When there is a great deal on cherries at the local grocery store, I buy a flat. Sometimes, if we are on a road trip, I can find a good deal. For canning cherries, water bath preserving is used. It makes for a pretty easy job. Want to about canning cherries at home? Read on! We like to use sweet cherries for our canning. Some people prefer Morello cherries, which are somewhat sour. I have not … [Read more...]
How to Make Pickled Garlic Scapes
In this second installment on Growing Garlic, I'm going to share a fantastic Pickled Garlic Scapes recipe. In the first post, I gave an overview about the process involved with growing Garlic. Garlic is one of the easiest garden vegetables to grow! Here in the Cariboo, the Garlic Scapes come on hot and heavy in early July. Since we have almost 300 garlic plants in the garden, we basically … [Read more...]
Canning Salmon at Home
This weekend, we canned most of the Salmon we had in the freezer, leaving only 4 bags with filleted fish to eat with meals. Canning Salmon is not hard - you definitely need to use a Pressure Canner. Here's how we can Salmon and enjoy eating it all year around. How to Can Salmon We thawed the frozen fish overnight and then rinsed each piece well. Graham then used his fillet knife to cut … [Read more...]
Canning Asian Pears using Tattler Seals and Lids
Once when I was in the grocery store, they were having an awesome sale on Asian Pears. So good of a sale, I just couldn't pass them up. I had never even heard of Asian Pears, but I knew Graham likes pears so thought I would pick some up and can them so we can use them over Winter. Asian Pears are a cross between an apple and a pear. They have the shape of a … [Read more...]
How to Make Homemade Tomato Sauce
Here in the Cariboo, it is almost impossible to grow tomatoes outside. It cools down too much at night here for them, and the afternoons can be cookin' hot - 35C is the norm here. But we love tomato sauce and use it a lot in cooking. There is no way I have enough room in our greenhouse to grow the amount I need to make large batches of sauce. I do plant enough tomato plants so we could have … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Preserve and Store Food
Whether you grow your own vegetables or take advantage of farmers markets, you need a way to preserve and store that food for several months. Here's 4 ways to preserve and store food. Stocking up in September & October when the harvest is plentiful is a great way to do it. Prices are lower and there are a lot of choice veggies available. Below, I've linked up some of our best posts on … [Read more...]
The Prepper’s Canning Guide – Book Review
Daisy Luther has written four books and her latest is The Prepper's Canning Guide. I just finished reading it and was happy to find some delicious recipes for all kinds of canned items. Prepper's Canning Guide - Book Review However, it isn't just a compilation of recipes - Daisy covers the procedures of canning (both water bath canning and pressure canning) as well … [Read more...]
How to Make and Preserve Pickled Beets
Beets grow great in a northern garden. Most root crops do - if you are new to gardening, planting a lot of root crops will mean you have lots of potatoes, onions, beets and turnips. They aren't hard to grow and you can get a lot of food tucked away in your cold room for eating all year round. Beets can be planted in early spring and then thinned as they are growing. I like to seed heavily and … [Read more...]
Using a Pressure Canner
I've been using a pressure canner for years. Although some foods can be safely canned in a water bath canner, other foods NEED to be canned using a pressure canner. Food safety is so important to me and it should be important to you too. I never want to open a jar of home canned food and wonder if it is good to eat. Sometimes you can see signs of spoilage, … [Read more...]
