It’s garden time again!  I just love this time of year – even though it keeps me VERY busy.  I feel so productive caring for, harvesting and putting away things from the garden.  Two of the first crops to fill our home this summer have been zucchini and onions. I haven’t had much experience putting [...]

Remember the black walnuts we collected to harvest and freeze?  Yeah, well, let’s just say it turned out a bit like the applesauce experience.  What you see below is less that one cup of walnuts, which took at least 45 minutes of my hard labor. I got lots of great advice on doing applesauce the [...]

I suppose this is what I get for going back on a promise to myself.  After canning well over 200 quarts of veggies and freezing over 30 gallon bags of fruits and veggies, I decided I was done.  Finished.  No More.  I made a promise to myself and let everyone in the house know that I [...]

The green and orange peppers are finally coming on the garden.  Freezing them is such a snap that I can have a whole bucket done in about 15 minutes.  Wash, cut off the tops, take the seeds out, slice, parboil for three minutes, place in ice water, dry and freeze in ziptop bags.  It’s that easy! We [...]

A sinkful of fresh tomatoes in our house turns into about eleven quarts of diced tomatoes! And here’s a new recipe I concocted to use up the canned tomatoes.  I had a quart that didn’t seal, plus some corn and peppers that needed to be used.  I didn’t have any ground beef, but I did have [...]