After sharing our bountiful harvest last week, the question arose about how to preserve carrots. That's a good question. Here are a dozen ways to preserve carrots. Most of them we are using or have used in the past. Storing carrots in the cellar Carrots are a root crop that stores very well ...
Food Preserving
Freezing Raw Tomato Sauce
Preserving tomatoes for winter has two reasons. For one we want to enjoy the summer bounty year-round, but also there are often way more tomatoes in the middle of summer than we can eat, so preserving is the best way to use up the harvest. We already covered the easiest way to preserve ...
Sour Cherry Jam Recipe Without Pectin
This delicious sour cherry jam recipe without pectin comes from my long-time best friend. We both grew up on the same narrow street in a small town. Even though we have moved to different towns, countries, and continents, our friendship never got lost. Friendship like ours is seldom, and it is ...
Raspberry Chocolate Jam Recipe
Raspberries are hand down my favorite berry, and chocolate is my favorite treat. In this recipe, we combine those two into a raspberry chocolate jam. How delicious is that! For most of the raspberries we harvest, we freeze whole for our breakfast porridge. At the end of the berry season ...
Strawberry Rhubarb Jam Recipe
Strawberries and rhubarb are a great combination. They ripen at the same time, they balance each other out and they make the yummy strawberries go so much farther. The dominant taste of strawberry rhubarb jam is still strawberry, but with a nice twist. In my recipe, I use a half and half ratio, ...
Fermented pickles for winter
Fermented pickles for winter tick all the boxes. They are naturally fermented, crunchy but still not too salty, and keep well for months. If you love fermented pickles, you know the challenge. They are either very salty or just don't stay crunchy. I certainly do. Since we do not like things ...
Incorporate Home-Canning in Meals
Canning and preserving, to fill shelves with colorful jars, is great, but what now? How do we incorporate home canning in meals? For me, it was a bit of a learning curve. Recipes usually do not ask for home-canned produce. Some popular brands of condiments or salsa on a grocery store shelf might ...
Pickled Beets Recipe
This pickled beets recipe is for canning in a water bath or steam canner. It is a traditional sweet pickle recipe, great for variety. In combination with the vinegar, it makes for a sweet and sour taste. Yum! Having canned food on hand makes for an instant meal. And if it all is homegrown and ...
Making Homemade Fire Cider
We have been making homemade fire cider for many years using basically the same simple recipe. However, I have never shared it on this blog. If you follow us on social media, you probably have seen it many times. Every fall it goes around. It's time to share it here also. What is fire cider If ...
Pressure Canning Potatoes the Raw Pack Method
Pressure canning potatoes the easy raw pack method does not come from a book. It was developed over the years to see what works best. It is the simplest way to can potatoes there is and in my humble opinion the best. Of course, I would say so, right? :) We will talk about safety later in the ...
