Spicy pickled green beans are a recipe that bring back memories of growing up on the farm, like pickled beets. Vinegar pickles of all different types were common on the table, from the jewel red beets to the slippery pickled mushrooms. These pickled green beans with garlic and cayenne pepper are crunchy and spicy, and let you can green beans without a pressure canner.
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Freezing Fresh Green Beans With or Without Blanching, Step by Step Instructions
Freezing fresh green beans is a quick and easy way to preserve them for later use. We’ll walk you through how to freeze green beans, step by step, with or without blanching. Whether you’re freezing pole beans, bush beans, yellow beans or other snap beans, the method is the same. You need about 1-1/2- to 2-1/2 pounds of green beans per quart of frozen beans.
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Transform Your Landscape with Vertical Gardening – Grow More Food in Less Space
Often when people start talking about integrating a garden or other food crops into the landscape, the design ideas still tend to focus on two dimensional diagrams. How many fruit or veggie plants can I fit per square foot? While there’s nothing wrong with this per se, it means you’re missing out on some great opportunities to optimize growing space you might not even realize that you have.
Homemade Baked Beans Slow Cooked with Bacon and Molasses
My youngest loves homemade baked beans and cornbread, possibly even more than he loves sloppy Joes. He’ll eat them for three meals a day if I let him. I like this recipe because of the earthy molasses, bacon (can’t go wrong with bacon) onions and garlic (don’t skimp on the onions, and use fresh garlic if you can). It’s a simple recipe but really tasty….
How to Can Green Beans – Step by Step Instructions for Canning Green Beans
Home canned green beans are one of the boys’ favorite veggies, so I try to process about thirty quarts each season. Our last round of “green” beans actually started out mostly as Purple Podded Pole Beans (which turned green when canned or cooked), but our main crop most years is Emerite pole beans. I prefer pole beans because there is less bending and they produce over a longer season. Here’s our system for cleaning and processing home canned green beans.
