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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...]

Easy Slow Cooker Pumpkin Risotto Recipe

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Slow Cooker Easy Pumpkin Risotto This wicked easy Slow Cooker Pumpkin Risotto Recipe will take all the fear out of cooking risotto. Risotto, that yummy gourmet comfort food, has intimidated a lot of cooks, including me. After seeing an enraged, cursing Chef Gordon Ramsey throw a sauté pan full of risotto into the garbage while Hell’s Kitchen competitors look on with wide … [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 68 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 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 … [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...]

10 Fun Garden Decorations to Make your Landscape Amazing

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Unique and Fun Garden Decorations .........and Cheap! It's time to dress up the garden with some new decorations.  I am way behind with my gardening this year as this spring has been a really wet one.  We had snow still on the ground a month ago and now we are in full blown northern Maine Mud Season.  But I can't put the process off any longer so as soon as the rain stops … [Read more...]

Slow Cooker Curried Carrot Soup

by Sheryl Thompson 1 Comment

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Easy to grow! Tasty to eat! Slow Cooker Curried Carrot Soup reaps the harvest rewards... Carrots are a huge favorite vegetable in the Thompson family.  In fact, they are at the top of everyone's list so when we plant our garden in the spring they are always guaranteed a large section of the garden. With proper soil, they are quite easy to cultivate and they … [Read more...]

It’s Zucchini Time! 4 Great Zucchini Recipes!

by Sheryl Thompson 21 Comments

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Need some Easy, Tasty Zucchini Recipes for your Zucchini Overload? The zucchini harvest is in its earliest stage when the family is not ready to turn zucchini green at the sight of the world's most prolific squash. So it's time to dust off the zucchini recipes and get ready for the green squash glut that is to come.  Today I am revisiting some of my previous … [Read more...]

Garden Planning Begins

by Sheryl Thompson 7 Comments

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Starting to Plan the Garden & Free Ebook - "Farm to Table Through the Year"     It's that time of the year, after the hustle and bustle of the holidays, that those of us who love to garden turn our attention to Spring and the gardening season to come. As I look at my garden blanketed in in snow it seems hard to believe that in a few weeks I will be … [Read more...]

Slow Cooker Zucchini Italiano Casserole Recipe – A great Vegetable Side Dish

by Sheryl Thompson 46 Comments

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Zucchini Casserole Recipe -My Garden Overfloweth Zucchini have to be the most prolific vegetable on earth.  Once they start ripening in the garden the game is on! How do I get the family to eat all of them? You can't give them away as everyone who has a garden has an overflow too. Note to purveyors of seeds - You only need to put about 6 seeds in a packet! So what do I … [Read more...]

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