frozen before sale and distribution.

For me, the issue isn’t if they have parasites. It’s what we do to prevent those parasites from infecting people. Flash freezing solves that problem.

I’m with you. I like mine crispy but she likes hers sad. She was raised in Pennsylvania and that has caused a lot of problems.

She. My wife. Mentioned in previous posts for regular viewers. Rey, typo. Real.

I almost diced up a jalapeno on it, but then I figured it would be too close to last night’s dinner.

When I priced the previous meals I only priced what was used at the time. These leftovers are about on sale potatoes, half an onion each, fat and about half a cup to a cup of leftover protein from things I had previously canned when it was cost effective to do so. So that price per person is for this particular meal with all ingredients counted.

In case anyone else needs this:

I just showed this and the previous one to my wife. She wants to know if there is some kind of toxoplasmosis thing in owls that makes them oblivious to the danger of other owls

I’m not a wrestling fan but this is the perfect response.

It’s not a dish that wants to look good for plating.

This is the reason I came to the comments

I kind of like the asymmetricalness added by the shoulder shield.

To me, every photo here looks real except for the one with absolutely perfect lighting and a whole bunch of predators standing next to each other.

I can accept two predators next to each other. I deal with that all the time. But when you get six different ones from six different species and they’re not known to have undergone any domestication and you combine that with perfect lighting reality falls apart.