Gardening, Cooking & DIY Living
Instead of grabbing a can of pumpkin puree off the grocery store shelf this year, make your own! This time of year we often get emails asking how to turn pumpkins into pumpkin puree. Everyone seems to be in the
At the end of garden season when we have a bunch of extra jalapenos we preserve them by making chipotle peppers. It is a great way to use up those end of the season, over-ripe jalapenos. What is a Chipotle
It is easy to make Sun Dried tomatoes, even if you don’t live in a hot or sunny location. Okay, I guess technically, they aren’t actually ‘sun dried’. However, by following the below instructions, you can make your own dried
Every time that I make this Easy Sweet Pepper Jam recipe, I get so excited. Not only do I get to enjoy the canned sweet jam throughout the year, but I also get to share it with others. In fact,
This Canned Stewed Tomatoes recipe is a great way to use up an abundance of garden fresh tomatoes. During the peak of our garden harvest season, we typically gather 2-3 bushels of tomatoes every day. Although we eat a lot
Once the tomatoes in the garden begin to ripen we often get email requests for our classic canned salsa recipe. Although we make several different variations of salsa, including everything from Picante Sauce to Roasted Corn Salsa, this is our
Are you looking for some fabulous recipes to use up the zucchini from your garden? Or have you been gifted zucchini from your gardener friends and don’t know what to do with it besides making zucchini bread? Although we absolutely
One of the very first crops that appear in our garden are radishes and by the end of summer we often struggle on various ways to use them. As the garden begins to grow, it is so exciting watching those
There is nothing better than opening a jar of homemade Strawberry Jam and knowing that it was made in less than 30 minutes. We have been making our own strawberry jam for longer than I can remember. For us, it
It’s apple season and that means it is time to make our homemade Freezer Apple Pie Filling. Each year as the weather begins to turn cooler, one of our favorite things to do is to stroll down our mini-orchard and