Don’t let all those tomatoes go to waste! Try a few different tomato canning recipes this year! Tomatoes produce a lot of fruits, and if you’re like me and plant WAY too many plants each year, you’ll end up drowning in tomatoes. Don’t let them go to waste; try different tomato canning recipes to fill…
If you’ve spent time canning, you’ve heard all about acid levels and why it determines if you can safely water bath can food. Acidity for canning is truly important! While canning jellies and jams are one of my favorite activities, it is important to understand how to do so correctly. There are a lot of…
I came home from shopping one day to find my husband canning cabbage soup. It’s one of our favorite, easy winter dinners. Our spring and fall gardens always contain cabbage, and one of our favorite ways to preserve cabbage is canning cabbage soup. I love stuffed cabbage rolls, but to be honest, all the work…
If you love fresh corn in the summer, preserve it by learning how to can corn using the raw pack method. I love summertime when fresh corn is everywhere. Ohio is corn country, and I drive pass corn fields every single day. So, you bet that I love to can corn at home and enjoy…
If you can’t find canning lids, you might wonder – can you reuse canning lids? The answer might surprise you. We’re going to talk about something a bit more controversial, and it’s honestly a topic that I never considered until 2020 hit. The canning shelves went from full to empty, and despite being a year…
Nothing tastes better on a cold, fall morning than homemade apple butter on a piece of warm toast with a glass of tea. I’m serious guys! I might have a bit of nostalgia about a good apple butter recipe, which makes me love it even more than the average person. You see, my aunt used…
When you learn how to preserve, you’re bound to have some jam and jelly problems. The first time that I made jam, it was so runny that it was more like a syrup than jam. I had no idea what I did wrong, but I knew I messed something up along the way. Learning to…
Have you ever tried mulberry jelly? My kids love it! Never heard of mulberries? Surprisingly, I never had either until I met my husband, and his parents had a massive mulberry tree. I decided that I would learn how to use those mulberries. That meant learning how to make mulberry jelly! The mulberry bush hangs…
Relish isn’t one of my favorite condiments, but I don’t use it all the time. When I do, it’s on a burger that my husband grilled or put into some chicken salad for the perfect lunch. Zucchini relish is one of my favorite varieties relish. I know; you’re probably skeptical. How can zucchini relish be…
Did you know that you can make pickles from zucchini? Their texture makes them similar to cucumbers. Zucchini soak up flavors, so these pickles are delicious. Zucchini bread and butter pickles are my favorite. Zucchini plants produce way too many squashes usually. It seems like you can only make so much zucchini bread, fried zucchini,…
