Whether it’s on warm toast with butter, smothered over a stack of homemade pancakes or by the spoonful, nothing quite beats the taste of homemade Blueberry Jam! There’s just something about moving through the process of making it yourself that makes the old store-bought, machine made version pale in comparison. Can you imagine this Blueberry […]
Chipotle Strawberry Jam Recipe and Canning Instructions
Love homemade strawberry jam but tired of the same old recipe? Get ready to spice things up with this fabulous Chipotle Strawberry Jam recipe! Not too sweet and just the right amount of Chipotle spice, this one will become a new favorite, especially among the older residents in your home or with your circle […]
Homemade Apple Butter Recipe for Delicious Goodness!
Our apple trees really outdone themselves this year with the apple production and what better way to use them up than canning up some Homemade Apple Butter? At our house, we love love love Homemade Apple Butter! I remember growing up, Apple Butter was my brother’s favorite food! He was so young back then, but […]
How to Make and Can Cajun Dill Pickles
Pickles are one of my favorite things! I love all kinds of pickles from Bread & Butter to Dill to Sweet and I can eat them straight out of the jar! I think my very favorite has to be the spicy ones! If y’all have been reading the blog long, you know I have a […]
44 Ways of Preserving Vegetables and Fruits
Now that gardening season is in full swing, we will all be busy canning, freezing and dehydrating our bounty! Of course we will be enjoying fresh veggies and fruit along the way, but by preserving the over abundance, we will be able to have them during the winter months too! You’ll soon discover there’s nothing […]
Best Vegetables to Grow for Canning
Being able to grow your own vegetables which you can then can and store in the pantry for the winter is one of the most rewarding parts of gardening. Growing vegetables is the best way to enjoy fresh produce whenever you want, picking it right out of the garden and serving it up on the […]
Canning Pumpkin
Save your Pumpkins by Canning Them! Fall is in full swing, Halloween is now over and now you still have pumpkins. If you are anything like me you want to be as frugal as possible so you save the seeds, the “fruit” if you will and then you think, wow, that’s a lot of pumpkin. […]
Vegetable Canning 101
This time of the year I always have a lot of extra vegetables from the garden. But I don’t want them to go to waste so I’ve turned to home canning as a way to help preserve them and cut down on our out of pocket expenses at the same time. Vegetable canning is easy […]
Fruit Canning 101
In years past, fruit canning used to be done all of the time. Now that we are looking into ways to be more frugal, we are going back to things we used to do in the past. Canning fruits is a huge money saver! On top of that, you have fresh fruits and you know […]
