If you love salsa, but don't have all the ingredients needed to make it from all fresh, you will love this recipe! It tastes great, has a lot less prep time, and comes together in a snap! Here's how to make and can the easiest salsa ever! Part of the goodness of having a tomato harvest is that you can make so many different products out of them. With your ripe tomatoes, ...
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How to Make and Can Cherry BBQ Sauce
When you think of cherries, maybe what comes to mind is eating them fresh, in a pie, or even as a jam. All of those are wonderful, but once you discover cherry bbq sauce, you will never forget it! Cherry BBQ Sauce to the Rescue Last year, Todd and I tried peach bbq sauce and fell in love. The marriage of fruity sweetness with the smoky and spicy herbs tasted perfect, ...
How to Make and Can Delicious Peach BBQ Sauce
Whether you are purchasing peaches from the store or using your peach harvest, you may not have thought of making something savory with them. After you've made your jam, fruit leather, and wine, make sure to save a few lbs to make peach bbq sauce! Barbecue is some of the best food on earth, thank God it's so easy to do! Todd and I ran across this recipe when we were trying ...
Make This Easy Fruit Leather Recipe with Any Fruit!
If you have your own fruit trees or partake in loss leader deals at the store, you may find yourself with lots of extra fruit on hand during the summer. Rather than letting your overripe fruit go into the compost pile, why not take advantage of the sweetness of fruit at this stage and try this fruit leather recipe? It's nature's candy! So you've made your strawberry jam, ...
How to Make Homemade Strawberry Jam {Safe and Easy}
It's strawberry season and the fruit is fresh, sweet, and delicious! Making wine, syrup or just eaten raw, they are a wonderful summer treat! But don't forget to bring summer to the table with homemade strawberry jam--fill your shelves for the year! Homemade Strawberry Jam is Super Easy Making jam is a great place to start if you are new to canning. It's quick and ...
How to Have an Awesome Pomegranate Season
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How to Make THE Best Strawberry Syrup {from the Tops}
I'll bet you are thinking, "What the heck kind of homemade strawberry syrup can she be making here?" But stick with me, I know you will adore this recipe. It's cheap, easy, delicious, needs no cooking, and it's made from cast-off strawberry tops that would normally go into the trash or compost heap! Sound good? Heck yeah! If you've been reading my blog for a while, you ...
How to Make a Summer Face Cover + Sewing Pattern
With coronavirus on the rise in our country and some states mandating face coverings, sewing this summer face covering will allow you to protect others, be protected (to a certain degree), and wear a mask this summer with all your own style. This post includes the pattern so you can make masks for yourself, your family, or to sell in your shop. Way back in April, I joined ...
How to Make the Best Fermented Garlic Dill Pickles
Making pickles from scratch sounds like a hard thing to do, doesn't it? Wrong! Fermenting is one of the easiest of all food preservation techniques. The summer flavor of these fermented garlic dill pickles recipe will blow your mind--and, they are ready inside a week! Dill pickles have been a favorite of mine ever since I was a little girl. I could eat a whole jar of Del ...
How to Make the Best Salsa {Recipe for Water Bath Canning}
Summer is a fantastic time for not only eating delicious salsa made from your huge tomato harvest, but for canning salsa too! This is the best salsa recipe for canning, and is wonderful to make for your shelf every year. It has been tested and found to be safe when you follow the given instructions, so you don't have to worry that you'll kill your family if you can some ...
How to Successfully Homeschool in Your State
In the wake of all that’s happened with the coronavirus over the past months, parents have found themselves forced to homeschool their children, much to their dismay and nervousness. I’ve had a few people message me asking what they should be doing for their children, so I thought I’d share some tips on how to homeschool in your state. In this post I’ll be sharing ...
More Awesome Tips for a No Waste Produce Harvest
Gardening is a lot of work, and throwing some of the harvest even into the compost pile can feel like a waste! Learning the ways we can use all of the harvest can help us put more food on the shelf, feel good about our food production, and get one step closer to a no waste kitchen. Love finding ways to use up every bit of what you harvest from the garden you work so hard ...