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Make Your Own Ketchup

I don’t know about you, but in this house, ketchup is where it’s at. Someone has to have it at every meal, and the quality at the store has gone downhill to the point that it’s just brightly colored sweet goo and not the tomatoey 

Plan Your Canning Garden

Plan Your Canning Garden

Plan a canning garden by listing all the things you want to preserve and how much you can grow yourself. Free Printable

Check Your Pantry Day

Check Your Pantry Day

Keeping your pantry organized is just as important as knowing what to put in it. Take a few minutes to look over your food stores, no matter how small.

Smoked Mackerel

Smoked Mackerel

The mackerel are running in Eastport, and the family brought home a cooler full! We have an old  recipe given to my husband from a family friend who brought it from Ireland. It is the perfect “holiday treat” during the long winter months. The fillets 

New Pressure Canning Book On The Way

New Pressure Canning Book On The Way

If you have been reading for a while, you know that I love food preservation just as much as I love to cook. There is something about shopping in my own pantry and freezer that makes me slightly giddy with joy.  Over the years, I 

Foods In A Jar

I have a burning desire to always put food up. No matter if it is canning, freezing, dehydrating, or simply layering into canning jars for the pantry, it is one of the foremost things I worry/think about, when I have time to muse. I have 

Farmhouse Pickled Eggs

Farmhouse Pickled Eggs

Since I am not canning up a storm, it still doesn’t mean that I don’t have the canning itch. Without the produce, what is a farming wife to do?  Can everything else!  Have you ever pickled eggs? They are so tasty, and even the kids 

Pantry Gardening

Pantry Gardening

Plan this year’s garden by looking at what you used from last year.

The Family That Gardens Together

DH has gone up on the hill with some of the boys, to clean up so he can mow around that fence. I have a minute to post, while we wait for some workers to head back down to work in the garden. It is 

The Farming Wife Plays With Jars

Our garden overfloweth. I love this time of year; feeling slightly overwhelmed each time I go out and harvest what is ready to go from the garden. Too much for one meal, I have to stop the world and get things processed. For instance, last