Fiddlehead Pickles are delicious and easy to make!Fiddlehead pickles are yummy and worth the effort. You process them using the water bath canning method. Water bath canning is not difficult and is a great way to preserve food when it is in season and abundant. For me the canning season starts in the spring and carries on throughout the summer and right into fall when I … [Read more...]
Chunky Pumpkin Chutney …say that 3 times fast!
Chunky Pumpkin Chutney .....great way to use up pumpkins from the patch! Chunky Pumpkin Chutney ... say that 3 times fast! It's a great fall condiment and the perfect way to use up any fresh pumpkin flesh you have like from making a Jack-O-Lantern. If you don't know what a chutney is here's the scoop (no pun intended).What the heck is a Chunky Pumpkin … [Read more...]
You can’t beat Pickled Beets…another day of canning!
Best Pickled Beets Recipe for your garden harvest! Today I have all my water bath canning equipment out ready to can some pickled beets. This week we can start harvesting our beets. We are guilty of sneaking a few smaller ones the last few weeks and boiling them with the greens still attached. Cooked this easy way and just served with butter, salt, and pepper on them, beets … [Read more...]
Gardening Glut – Canning Dilly Beans- Water Bath Canning 101
Canning Green Beans to make Dilly Beans - A Water Bath Canning Tutorial Water Bath Canning isn't difficult and making this Dilly Bean Recipe is great way to use up all those green beans from the garden and learn the skill of water bath canning. This time of year it’s a race to use up the veggies that my “bursting at the seams” garden produces. There’s a limit to how much the … [Read more...]
Sister Jo’s Zucchini Relish- a recipe to use large zucchini
When life hands you monster zucchini, make zucchini relish! Thank God for this zucchini relish recipe. It's that time of the year when the garden is bursting with zucchini, and the family is so sick of eating it that they turn zucchini green when they hear the word. Then you discover the monster zucchinis that are the size of a baseball bat hidden under the leaves in your … [Read more...]
Rhubarb Recipes and Growing Rhubarb in your Garden
Rhubarb Recipes and How to Garden Rhubarb It's time to dig out my rhubarb recipes. Spring is here. The snow is almost all gone with just a bit of the icy white stuff lingering around the edge of the fields. I spent yesterday cleaning out around the perennial plants and adding a new layer of compost to my rhubarb plants. They are looking great again this year and I will start … [Read more...]
The Last Days of Canning – Bread & Butter Zucchini Pickles
This weekend we had our first snow of the season. During the night Saturday, it started snowing and although it melted during the day Sunday, it was a "wake up call" Sunday morning, with all the snow covered trees, that winter isn't that far off here in the North Maine Woods. Thank goodness I finished cleaning out the garden beds and essentially putting the garden … [Read more...]