What hobby do you enjoy? I make polymer clay jewelry.

[MissB]

40. Gardening, canning

I grow my veggie garden from seed each year. All of it, from basil to zucchini.

I can. I started with basic water bath canning - jams, pickles, applesauce. I’ve graduated to pressure canning, eventually buying an All American canner (and letting it sit unused in the basement for 5 years). My most recent canning includes a carrot ginger soup base (for coconut ginger carrot soup, I purée the ingredients when I open the jar and add some coconut milk when cooking it). Also a simple chorizo hash that has sweet potatoes in it. And of course more basic stuff like beef burgundy, beef stroganoff (again adding the sour cream when opening the jar to cook it for dinner), pork fajitas strips, beef street taco meat, and honey garlic pork. The honey garlic pork is fav of dh’s- I make quinoa as a base to a bowl, heat up the honey garlic pork, shredding the pork a bit while it simmers in the pan and then adding the pork and roasted veggies to the bowl. He likes it with some Yumm sauce on top but I’m happy with it just plain.

Anyway, I don’t just pressure can my garden produce!

I also crochet and sew.

I’m in my 50s. I had two amazing grandmas, though my mom never did these things.