Dehydrating pears is a simple and super delicious drying project. Dehydrating fruits intensifies the flavor and makes them portable, snackable, and easy to pack with you for day trips, camping, car snacks, long meetings, you get the idea. Dehydrated pears are sweet and chewy like pear candy and you’ll probably have to hide them from […]
Making and Canning Delicious Apricot Syrup
It’s apricot season here! I love apricots and one of my favorite canning products of apricot season is apricot syrup! This stuff is to die for. Tangy and sweet and perfect on french toast, pancakes, or German pancakes. And it’s easy to make and can in your own home! Ready to make some? Here’s what […]
How to Make and Can Apricot Nectar
It’s apricot season! If you have access to an apricot tree, you know they can produce plenty of the sweet tart little guys. Where we live, apricots are a luxury, only producing on years where there is a mild enough spring not to freeze all the blossoms. And this year is one of those! I’ll […]
Our Favorite Super Easy Banana Applesauce Bread Recipe
My kids love bananas. Until they don’t. And they never tell me when the banana consumption will spontaneously shut off, so occasionally, I’m left with a bunch of over ripe bananas. When there are 4-5 of them, we make this amazing super simple banana applesauce bread. It does help rotate some of your food storage […]
Canning Homemade Peach Peel and Pit Jelly
What do you do with your peels and pits when you’re canning peaches or using them for jam? Mine used to go straight out to the chickens, but I’ve found a new way to get one more delicious use out of them before passing them off to the birds. Peach Peel and Pit Jelly! To […]
Fabulous Home Canned Peach Raspberry Jam
Homemade jam is one of my favorite reasons for canning, and today I have a delicious jam that’s going to our “I Grew Thanksgiving” dinner with me since it’s made from raspberries and peaches I grew! If you don’t have access to your own fruit, you could get your peaches and raspberries from the grocery […]
Canning Quick Tip: Let the Canner Make the Syrup
When you’re canning fruit, most methods require that you mix up a light to heavy syrup to add to the jars of fruit prior to canning. This entails measuring sugar into water in a pot and heating it all up, hoping you didn’t make way too much or not enough, and dripping sugar-water everywhere while […]
Propagating Grapes Through Cuttings
If you have a grape plant and want more grape plants, it’s easy to grow your own. Or so says my extension agent, so we’re going to give it a try. I would have waited until I had results to show you, but thought I’d share the information now and results later in case you […]
Dehydrating Apples
If you’ve wanted to know how to dehydrate apples, here’s your tutorial. We love dehydrated apples around here. They’re a great snack and store really well if you can keep them hidden so that the little people don’t eat them all up the day after you dry them! To dehydrate apples, you’ll need a few […]
Fabulous Fruit Leather (Even if You Dry it Too Long)
Fruit leather is one of those dehydrating projects that may look a bit intimidating, but actually isn’t too hard to do. You’ll see. Even you can make fabulous fruit leather. Your kids will love it and it makes a great trail, camp, or lunchbox snack. So let’s get started, shall we? First you’ll need some […]
