My maternal grandmother used to make bread and butter pickles and I remember how the house used to smell when she had just made them–like summer. I started making them several years ago and that smell brings back memories of my sweet grandmother. She always put celery and onions with the cucumber slices, so IContinue reading “Spicy Bread and Butter Pickles”
Category Archives: Canning
Now is the PERFECT time to make Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam
My rhubarb produced enough harvestable stalks for me to put some in the freezer, and to make some jam. I love strawberry and rhubarb together and it tastes like summer to me and reminds me of my grandmother. Here’s how I made it: Ingredients: 4 cups of crushed strawberries 2 cups of rhubarb cut intoContinue reading “Now is the PERFECT time to make Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam”
Cranberry Raspberry Orange Sauce
I have never been a fan of canned jellied cranberry sauce–the shape of it; the taste of it; the awful sound it makes as it slides out of the can. There was nothing about it that I found appealing in any way. So I started making my own cranberry sauce from a recipe that wasContinue reading “Cranberry Raspberry Orange Sauce”
Chicken Soup (et al) Base
I roasted 4 chickens the other night for a chicken pot pie (recipe post to come), which was more chicken than I needed for just the pot pie, because I wanted to can some broth with chicken in it for recipes. First step was to pull all the meat off of the bones. Then IContinue reading “Chicken Soup (et al) Base”
Pinto Beans
My husband loves pinto beans and ham, but the rest of us are just okay with them. So, I decided to can some with ham broth, onions, and ham so he can have a modest amount instead of the giant batch we usually end up with. I started by soaking my pinto beans overnight coveredContinue reading “Pinto Beans”
Shitake Harvest
We harvested SO MANY mushrooms and we used a bunch, but there were too many for us to use before they went bad. I estimate that we picked a total of about 7 lbs. So, I cut the stems off of all the mushrooms. I borrowed my mom’s dehydrator, and I dehydrated the mushroom. IContinue reading “Shitake Harvest”
Buon Appetito! Homemade Roasted Garlic Marinara and Limoncello
We went to the Mennonite market with a friend and their canning tomatoes were a really great price $14/box. I wasn’t going to have time to work with them then, but I went back later and bought a box of them to make sauce out of because we are COMPLETELY out of the sauce IContinue reading “Buon Appetito! Homemade Roasted Garlic Marinara and Limoncello”
Blueberry Lemon Jam
We had this during our trip to Highlands, NC and it was fantastic, so I decided to make some. Here’s how I did it: Ingredients: 4 cups frozen blueberries, thawed 4 1/2 tablespoons pectin 1/4 cup lemon juice Zest from 2 large lemons 5 cups of sugar Process about half the blueberries in the foodContinue reading “Blueberry Lemon Jam”
Strawberry Rhubarb Jam
My rhubarb produced enough harvestable stalks for me to put some in the freezer, and to make some jam. I love strawberry and rhubarb together and it tastes like summer to me and reminds me of my grandmother. Here’s how I made it: Ingredients: 4 cups of crushed strawberries 2 cups of rhubarb cut intoContinue reading “Strawberry Rhubarb Jam”
12 Days of Christmas Jams, Jellies and Marmalades
I got a crazy idea to make 12 different kinds of fruit spreads to put in boxes for my sons’ girlfriends (and also a few other people). Even when I am using my own fruit, I like to freeze it first (especially berries) because then they are so much easier to crush. So I startedContinue reading “12 Days of Christmas Jams, Jellies and Marmalades”
