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Maintain Your Stock – Keep your eyes open
This is one of several posts on maintaining your stock. As we are going into canning season, the first several will deal with canning related topics. However, they can also be applied to stock you...
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Tomato Canning, Day 1 – crushed tomatoes
Part of my kitchen was redecorated last week. It is also what kept me busy all of last week. Thankfully I had a light week otherwise – my husband didn’t come home for lunches so no need to cook...
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Tomato Canning, Day 2 – spaghetti sauce
After turning 100 lbs of yellow tomatoes into 31 quarts of crushed tomatoes the first day of canning, it was time for some spaghetti sauce. Since I still had 100 lbs of yellow tomatoes that were...
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Tomato Canning, Day 3 – more spaghetti sauce
Here is a better picture showing what you want to see if you are making sauce or juice. The thicker stuff on the left is very similar to applesauce; very good for sauces. On the right is more like...
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Tomato Canning, Day 4 – pizza sauce
The end is in sight!! The last several boxes of tomatoes were to be used for pizza sauce. By this point several of the tomatoes were starting to go bad. In the end I had about a box of tomatoes...
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Tomato Marmalade
Tomato marmalade was something I wanted to make from the first time I saw the recipe. It definitely qualified as a “new recipe”. I love trying new things. In canning it seems like there isn’t much...
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Spicy Tomato Jam
After seeing the recipe for tomato marmalade I saw began searching the same website for other unique tomato recipes. That is how I came across the recipe for tomato jam. Since only a few tomatoes...
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Spaghetti Sauce and Cleaning The Stove Top
Canning season is upon us; has been for a while now. I am finally getting to the tomato canning portion of my “want to preserve for winter” list. The first steps I knew pretty well: wash tomatoes...
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Pickling With Ball -September 4th
My luck with pickles has not been the best, they always come out too soft. If you are like me, then this may be just what the doctor chef ordered. Related PostsCanning Jars Creating a Garden Calendar...
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This Week In The Garden
What a week this has been. Today has been the first morning that was relatively “free” to do with as I please (read: canning, finally!) Then a call came, “You haven’t dropped off the plans yet this...
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This Week In The Garden – November 22, 2014
This week has been fairly quiet in the garden, if you look at just what I, personally, was up to. The strawberry beds finally were covered for the winter. I removed the bird netting and broke up a...
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Apples, Part 1
Earlier this year we used up the last of our pearsauce from 2012. It was an alternative I made when we were blessed with being able to pick pears for free, but had no apples. Applesauce is not...
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Because I Do NOT Have To Do It All – Produce Auctions
You can not do it all. Maybe that is not exactly accurate. Perhaps it should say that “Usually every gardener can not grow everything all the time”, or even “Most gardeners do not want to grow...
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