Preserving Food

Sour cherries: Two Classic Preserves

You need to run, run I tell you! get to your closest farm, stand, market or u-pick and get yourself some sour cherries. Now!...

Honeyed cayenne chiles

I grew these! I don't know if i'll ever loose the wonder & excitement of growing my own food. I hope not! If i had...

Give-away: put ’em up!

...so it's been a busy week for me and i haven't had time to put much of anything up for later. But, i have...

Off my larder shelf: Put ‘em up! fruit

Here in the northeast, i like to think of this time of year as almost summer. because even if i’m wearing a scarf when going...

Berries!

The berries are coming, the berries are coming! There are so many types of berries, and so many preserving opportunities! For those of you in the...

Lemon Basil Nectarine Preserves

Whoa! It's been a whirlwind of a month! I've been busier than I've ever been. I won't go into details but if a picture...

Tigress’ larder on amazon & a birthday give-away!

It's my birthday, it's my birthday... well it was. yesterday. I started a tradition last year around here...a birthday give-away tradition! What better way to...

Canning 101

Here’s the post I am going to refer you back to again and again. These are the basic steps in hot water bath canning...

Can jam round-up August: Tomatoes

Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes! for many the king of vegetables (even though we all know it's a fruit don't we?) grown for putting up. Just as...

Buttermilk Ricotta

I bet you thought you heard the last of my year's supply of butter-making didn't you? yup, you thought i went through all that buttermilk...