If you ask my kids, they'll tell you that our homemade elderberry jelly is their all time favorite jelly! Not only is elderberry jelly sweet and delicious, but it is good for us too. It is chock full of all natural Vitamin C which is vital for keeping our family healthy throughout the year- and especially during cold and flu season! Every year I make a big batch of elderberry … [Read more...]
How to make sauerkraut
My German husband loves his 'kraut so every year we ferment big batches of homemade sauerkraut. Sauerkraut is the first fermented food I ever made eight years ago and in my opinion one of the easiest ferments to make. I like to think of sauerkraut as the "gateway ferment" that gets people started with fermenting and leads them to experiment with more homemade fermented … [Read more...]
How to preserve and freeze cauliflower
Cauliflower is another vegetable I grew up preserving and freezing with my mom and great grandmother. We recently were gifted a big box of seconds cauliflower from our friends' farm down the road. We couldn't eat all the cauliflower fresh before it went bad so we decided to preserve it to eat year round. There are several recipes our family loves that use cauliflower so we … [Read more...]
How to Make and Freeze Pesto
A few years ago a friend gifted me a huge bag of fresh basil leaves from her farm so I quickly figured out how to make a large batch of pesto to freeze and preserve to use throughout the year. Basil is a soft leaf plant that can go from bad to good in a short amount of time so figuring out how to use it and preserve it is key to making sure it doesn't end up in the compost or … [Read more...]
How to preserve and freeze peaches
Peaches are my favorite fruit so any chance I can get to preserve and freeze some in the summer I do! Since we live in such a cold climate, peaches do not grow well here. I found a local farmer who brings cases of pesticide free peaches over from Washington and sells them at a good bulk price. They are so delicious and juicy! Preserving them by freezing is super easy and all we … [Read more...]
How to Preserve and Freeze Tomatoes
I learned how to preserve tomatoes as a little girl helping my mom, grandmother and great grandmother in the kitchen every summer. Freezing and preserving tomatoes are so easy that it is one of the staples of my food preserving that I do every year no matter what size garden we have or how busy we are. This week my friend with a farm down the road gifted us three huge flats of … [Read more...]