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Food Preserving

All about freezing vegetables

All About Freezing Vegetables

In regions with a short growing season, the desire to savor the summer's produce into the winter is obvious. Given that frost graces our lands for nearly half the year, freezing as a means of preservation seems a fitting choice. Freezing vegetables is perhaps the simplest method to extend their ...

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Transform Your Canning Experience with a Steam Canner

Transform Your Canning Experience with a Steam Canner

Have you heard of steam canning? It's an ideal approach for processing fruits and acidic foods. It is an alternative to water bath canning but cannot replace a high-pressure canner. We invite you to transform your canning experience with a steam canner.  I have to admit that I never ...

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Haskap (Honeyberry) Jam

Haskap (Honeyberry) Jam

The Haskap (Honeyberry) jam opened up this year's canning season. Its tart, sweet, rich taste is very delicious. It is also simple to make since no pectin is needed. The berries are rich in natural pectin.  This year for the first time we had enough berries to make jam. Usually, we enjoy the ...

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Growing Sunchokes or Jerusalem Artichokes

Growing and Using Sunchokes or Jerusalem Artichokes

Sunchokes, also known as Jerusalem Artichokes, have a mixed reputation among gardeners. Some claim that they will always feed you, while others would never grow them in a food production garden. After growing and using Sunchokes for several years now, it is time for an update. Let's take a closer ...

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A Dozen Ways to Preserve Carrots

A Dozen Ways to Preserve Carrots

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 ...

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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 ...

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Sour Cherry Jam Recipe Without Pectin

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 ...

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Raspberry chocolate jam Recipe

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 ...

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Strawberry Rhubarb Jam Recipe

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, ...

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Fermented pickles for winter

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 ...

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