This tomato salsa canning recipe is packed with tomatoes, peppers, onions, and just enough spicy tingle to tickle your taste buds. Open a jar any time and enjoy with tortilla chips or with your favorite Mexican inspired meals. Many of us begin a vegetable garden with dreams of preserving the harvest dancing in our heads….
Canning & Preserving
Preserving the harvest by canning, freezing, dehydrating, storing in a root cellar, or other methods.
Small Batch Sweet Cherry Jam Recipe
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This chunky, low-sugar cherry jam is delicious slathered on toasted homemade bread, swirled in yogurt, or drizzled over ice cream. Less sugar lets the natural fruit flavor shine. Cherry season is fleeting. Fresh cherries are only available for a short time. Each year, I try to eat my fill, and then capture the delicious, flavor…
Pickled Garlic Scapes Recipe
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Love pickles and garlic? Then you are going to love the flavor of these pickled garlic scapes. Garlic scapes are the flower stalks of hardneck garlic. They have a delicious mild garlic flavor that is delicious pickled. Learn how to preserve garlic scapes by pickling for a delicious, garlicky flavored snack, side dish, or sandwich…
Sweet and Sour Cherry Sauce
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This sweet and sour cherry sauce recipe can be made from fresh cherries and fresh pineapple or bottled juice. It is delicious as a dip, in stir-fry, or drizzled on chicken, pork, vegetables, noodles, or rice. Cherries are only available for a limited time during the year. When they reach my local grocery store, I…
14 Crops for Winter Food Storage
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Take advantage of your local farmers’ markets and farm stands in the fall and stock up on these locally grown crops for your winter food storage. If you have an area in your basement, crawlspace, or garage that stays cool all winter long, you can make use of these cold spots to keep storage crops…
Honey Sweetened Concord Grape Jelly
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Make and preserve your own homemade Concord grape jelly! Concord grapes have a slightly tart, musky flavor but can be transformed into a delicious grape jelly with a little sweetening. This old-time favorite is sweetened with honey in this recipe. Concord grapes are behind the flavor of grape jelly traditionally used in peanut butter and…
3 Ways to Dry Peppers for Food Storage
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Whether you found a great deal on peppers at the farmers market or harvested a bumper crop of chiles, you can turn that bounty into a shelf stable pantry staple that will add lots of flavor to your meals. Here are three ways to dry peppers for food storage. Got peppers? Drying is an excellent…
How to Freeze Peppers
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Got an abundance of peppers from your garden? Whether you have hot chiles or sweet bells, here is how to freeze peppers to enjoy all winter long. Since our growing season is short, I try to leave peppers on the plant as long as I can so they have a chance of ripening fully. Then…
Small Batch Chokecherry Jelly from Foraged Fruit
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This small batch of chokecherry jelly uses only one pound of foraged chokecherries. It is a perfect balance of tart and sweet resulting in a jelly that tastes delicious on homemade bread and pairs well with poultry dishes. The natural range of the common Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) tree includes much of southern Canada and northern…
How to Harvest and Dry Herbs for Storage
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There are many ways to dry herbs so that you can enjoy them all year. Learn when to harvest and how to dry herbs to preserve their essential oils for the greatest flavor intensity and medicinal properties. There is nothing better than the flavor and aroma of herbs harvested fresh from the garden. I really…
Wild Violet Vinegar Infusion
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It is easy to make your own wild violet blossom vinegar. See how simple it is to infuse vinegar with a subtle violet sweetness and a purple flush of color. I know it is truly spring when the grass turns from brown to green, and I spot the first purple and yellow bursts of color…