food preservation

It’s fall, and this year we are ditching the usual pumpkin craze and swimming in apples. This shift may be due to this year’s weak pumpkin harvest (and a freezer still full…

With all the towering plants (tomatoes and tomatillos) doing us proud in the raised beds, the groundcover below was quietly gaining steam. That includes: strawberries (white) , carrots, green onions, peppers,…

Sometimes the garden throws more at you than you can squirrel away at one time. While I am continuously picking and freezing kale (when we don’t eat it fresh) and we…

After a cool start to the summer, it has gotten hot here in Atlanta, though not has hot as what we experienced while vacationing in Florida last weekend. On top of…

The last time that my sister came to visit I got a frantic call from my mom wanting to know how many apples and pears I wanted. My parents were watching…

Ryan and I both have a sweet tooth, though, his is off the charts. There’s a whole big thing about his mom’s side of the family being sweet fiends… It’s a…

I told y’all we have been a couple of picklin’ fools. Nowadays, we peruse the produce aisles saying, “we should pickle that” or “wonder how that would be like pickled.” These…

We are switching things up a bit from our latest pickling posts. Last week, we made our first batch of tomato sauce. There is something about homemade tomato sauce, so pure…