As most of you that can already know, there appears to be a black hole that has sucked up all of the canning jars and lids this year. I really hope that everyone that has purchased them is using them and it wasn't a knee jerk reaction to the stock piling that has been going..
Read moreDeliciousness in Fruit Form
This week I was able to get 20 pounds each of Elephant Heart Plums and Freestone Peaches. This has made for a busy weekend of processing and canning. We processed and froze the peaches for future use. Then we processed the plums for plum jam. We have discovered that plums have a lot of natural..
Read moreBread and Butter Pickles
With the larger than normal crop of cucumbers this year we have branched out from the normal fermented pickles to try our hand at bread and butter pickles. We found a recipe from our favorite YouTube chef, Chef John from FoodWishes.com. This recipe turned out great as a refrigerator pickle recipe and with a few..
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This week we had the opportunity to get asparagus from the group that is driving to eastern Washington to get excess produce that would otherwise go to waste. We decided to pickle it to preserve it. We found an awesome recipe in WECK Small-Batch Preserving, see recipe below.
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We are still working our way through the 50 pound bag of onions that I got. Seemed like an awesome deal until you have to do something with all of them. We are about halfway through the bag with a lot of work left to do. Today's endeavor was pickled onions that I canned for..
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With the shorter, colder days ahead, here's some Ciabatta bread we made today! I was intrigued and challenged with the article by William Rubel in the most recent edition of Mother Earth News (December 2019/January 2020). I had always wanted to try making Ciabatta but was always a little intimidated by the end product. After..
Read moreWeck Jars
After being raised with the traditional american Mason jars I have discovered that the German made Weck jars are superior in many ways. They have reusable glass lids and rubber gaskets which eliminates waste on single use products. They are more expensive on the front end but some far have lasted a lot longer and..
Read moreDandelion Jelly
Made Dandelion Jelly after seeing a recipe for it in Can It & Ferment It by Stephanie Thurow. Not going to say it was easy to open up all of the blossoms it took to make a cup of petals but it turned out really well and it tastes like honey. Interesting experiment. #jelly #dandelion #gardening..
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