Canning & Kitchen
How to Cook Venison and Elk: A Healthy Indulgence
Toward the end of the year, deer and elk seasons open. Avid hunters trek into the wilderness in search of wild game.
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Holiday Cranberry Recipes
Here in Maine, leaves have aged to rich, deep shades of red and orange, the nights are chilly, and the days crisp–though often gloriously sunny at the same time.
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Sourdough From Scratch
Baking Bread has to be one of my favorite things to do (and eat), and while I love all types of bread, sourdough is my absolute number one! Why?
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Finding the Best Pumpkins for Pies
What are the best pumpkins for pies? Well… it’s not even a pumpkin… depending on your definition of “pumpkin.”
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Fun and Flavorful Garlic Scapes Recipes
Garlic scapes are the long, green flowering tops of garlic that have been planted in the ground. The first in my list of favorite garlic scapes recipes was pretty simple: cutting up fresh garlic scapes on homemade pizza.
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Make Garlic Powder by Dehydrating Garlic
There is no need to let garlic go to waste once it begins to show signs of aging. Learn how to make garlic powder by dehydrating garlic cloves.
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Preserving Sweet Corn
Whether you’ve grown it yourself or found a wonderful deal at your local farmers market, fresh sweet corn is an absolute delight! This is a guide to preserving sweet corn.
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Preserving Peaches for Easy, Delicious Desserts
50 pounds of peaches is a decent amount of fruit to preserve, but we managed it. So how do you go about preserving all those peaches?
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Making Fruit-Scrap Vinegar
Don’t toss your fruit scraps, use them to make vinegar. My excursion into fruit vinegar came after canning peaches, pears, and apples. I looked at the scraps and decided to play with the garbage.
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Old-Fashioned Potato Pie
This old-fashioned potato pie is a creamy and delicious way to use up some homegrown potatoes.
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Pressure Canning Kale and Other Greens
Pressure canning kale and other greens leave your freezer space available for other things that aren’t as well-suited for canning. If you’re like me, you fill up your garden beds to maximum capacity and then have trouble keeping up with all of the summer bounties!
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What You Can, and Can’t, Can
Just about anything you would grow in your garden may be preserved by canning. Only a few foods cannot be safely canned at all, some may be canned in one form but not another, and still others don’t hold up well under the prolonged heat of processing.
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An Easier Way of Making Tomato Sauce From Scratch
Add to Favorites You’ve mastered how to care for tomato plants. Now you want a tomato canning recipe, or just an easier way of making tomato sauce from scratch. Would …
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Food Preservation Methods for an Abundant Tomato Harvest
Add to Favorites As an herbalist, I’m always thinking of ways to use the abundance of herbs this time of year. Couple that with a huge tomato harvest and it’s …
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Fermenting Sauerkraut at Home
Sauerkraut translates literally to “sour cabbage.” Fermenting sauerkraut has been happening for hundreds of years. While we typically think of Germany as the kraut-eating capitol, France actually surpasses Germany in the average consumption of sauerkraut, but don’t tell anybody that I told you that.
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