Make and Can Spaghetti Sauce!
Canning Homemade Spaghetti Sauce. This is a must can here at our place. Having quarts of homegrown, homemade spaghetti sauce in the …
Category: Preserving
Preserving, Processing, Drying, Canning, Freezing, Curing.
How to Blanch Vegetables (or fruits)
How to Blanch Vegetables. Blanching is handy. Blanching is easy. Blanching will prevent you from spending your entire morning peeling tomatoes (or …
How to Can Tomatoes – Fast, Easy, Safe, Healthy
Canning tomatoes is easy. If you can boil water you can can tomatoes. If you are new to canning, this is a …
Pressure Canning Made Easy – How to Can Green Beans in 5 Simple Steps
Pressure Canning Made Easy. Canning green beans is not hard. I know pressure canners freak some people out. I am one of …
Why You Should Can Your Own Food – 5 Reasons
5 Reasons to Can Your Own Food Do you can your own food? Did you know it’s almost free? Did …
Onions – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Planting, Growing, Harvesting, Curing & Storing Fresh Onions
It is time to harvest the onions! This is really a continuation of my original onion post: How to Plant Onions. Go here …
Homemade Pickles – Fast, Easy, Taste Like Claussen!
Not only do these pickles taste just as good if not better than Claussen Pickles – they are quick, easy and you …
Perfect Jelly Every Time – The Secret You Must Know
I have been making jelly, jam and preserves for over 10 years. I know the secret. And I’m going to tell you …
How To Store Cucumbers
How do you store fresh cucumbers? Here’s the dilemma: You are going to make pickles. You want to make pickles. But, you …
Homemade Blackberry Jelly – Easy Step-by-step Instructions
Perfect. Easy. Blackberry jelly. The blackberries are “ON.” If you have any canes around your homestead, and you live near me, you …
How to Render Lard – Easy Easy Easy!
How to Render Lard You will not believe me when I show you how easy it is to render lard. It is …
Why You Should Eat the Grease On Your Soup
Save the Grease. If you have made bone-broth, you probably have noticed the layer of grease that usually rises to the top …
10 Things About Making Maple Syrup
We did some “Maple Sugar’in” last weekend. We tapped 3 Maple trees. This is the time of year when maple sap is …
SUCCESS!!! Who’s Buck is it Anyway?
My husband has been hunting since bow season opened in October. We have decided that aliens have abducted all the deer in …
Homemade Cranberry Sauce – The Old Fashioned Way
How to make Cranberry Sauce. My whole life, I thought cranberry sauce came from a can. I never even considered making my …