The canning season is a busy time of the year. Preparing and storing canning jars so that they are ready to be refilled helps a lot. Yes, it eliminates a few steps of work during the cunning season. This can be done all throughout the winter as jars get emptied out, or beforehand in spring. Just ...
Food Preserving
How to Freeze Beets
We love beets, they are healthy and just so delicious. There are many ways to preserve beets, here we share how to freeze beets in 3 different ways. We like to grow Cylindra, a very sweet Heirloom beet that grows in a long cylindrical shape. Very nice for slicing. Sometimes they get really big, ...
How Much Food Can an Urban Homestead Grow for the Winter
How much food can an urban homestead grow for the winter? Here we share our Northern Homestead homegrown food storage as of today, Thanksgiving 2018. We are doing our best to live mindfully, kindly, sustainable and joyfully. Our food storage is filled to overflow because we have been blessed with ...
Dozen Ways to Preserve Zucchini
Since zucchini is such a versatile vegetable and there is always an abundance of it available we need a dozen ways to preserve zucchini. Speaking of dozen, I don't mean a number, just many ways. Here are actually more than 12 ways in this post. We have used all of this at one time or another. Choose ...
Apple Sauce, Apple Jam, Apple Butter
The canner is running hot these days. There are so many goodies that are ready to be preserved and that we do not want to miss making. Apples are one of our favorites to preserve for winter. We make applesauce, apple jam, apple butter and apple chips. Also, the ajika salsa recipe includes apples. If ...
Carrot Pepper Salsa Recipe
As you already know we love salsas. They transform a simple meal into a delicatessen in minutes. This carrot pepper salsa recipe does that in a different and delightful way. It's a mouthwatering and colorful addition to potatoes or pasta dishes. Also great as a dip for fresh vegetables and combined ...
Homemade Ajika salsa recipe
If you were wondering what we did with the biggest tomato we ever grew? We used it for the homemade ajika salsa recipe and canned the salsa in 18 jars so we can enjoy it for a very long time. Yes, all of this was made out of 1 tomato and all the other ingredients of course. Homemade Ajika is ...
Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce
Follow my blog with Bloglovin We have been enjoying the yummy taste of homemade oven roasted tomato sauce for a few years now. It all started when fellow blogger The Free Range Life posted the Roasted Tomato Sauce recipe that looked so yummy and sounded so easy. Since we had lots of homegrown ...
The Easiest Way to Preserve Tomatoes
From the moment we plant the very first tomato seeds (when it is still snowing), we look forward to harvesting the ripe tomatoes, biting in, and savoring the taste ... Yummy! We grow many tomatoes, so we can enjoy them right from the vine, in salads, and meals. We also preserve tomatoes in yummy ...
How to Freeze Greens
Dark, leafy greens are so healthy and great in green smoothies and in hearty dishes. You want to make sure to have them available year round. It is really easy to do so by preserving them! Here is a how-to freeze greens. What greens can be frozen? I'm pretty sure all edible greens can be ...