Peaches, have such a great flavor and are so very delicious when they are in season. But what if you have a hankering for a juicy, flavorful peach out of season? You may have to be content with a pithy, subpar peach in the off season. But if you know how to can peaches, you […]
How to Make Strawberry Freezer Jam, with Video
Last year, I made a batch of strawberry freezer jam with MCP gelatin. I didn’t want to add the corn syrup in, so I changed the recipe just a little from what the box said and it turned out great. This year I opted to purchase my favorite brand of pectin, Sure-Jell. I like Sure_Jell […]
Easy Refrigerator Garlic Dill Pickles
A while back, I made some refrigerator dill pickles. They turned out to be just, ok. They were a little salty and although we ate them all, I wanted to find another recipe to use. So my search was on. My search brought me to this recipe. I wanted to make sure I found a […]
Easy Strawberry Freezer Jam (no corn syrup needed)
This past week I picked lots of strawberries out of our little strawberry patch. It’s so rewarding to go out and find so many yummy berries waiting to be picked. Since I had a good harvest, I decided I needed to make some jam. I really love freezer jam for two reasons. One, it’s easy […]
No Pectin Blueberry Jam
We have a couple of blueberry bushes at our house. They don’t supply us with much more than berries to eat fresh. But occasionally, I will get some blueberries from our neighbors or I’ll find a great deal at the store, when I do I make this easy to make blueberry jam. Now I don’t […]
Pear Coring and Pear Jam
This is the time of year to get lots of canning in. Usually I am working on pickles and tomatoes. But this year our garden didn’t fare very well so we didn’t have too many extra tomatoes and we ended up with no cucumbers after my cucumber plants died twice. After the second fail, I gave […]
Canning Pickles and Why I Should Read More Carefully
For the last two weeks I have made it a goal of mine to get some pickles canned. I usually just do up a jar or two of pickles as I harvest cucumbers from the garden. But this year we had a cucumber failure. None of our plants survived. Since I wasn’t going out to […]
Make it from Scratch Challenge..No Pectin Plum Jam
My aunt stopped by for a visit and she was bearing a gift. She had brought us a nice bucket of plums from her plum tree. These plums were very plump, juicy and flavorful. But I knew we wouldn’t be able to eat them all before they would go bad so I decided to make […]
Preserving Our Garden Bounty, Canning Green Beans
Well, these beans weren’t exactly from our garden. A couple of weeks ago I had my friend give me a call offering home-grown green beans. Well, how could I turn that offer down. Free food is always something I will receive, after all if we can’t use it, I can always share with the neighbors. […]
