This is one of those projects that was really so easy it shouldn’t deserve its own post, but here it is anyway. Dehydrating blueberries. First, get some blueberries. It really doesn’t matter how many, but the more the merrier. Wash them and pick out any that are squishy or bad. Now get a pot of […]
A Thought for All You Canners of Garden Produce
When I’m canning I usually have a good chuckle over a fond memory of a friend of ours who, after receiving some homemade jam from us said: “My mom used to can a lot when I was growing up. I never could understand why she did it during the hottest part of the summer though.” […]
Making Banana Chips by Dehydrating Bananas
Yeah, I’ve got the dehydrator going again. I came into a bunch of bananas that I knew my kids wouldn’t eat before they went all over-ripe and brown, so I thought I’d get ahead of the game and dehydrate some into banana chips. To dehydrate bananas, you want ripe bananas. They’re not as good if […]
Dehydrating Frozen Broccoli
Frozen vegetables are perfect for dehydrating. They’ve already been blanched prior to being frozen and you can usually just dump them out on your dehydrator tray frozen and start drying. Super easy. This weekend I dried some broccoli. Broccoli is kind of large and thick straight out of the bag, so I let it sit […]
Canning Plum Jam
Cooked jams are not too difficult and a little bit of fruit can actually make more jam than you might think. And one of the best parts about making jam is that you can make “variations on the theme” jams that you’ll never find in a store, like cherry-strawberry or plum-pineapple or peach-jalepeno (hubby’s personal […]
Getting Preparedness Gear on the Cheap
You all know I’m cheap. I do not like spending money and rarely buy anything new. In the wake of the free canning jar episode, I thought I’d let you all in on some other methods of finding canning supplies without paying an arm and a leg, then I thought, heck, I’ve gotten gear outside […]
Scored Some FREE Canning Jars
My UPS guy called yesterday morning and let me know that a friend of his was moving and had some canning jars they didn’t want to take with them and did I want any. Well, of course I do. So I loaded up some boxes for the loose jars, headed over to the moving house, […]
Fabulous Homemade Canned Salsa
I was going to write something fantabulous about Christmas or winter or something, but to be honest, my brain’s about done, so I’m pulling out the Salsa post I’ve been wanting to write. It’s kind of Christmasy because some people I love are getting some of my salsa as gifts this year. There you go. […]
Canning Tomatoes
Today we have another flashback to summer post. Canning tomatoes. I was going to do salsa, but the first steps of salsa are the same as canning tomatoes, so we really need to cover canning tomatoes first. Canning tomatoes starts with getting some tomatoes. Really not cost effective to buy your tomatoes at a grocery […]
Freezing and Dehydrating Corn: Choose Your Own Adventure
You know I could post this as two posts, but the only difference between freezing and dehydrating corn is the last step, so for simplicity I’m just doing one post with two possible endings. Kind of like the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books. You read those didn’t you? I really liked the original #8 if […]