Gardening, Food From Scratch and All Things Homemade
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Jalapeños grow slowly along all summer, but really shine in the later summer into fall. You may end up with a windfall of fresh jalapeño peppers right as your garden gets its first freeze. Here’s a bunch of my favorite ways of preserving jalapeños. Canning Jalapeños There are a few ways of safely canning Jalapeños. Basically you can water bath process jalapeños in an acidified form. Classic…
If you’ve had a great year growing peppers in the garden, or just found a great deal on jalapeños at the farmers’ market or supermarket you need a surefire recipe for preserving jalapeños for the long term so they don’t go bad sitting in your fridge. If you’ve eaten enough fresh in recipes like our jalapeño chicken with plum chutney recipe you may want to try canning jalapeños. Canning Jalapeño…
I harvested a bumper crop of jalapeños and I have a lot of things I want to make with jalapeños, but the first thing on my list is always this jalapeño chicken recipe with plum chutney. Jalapeños and plums are both delicious late-summer seasonal produce and I love that this recipe combines them both. These plums are store-bought, but one of these years my plum trees will produce some plums and I…
Our friend had an abundance of apples to share from her trees, and she invited us over to pick our fill. We still have quite a bit of apple sauce canned from last fall so I wanted to do something different. I remembered that we hardly made any apple butter last fall (We skipped our annual apple butter festival) so that is the inspiration we needed to make this simple apple recipe. Apple butter is…
I was looking for a main dish green bean recipe to use a lot of home grown green beans. We wanted to do more than have a side serving of buttered green beans with the rest of our meal. The green beans are doing amazingly this year and we’ve been picking basketful after basketful. Dice half a medium onion. Heat fat or oil in the bottom of a medium-sized pan (that has a lid) over medium heat. Sauté…
Mulberries are a surprise luxury that many people overlook. Don’t be too distracted with the birds making a mess of the mulberries in your yard to realize that they are a wonderful resource for jams and delicious baked goods like these mulberry crumble bars. When mulberries are ripe they will fall easily into your hand as you grab them. Many people harvest mulberries by laying a sheet out on the…
I love fun drinks. When I heard of bubble tea, or boba tea I was definitely intrigued. But I don’t drink tea made from tea leaves, so I knew I would have to make a homemade version if I wanted to try it. I’m using chai spiced milk in place of the milk tea. Essentially I use all the spices in chai infused in milk, but I don’t add any tea leaves or tea powder. This chai spiced milk is also awesome…
Fall has arrived in our neck of the woods. So we love to make our favorite fall cookies. I love pumpkin spice as much as the next girl. But molasses is another fall flavor that is great to really lean into this time of year. These molasses cookies have crisp edges, but are nice and chewy on the inside. The creamy molasses buttercream frosting is a great addition to take these cookies to the next…
You may have never heard of perennial garlic before. Perennial garlic is actually just hard neck garlic treated differently and harvested more minimally over the course of a year than traditionally planted garlic. Before I really started growing it I start I always assumed that hard neck garlic would be best for storing because I figured it would be sturdy to hold up to storage. But in reality is…
My garden grows wonderful, delicious, life-sustaining food for 165 days out of the year. But what do I do about those other 200 days of the year? How do I provide food for my family during that time? This year we set out to grow some easy to store survival crops that will feed our family through the winter– even without needing canning or refrigeration. A lot of easy to store survival crops fall…
