Some of you may know that I am extremely passionate about food preservation. I love to explore the science behind food and food safety. I also adhere to safe canning practices because it is important to me that my family has access to tasty, healthy canned foods. I experiment with recipes daily, but when it comes to making foods safe to sit on a shelf? I follow the science. Botulism is no joke.
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 a canning garden by listing all the things you want to preserve and how much you can grow yourself. Free Printable
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
