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Category Archives: Preserving
Crispy Pepitas
Ever since I started eating crispy nuts – I can’t go back. Regular nuts just don’t have the flavor that crispy nuts have – oh, so yummy! Several years ago when living in Colorado, the health food store there had … Continue reading
Posted in Dehydrating, Preserving, Raw Food, Recipes, Snacks
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Pear And Apple Fruit Leather
We were all out of our Papple Jam, which meant it was time to make more! Two summers ago I made more jam than I knew what to do with and was giving it away and we still have a … Continue reading
I Am Seeing Green Everywhere, That’s Green Beans!
Green beans have been in abundance lately. The garden where I work has been turned into a CSA for the employees. Each week the Sanctuary Caretaker sends us out an email with what is available and make our selection. Green … Continue reading
Even More Tomatoes To Make Tomato Sauce
After putting up 37 jars of diced tomatoes we were on to tomato sauce. We figured that we would do a small batch of sauce as an immediate go to – after all these tomatoes we figured we weren’t going … Continue reading
Tomatoes, Tomatoes Everywhere – Canning Diced Tomatoes
My cousin and I decided to can tomatoes together this year – thought it would be better than doing my our lonesome. We decided on 3 flats – the kids could play and we could can and it would not … Continue reading
What To Do With All These Beets
Not having a garden this year we have been very fortunate to have so many farms and gardeners around us. I recently ordered a 20 pound box of beets and planned on storing at least half of it for the … Continue reading
Dilly Beans!
It is so much fun canning with other people! A friend came over with a whole lot of beans from her garden -so we decided to pickle them or another name for them is Dilly Beans. I have Dilly Beans … Continue reading
Pickled Beets
As I have said many times in my beet posts – we LOVE beets in our house. I have never been a big fan of pickled beets and I think is was more fear than dislike. While at a lunch, … Continue reading
Bread and Butter Pickles
Stella loves pickles – I mean she really LOVES them. She could easily eat a whole jar in one sitting! While she was away I decided I would try my hand at making some bread and butter pickles for her … Continue reading
Peanut, Peanut Butter..Jelly, Grape Jelly That Is!
Now that you have made your fresh grape juice – you are ready to make some grape jelly! We were so in the groove as we were making the grape jelly that I forgot to take many pictures – but … Continue reading
