Recent Posts Tagged With 'canning'

• Skinks in the Sink, Chokecherries, Firewood, Vegetable Soup, Storytelling, Music and Songs

  Posted on Monday September 7th, 2009 at 12:25 in family, friends, wildlife, weekend, wild foods, labor day, canning, preserving food

  This Labor Day was different from the past two--in the past we made cider over this holiday, but this year the apple blossom frosted in early spring so there are few apples available. That means no cider, unfortunately. We found other things to get i...

• Grapes and Elderberries and Jelly, Oh My!

  Posted on Monday August 24th, 2009 at 20:54 in homesteading, homestead, wild foods, canning, making jam, elderberries, preserving food

  Daughter-in-law Jaime and her two children came to visit this weekend with a goal: learn to make jelly. The grapes were picked and in the cellar, waiting for her. The elderberries hung on the bushes, waiting for her. The kitchen was ready. She broug...

• A Peck or Two of Unpickled Peppers

  Posted on Friday August 21st, 2009 at 21:17 in peppers, canning, preserving food

  Guess what' I'll be doing tomorrow? Cutting up and packing for the freezer, and stringing up the chili peppers to dry, if you didn't guess already. Along with making some grape jelly with my daughter-in-law and maybe elderberry too. And finally getti...

• Corn and Squash and Garden Talk

  Posted on Wednesday July 29th, 2009 at 20:36 in garden, gardening, self-sufficient, freezing, country living, canning, preserving food

  Menus this week:Corn, tomatoes, cucumbers.Corn, tomatoes, squash, chicken.Corn, tomatoes, squash.Corn.Tomato sandwiches.Corn, steak, squash, salad.Do you see a theme here?Larry's corn patch--some of the stalks of sweet corn are around ten feet tall. ...

• Crisp Dill Pickles--With Salmon

  Posted on Sunday July 26th, 2009 at 19:02 in recipes, pickles, canning, preserving food

  For 35 years I have tried every recipe I have found to make CRISP dill pickles. I have failed, time and again. I finally gave up and decided that while I could make killer bread-and-butter pickles, and even sweet alum pickles, dills were out of my re...

• Easy Way to Freeze Corn

  Posted on Wednesday July 22nd, 2009 at 06:16 in self-sufficient, appalachian culture, country living, canning, preserving food

  So the guy who tells me about this is young and single. Why did I believe him? Because I had a bushel of Early Sunglow corn to deal with and no time to do anything fancy like cutting it off the cob and blanching, etc."It's the easiest thing ever," h...

• July

  Posted on Tuesday July 21st, 2009 at 08:21 in poetry, appalachian culture, sunset, canning, preserving food, photo poems

  July spills a surfeit of vegetables onto my kitchen floor--fire red tomatoes, golden squash,green cucumbers and royal purple beanstumble from white enamel washpans and broken oak baskets.They glow like rampant jewels retrieved from long-lost treasure...

• Beans, Beans and More Beans

  Posted on Wednesday July 1st, 2009 at 20:23 in self-sufficiency, beans, canning, preserving food

  Remember how excited I was with these?The first batch of beans always provides a nice glow that Yes! we did it right and we have these beans to show for our efforts. There is a little self-satisfaction, knowing that at least for 7 dinners we will hav...

• Making Sauerkraut

  Posted on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at 07:54 in recipes, self-sufficiency, canning, preserving food

  Every year I grow too much cabbage. It's a throwback to when I had many boys at home and used to make a lot of sauerkraut. Now there are only two of us, yet I still plant a dozen cabbages.This year I decided to make kraut again, using the simple meth...

• Beans!

  Posted on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 19:17 in garden, gardening, canning, preserving food

  Larry picked the first of our "green" beans on my birthday and we had one of our favorite things for dinner: green beans and new potatoes. These beans are called Royal Burgundy and they are my favorite bush bean. They are hardy, attract fewer bugs, a...