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The Wilderness Wife

Best Easy Recipes and Crafts for the Busy Mom


Cider Vinegar Pickled Beets

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Sliced beets on a cutting boardready to be used in our Best Pickled Beet Recipe

A Tale of Two Beets - A Pickled Beet AlternativeThis pickled beet recipe is a little different than the usual. Traditional pickled beet recipes usually are all about cinnamon, cloves, and sugar but this one has a more savory twist.Safety first when canning your Pickles BeetsAs with all water bath canning recipes, cleanliness and detail to directions is … [Read more...]

Best Homemade Blueberry Jam Recipe

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Blueberry Jam is on my mind. I love preserving whatever produce is in season and abundant whether it is from my garden or the farmers market. The more news reports I hear about food recalls like the lettuce scare pf last year, the more I like to grow my own food or buy from local farmers. Here in northern Maine we have a couple of good sized Amish communities so finding … [Read more...]

Best Blackberry Jam Recipe

by Sheryl Thompson 4 Comments

How to Make Delicious Blackberry Jam - going old school!I found this recipe for Blackberry Jam years ago in an old Maine cookbook called "Good Maine Food". It was book published in 1949 and it has a lot of good old fashioned recipes in it. This Blackberry Jam Recipe didn't call for any pectin so I was a little nervous the first time I used it as I had become a … [Read more...]

Sister Jo’s Zucchini Relish- a recipe to use large zucchini

by Sheryl Thompson 57 Comments

This tasty zucchini relish recipe is my favorite condiment and helps me use up all those huge zucchini from the garden.

Zucchini relish is the perfect canning recipe to use up Monster Zucchini!This recipe for Zucchini Relish is the perfect way to use up extra zucchini. Zucchini are without a doubt the most prolific vegetable in the garden. Think about it!  The vegetable everybody wants to give you from their garden is ZUCCHINI SQUASH.  And they almost never give you the nice small … [Read more...]

Bread & Butter Fiddlehead Pickles

by Sheryl Thompson 2 Comments

Fiddleheads just harvested

Fiddlehead Pickles are delicious and easy to make!Fiddlehead pickles are yummy and worth the effort. You process fiddlehead pickles 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 … [Read more...]

Chunky Pumpkin Chutney …say that 3 times fast!

by Sheryl Thompson 44 Comments

Pumpkin Chutney being served as the condiment with a plate of fall roasted vegetables for a perfect vegan meal

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!

by Sheryl Thompson 38 Comments

Beets fresh from the garden resting on a cutting board and jars of canned pickled beets in back of a glass dish full of sliced pickled beets.

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 … [Read more...]

Canning Dilly Beans- Water Bath Canning 101

by Sheryl Thompson 66 Comments

Jar of canned Dilly Beans made in our Dilly Bean water bath canning tutorial using our easy Dilly Bean recipe.

Canning Green Beans to make Dilly Beans - A Water Bath Canning TutorialWater 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 … [Read more...]

Rhubarb Recipes and Growing Rhubarb in your Garden

by Sheryl Thompson 52 Comments

Rhubarb recipes including jam, rhubarb bread, rhubarb cobbler, and strawberry rhubarb pie

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 … [Read more...]

The Last Days of Canning – Bread & Butter Zucchini Pickles

by Sheryl Thompson 23 Comments

Zucchini pickles recipe

 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 … [Read more...]

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