Canning

Ah, to be able to bottle the tastes of fall and enjoy it all year long. Did you know that you can? How, you may ask? With this delicious pear sauce! Pear sauce is just what you think it is. It’s ripe pears, mushed and cooked into a slightly chunky, slightly smooth sauce. It’s great

We love to plant tomatoes in our garden in the spring. We always underestimate how many tomatoes each plant will give us, so we end up with so many ripe globes of goodness! Fortunately, there are salsas to be made, chilies to be eaten, and pizzas to be baked. There is also pasta. Oodles and oodles of

When peaches are in season, this peach jelly recipe is one you’ll want to keep nearby! We make this peach jelly from peelings to avoid waste. This peach jelly is a great way to use up all the “scraps” of the peaches, and it’s so delicious! My kids will eat through a jar of peach

Peaches are such a versatile fruit. You can make them sweet or savory, in salads, cobblers or as the star of the meal. My favorite is making homemade peach butter.  It’s perfect for spreading on toast, biscuits or even as an ice cream topping. It’s easy to preserve as well by water bath canning. So, here’s how

Chicken chili. Chicken nachos. Chicken tacos. Chicken salad. What do all of these meals have in common? Well, chicken, of course – but more specifically, shredded chicken. Sure, you can cut up chicken breasts into individual chicken chunks and cook them on their own each time a recipe calls for it. But that’s an incredibly

With blueberries in full abundance for only a short time, we gather and preserve blueberries in as many ways as possible. The question is how to make blueberries last longer? We use blueberries in smoothies, oatmeal, granola, in pies, or on top of ice cream as well as flavoring kefir and kombucha all winter long.

I love filling my pantry with all the garden, and other homesteady goodness. It makes it so much easier to run to the pantry and grab a meal to go, so I also fill my pantry with home-canned beans and soups. For a quick and easy meal, I can chicken soup. It’s truly a quick,

You many wonder why someone would bother canning dried beans. After all, they are already in a perfect storage condition, right? Well, not always. Dried beans still need water and time to cook, and if you are in a situation where time water, or heat to cook are at a premium, then dried beans are

Growing carrots in my home garden has been difficult for me. I have tried all the tips and tricks to get them to grow, but to no avail. Then, I had a HUGE harvest one summer, a total of 32 carrots. Don’t judge…for me that’s huge! Some of the things we learned that helped us