Making and canning homemade jam is a great way to save the fresh fruits of the season. When Spring and Summer fruits are in season, many of us will reach for our homemade jam recipes for canning to preserve that precious harvest. Not much can beat the flavor of homemade jam spread over a biscuit or… [read more]
Pear Sauce
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… [read more]
4 Quick And Easy Ways To Preserve Eggplant
We planted purple eggplant in our garden this year. It was our first time, as a matter of fact. A friend of mine blessed me with 4 eggplant starts and I figured, “why not?”. The eggplants took over. Seriously. There was no room left to run or hide. I had made all the eggplant recipes… [read more]
Make And Can Homemade Spaghetti Sauce
How to make and can homemade spaghetti sauce for all your pasta recipes! 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, chilis to be… [read more]
Making Homemade Peach Jelly From Peach Peelings
When peaches are in season, this recipe for peach jelly 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… [read more]
Peach Butter To Make And Can At Home
Peaches are such a versitile 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.… [read more]
Preserve Peaches In 4 Delicious Ways For All Year Enjoyment
I love peaches. They are so sweet, juicy, and there’s nothing better on a warm fall day then enjoying biting into one and having peach juice dribble down your chin. Peach pie, peach muffins, peach cobbler are all on the menu when peaches come into season. When peach season comes in, it’s for a short… [read more]
How To Become An Urban Homesteader-Dreaming The Homestead Dream
Homesteading is a journey, a process. Learning to become an urban homesteader is all about the art of making do with what you have, where you are and going forward into a dream. A dream where you can take care of yourself, grow your own food, and be “one with” the world around you. Being… [read more]
Canning Chicken At Home {Stock Your Own Pantry}
We like to raise our own meat chickens each year. We like knowing what our food eats, that it has had a happy life and has been treated humanely, both in life and in processing. You just never know all that with any store bought chickens. Our meat birds have had a happy life, living on… [read more]
Pressure Canning Beef {Stock Your Own Pantry}
Each year, we purchase a side of beef, or a whole cow, depending on prices. While it’s awesome to have all that meat, storing it used to present a problem. I don’t have a lot of freezer space. And there was this one time that the freezer went out on me days after I got the… [read more]