If you like apple jelly, you will love knowing how to make apple jelly from juice! Using bottled juice eliminates the need to make your own, and simplifies the jelly-making process, while keeping all the flavor, and satisfaction of having homemade jelly! I remember the first time my mom made apple Keep Reading
Canning/Preserving
Canning/Preserving is a great way to stretch your bottom line when it comes to saving money. You can easily buy fruits and vegetables in season and in bulk, and work on canning them in order to have fresh fruits and veggies any season out of the year. Some of the ways to preserve foods and goods go beyond just produce. You can preserve juices as well by freezing them. You can try canning on hearty fruits and vegetables like apples, pears, peaches and tomatoes and kale. However freezing works best for berries, fruits and bananas. The recipes for canned and preserved fruits are endless and you can use them just as if you were using fresh ripe products. The best way to use the preserved are as jams and jellies but using them in smoothies and fruit pies are an viable option as well as sauces. The possibilities are endless and you can insure that your family has access to tasty produce year round!
Raspberry Peach Jam Recipe
This Raspberry Peach Jam recipe combines two of summer's best fruits for a flavor-packed treat! Perfect on hot, buttered biscuits, or your morning toast. One of my favorite things to do is make homemade jams, jellies, spreads, butters - and whatever else you might put on biscuits or a piece of Keep Reading
How to Can Diced Tomatoes
Have tomatoes coming out your ears? Here's a recipe showing you exactly how to Can Diced Tomatoes! Are home grown tomatoes one of your favorite things? I honestly can’t think of anything better right now. This year we planted a bunch of heirloom tomatoes, mostly brandywine, and they’re my absolute Keep Reading
Old Fashioned Pickled Beets Recipe
Do you want even the biggest beet skeptic to eat her beets? This old fashioned pickled beets recipe will make even your pickiest kids love beets! The truth is, I don’t think I ever ate a beet before I was 14 years old. My mom didn’t like them, and what she didn’t like, she didn’t buy. Simple as Keep Reading
How to Make and Freeze Pumpkin Pie Filling
Harvesting pumpkins or looking for what to do with that jack-o-lantern pumpkin you picked up? Here's how to make and freeze pumpkin pie filling! Having your pumpkins stored as ready-to-go filling will make your fall baking quick and easy this year! Fall’s here, and as cliché as it is, that means Keep Reading
Cinnamon Pear Jam Recipe (with canning instructions)
This easy jam recipe gives you all the sweetness of pears, combined with the spice of cinnamon for a flavor-packed jam you will adore! We may be too far south to grow apples, but the pears send us the same signals that fall is near, and combine with the same flavors to fill our pantry shelves with Keep Reading
How to Make Pickled Jalapeños
Are you growing jalapeños? Here’s how to make pickled jalapeños - it’s so easy! This year, we planted quite a few peppers and tomatoes, all in two rows. Sadly, one of those rows, not more than six feet from the second one, shriveled up and died. But fortunately, the jalapeño plants were all in the Keep Reading
How to Make Chipotle Peppers
That’s right! You don’t grow chipotle peppers - you make them! And it’s an easy process if you have a wood grill or smoker. Here’s exactly how to make your own chipotle peppers. Did you know that pepper names change when they’re dried? For instance, Poblanos become Anchos. Here’s a handy list: One Keep Reading
Old Fashioned Bread and Butter Pickles
Looking for a good old fashioned bread and butter pickles recipes? Better yet, want pickles that stay crisp even after you can them? This is your recipe! Every spring, I plant a few cucumber plants. Just a few - in my mind anyway - but we always seem to end up with literal bucketloads Keep Reading
Blackberry Freezer Jam Recipe
Blackberry season is here, and here's the blackberry freezer jam recipe you need to preserve your harvest - without even cooking! I loooove making jam. I always have. And of course, like any red-blooded human, I love eating it too. The problem is, it’s usually more sugar than Keep Reading