Giveaway: Put 'Em Up! Fruit & Ball Heritage Canning Jars

You’ve likely seen the Put ‘Em Up! Fruit blog tour steaming along through preserving and other lovely blogs; today I get to host! These sites hosted giveaways on Sherri’s blog tour:

• 4/8 Food In Jars
• 4/9 Punk Domestics
• 4/10 Autumn Makes & Does
• 4/11 Local Kitchen
• 4/12 Mission: Food 
• 4/15 What Julia Ate 
• 4/17 Daily Dish Recipes

These sites are currently hosting or slated to host this giveaway:

• 4/16 Tigress in a Jam Ends 4/24, head here!
• 4/18 Shockingly Delicious, Ends 4/25, head here!
• 4/22 From Scratch Club, Ends 4/26, head here!

Sherri’s site has videos and her physical book tour schedule posted.

So, this is a book review and I’m totally jazzed for this opportunity from Storey Publishing. Put ‘Em Up! Fruit is a fine resource for the newly initiated and for the old hat preserver. I love Sherri’s approach both here and in her first preserving book, Put ‘Em Up. While the main preserves recipes look great, it’s the Use ‘Em Up ideas that have my heart. 

As some of you might know, I’m on a sweet preserves hiatus (except for the one jam we actually eat, strawberry). From gifted jars to my low-grade hoarding behavior of delicately-flavored jams, the pantry is certifiably stocked. Letting those jars age indefinitely isn’t really the best use of the time that went into making said preserves, so 80 recipes using homemade fruit preserves (or projects) are a blessing!

I’ve also been on a pickling tear, especially with fruit. (I find pickled fruit infinitely easier to incorporate into everyday dishes and their syrups/brines into delicious drinks called shrubs.) I leafed through the book and decided to pick a Use ‘Em Up recipe in lieu of highlighting the fruit recipe. When I stumbled upon the Sweet Pickled Plums recipe and its corresponding use, Cinnamon Rice with Pickled Plums. I had a few different pickled fruit jars to choose from, peaches, pears and, the one I opted to use, tangerines.

Cinnamon Rice with Pickled Plums

shared with permission from Sherri Brooks Vinton and Storey Publishing

halved, so it serves 4-5

1. Heat 1 Tbs olive oil in a medium saucepan, add half an onion, diced finely and 1 tsp salt. Sauté until onion is translucent.

2. Add half a can (13.5 oz) of unsweetened coconut milk, 1 cup water and 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon. Bring to a boil and then add 1 cup long-grain white rice. Cover and cook until there are craters in the rice and the liquid is absorbed, about 20 min.

3. Dice (or chop) 1/4 cup pickled fruit (or more to taste) and scatter over finished rice, let rest for 10 minutes. Fluff with a fork and serve. We topped ours with sprouted pepitas, which added a nutty finish.

Here’s a super-fabulous added bonus, Ball, one of my preserving class sponsors, agreed to throw in another case of the Heritage Collection Jars (6 to a case) to the winner of this preserving-centric post.

Enter to win these two treats by making a comment below telling us what fruit you’re awaiting your seasonal chance to hoard or your funniest moment with fruit (mine being when I rolled a 5-gallon bucket full of rhubarb strapped to a luggage cart onto a Brooklyn bus during rush-hour. It was funny after-the fact, in an I’m-glad-no-one-shoved-me-out-of-the-door-I-was-smashed-up against-for-30-minutes kind of way.)

Enter by 11:59 CST on Thursday April 25. US residents only, per Storey’s shipping request. And if your email address isn’t in the box on the comment form where it’s supposed to be, you won’t win. I’m not hoarding it, I just need to reach out to you early, early on Friday morning.

Disclosures: There are Amazon affiliate links from which I may make an ever so small commission. Ball provided me a free case of Heritage Collection jars and sends a case to the winner directly. The review copy and book giveaway prize are provided courtesy of Storey Publishing. Opinions and statements are my own.

Update on Friday, April 26, 2013 at 9:00AM by Kate

Congrats to Shannon, lucky number 62!

Thank you all for entering and sharing your fruit hopes and funnies.

Comments

[Michelle]

I am looking forward to cherries so I can make cherry jam!

[Charity]

I am super excited about getting more mangos and guavas. My husband wants to make some guava jelly and I am totally excited about it. My funniest fruit moment was when I lived in Florida and I was walking with my mother in law I saw someone in her neighborhood had a tree overflowing with what I call stringy mangos. I was desperate for some and told my mother in law that I would ask the person if I could have some. She was like you don't even know them. I said I know but when it comes to food you make friends! Lol! I knocked on the door and the neighbor was very sweet told me I could take as many as I like. I took all that I could carry and planned on coming back a second time but I was too full! Lol

[Genan Kirby]

Can't wait for peaches! I make peach preserves and serve them on warm Brie with toasted almonds. I put them on baked chicken. I make peach crisp...OMGoodness and waffles, ice cream, homemade yogurt, ...I must stop...I am drooling!

[Amy Donovan]

I can't wait for blueberries! I made some fantastic blueberry/cherry jam last year and will try some new combos this year! My funniest experience lately was when I took the Vitamix cover off (big no-no) while liquefying my fresh garden spinach and all of a sudden it EXPLODED and I ended up with green goo all over myself, the walls, the ceiling! It was pretty funny in retropspect!

Amy Donovan
saa1007@aol.com

[Anita]

Looking forward to sour cherries. With last year's messed up Michigan spring, we missed the ONE week they were at the market. It's been a LONG winter without cherry jelly. Funny moment, actually a duh moment, was when the first time I went to make cherry jelly I spent about 2 hours pitting the darn things only to learn that you don't have to. Doh!

[Sara]

By popular request from my family, strawberries. Though I'd love to get my hands on the more unusual plum varieties, personally.

[Lisa]

I'm looking forward to hoarding strawberries as I love to make and use strawberry jam. I hope to try a strawberry/balsamic jam this year and I also have to admit, I am excited to be growing pickling cucumbers this year to can my own dill pickles. :)

[Stephanie]

CHERRIES. And other stone fruit. And tiny tart blueberries. And strawberries and rhubarb and tomatoes. Summer has the best food.

[Rachel]

Peaches! Out here in the PNW, they are UH-mazing but we have to wait until August for the really, really good ones.

[Cindy Clingan]

I can't wait to get fresh blueberries to make blueberry syrup. My family loves it - on pancakes, mixed with yogurt, on ice cream......it's delicious, pure summer!

[Samantha]

I am looking forward to everything, but maybe apricots most.

[Linda]

Peaches and tomatoes! I may go forage for loquats too.

[Holly]

I'm growing pickling cucumbers in my garden so I can try making my own pickles this year. I'm new to canning and thought this might be a good way to get my feet wet.

[Katie]

Last year I noticed my neighbor had an ENORMOUS rhubarb patch growing like crazy and totally neglected. They said we could pick as much as we want and I made my husband pick about four garbage bags full. He thought I was crazy but I just can't turn down free rhubarb!

[Beryl Lynn]

Great giveaway! We are really looking forward to all of the berries this year. Raspberries, Blackberries, Black Raspberries, Strawberries.. I'll have you know that we are purchasing a deep freezer just to hoard the spring's bounty of berries! We just put in a 5,000 sq ft market garden (and are expanding in summer) so we need as many mason jars as we can acquire.. canning days are ahead!

[Jeannette T.]

I can not wait for..... Strawberries, cherries, tomatoes.

[Sarah | For the Love of Chow]

Cannot wait for my peaches to come in! And then tomatoes!

[Caitlyn]

Nectarines! I love them when they are slightly crunchy. A tasty pickle perhaps?

[Jyll]

I'm looking forward to peaches! I intend to make about four times as many jars of peach preserves as I did last year. They were popular and went FAST!
Thanks for the giveaway!

[Danielle C]

Peaches! I'm going to try preserving for the first time this year. Wish me luck, I'm afraid I'll need it!

[Emily]

Peaches! All kinds of peach jam and butter and salsa!

[April Furey]

I cant wait for watermelons. Id like to try canning/pickling some this year.

[Sunshine]

I am looking forward to peaches so I can make yummy jelly to put in my homemade yogurt :)

[Kalah]

Living in the city can make gardening next to impossible at times. We are going to attempt to grow mini cucumbers for pickles on the deck this year! But I'm also looking forward to picking berries and apples at the local orchards for jams and fruit butters!

[Megan H.]

Peaches! I cannot wait for them....mmmmm.