Gardening, Cooking & DIY Living
Our Concord grapevines are loaded with grapes this year and that means it is time to make our own grape jelly. As much as I see websites posting about making strawberry jam or jelly, I rarely come across a recipe
Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipe Every year when the tomatoes in our garden begin to ripen I get so excited. Not only do we have delicious tomatoes to eat, but it is also time to pull out all of our favorite
Every year as the tomatoes begin to ripen in the garden, I know that it is time to get prepared to make and can tomato juice. However, the first few ripe tomatoes from the garden are always used for eating
With canning season in full force, we receive several emails, Facebook messages and even phone calls every day on questions that pertain to canning. These questions range from a simple request for our favorite pickle recipe to how to can
Sweet and spicy zucchini relish is a terrific way to use up all of those zucchinis from your garden. It seems like every summer our zucchini plants produce high yields that we can’t eat or give away fast enough. We
This is the absolute best sweet pickle recipe that I have ever made or eaten! When tasting this recipe some people guess that they are bread and butter pickles. That is because they are a sweet pickle. However, in reality,
Because we get lots of questions on how to make pickles we decided to share our favorite crispy dill pickle recipe. We love to make our own pickles from our garden cucumbers. But how disappointing when you open a jar
When I first tried pickled asparagus I was pleasantly surprised at the slightly sour, yet classic flavor of the asparagus in every bite. What I wasn’t happy with was the cost of jarred versions in the grocery store! So we
Every year we pick so many cherry tomatoes that we end up spending hours searching the internet for various ways to use them. This year we were determined that no produce harvested from the garden would go bad before we
Over the past several years, many of you have asked us for our Hot Pepper Mustard Recipe. Well, until now, that recipe has never been shared, not even with Jim! I first had hot pepper mustard when I was in