Preserving Food

Gap This past few months we’ve talked about the trend of canning, witnessed the beginning of the canvolution and a rise in bloggers who, like...

Preserving Food

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...

Preserving Food

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...

Preserving Food

Some of you may remember my trip to Turkey last summer. I fell in love with the country, its people and their way of...

Preserving Food

My tomatoes might have been a little worse for wear after my 3 week absence, most of them took a suicide leap that ended...

Preserving Food

Can I just tell you? It’s 7:30am on a gorgeous Sunday morning in October and I've been up for a while… Believe it or not...

Preserving Food

Finally! Whew! I didn't think I would be gone this long. But on Labor Day weekend, I had a few friends over to a...

Preserving Food

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...

Preserving Food

The tomatoes! And while I'm on the subject of tomatoes...oh how I loved him (R.I.P). He was so beautiful, inside and out. Ahem. Ok, so...

Preserving Food

8 gallons of cream (plus 2 gallons of buttermilk) You may know that I drove to Vermont early this past Friday to pick up 8...