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Home Food Preservation – 10 Ways to Preserve Food at Home

April 11, 2019 By Laurie Neverman 51 Comments

There's never better a better time to learn how to safely preserve food at home. Home food preservation helps you stock up and save money, whether you're growing your own food or buying in bulk. It adds variety to meals, and the flavor of home preserved foods can knock the socks off of most commercial offerings. You control what's in your food.

This post will give you an overview of different home food preservation methods, so you can decide which options work best for you. [Read more…] about Home Food Preservation – 10 Ways to Preserve Food at Home

Pickled Beets Recipe – Just Like Grandma Used to Make

October 19, 2018 By Laurie Neverman 10 Comments

My eldest son and I are fans of pickled beets (and almost anything else pickled), so each year we turn some of our garden bounty into beet pickles. These make a great side dish (vinegar is good for digestion and helps fight acid reflux). If we have a good stockpile, sometimes we thinly slice some of the pickled beets and run them through the freeze dryer. The freeze dried beet chips make an interesting snack food. (And yes, these are gluten free, for anyone who is watching out for gluten.)

Green Tomato Pickles – Easy Pickled Green Tomato Recipe for Canning

September 21, 2018 By Laurie Neverman 14 Comments

I made up a batch of these pickled green tomatoes to use up some of the unripe tomatoes knocked off the vines during our recent hail storm. We picked all the storm damaged fruit, and trimmed off the spoiled bits, saving the undamaged parts for preserving. I found a number of green tomato recipes, but pickled green tomatoes seemed most likely to appeal to my family. (The crew groaned out loud at the green tomato mincemeat recipe.) We like dill pickles, so why not dilly green tomato pickles?

9 Ways to Preserve Pears, Plus Tips to Prevent Browning

August 29, 2018 By Laurie Neverman 14 Comments

Our neighbors have a beautiful pear tree that's over 50 years old, and each year they invite us to share in the harvest. Big tree = many, many pears, so over the years I've used many different ways to preserve pears. No matter how you store them – canning, freezing, drying, freeze drying or fermenting – their high sugar content makes them a naturally decadent dessert. In this post I'll cover both short term and long term storage options for pears, plus tips to prevent browning.

How to Make Apple Jelly With Just Two Ingredients

August 21, 2018 By Laurie Neverman 78 Comments

Learn how to make apple jelly with no added pectin and your choice of sweetener – sugar or honey – to enjoy for fresh eating or canning with this easy recipe. The natural pectin in apples prompted the authors of Stocking Up III to call apple jelly “the simplest of jellies” because it is made with only apples and sweetener. Make a little jelly or a lot – you can use the sweetener guidelines to adjust for the amount of apple juice you have available. You can also make a spiced apple jelly by adding spices during cooking.