Food Preservation

After a whirlwind week of sauce-making and canning, I have myself a sizable heap of tomato skins. Related Reading: How To Easily Peel A Whole Load Of Tomato Skins Normally, …

Garden for long enough and you’ll eventually find yourself surrounded by so much fresh produce that you couldn’t possibly eat it all quickly enough. As far as problems go, it’s …

Groceries are expensive. Anymore, I find myself spending $50 to “pick up a few” things when it used to cost around $20. Curbing my food waste is more important than …

If one of your goals in life is to enjoy peaches all year long, in your muesli or on your peanut butter and peach jam sandwich, then keep reading. Close …

Berry season is here! And if blueberries are your jam (See what I did there?), you probably enjoy tossing them on your morning yogurt, into a smoothie or directly in …

Mouthwateringly ripe cherries of the red or black kind hang but once a year on the most beloved trees. Picking a bowlful (one for the bowl, one for the mouth) …

Are you planning to can this summer for the first time, or are you an experienced canner in need of inspiration to find modern ways of doing old-fashioned things? Either …

I am incredibly selective about kitchen appliances and doodads. If it’s going to take up space in my kitchen, it better work hard. And there’s one appliance that outworks all …

Growing pumpkins in your garden can be incredibly rewarding, especially if you enjoy the taste of homemade puree for pies, soups and even pasta sauce. But if you get a …

If cheese is an essential food in your life, listen up, for there is more than one brilliant way to store cheese, so it lasts longer. There may even be …

Halloween has come and gone. All the ‘good’ candy is gone; it’s nothing but pink pieces of cement (also known as Hubba Bubba) and those weird peanut butter taffy things …

Blink, and you’ll miss it. The asparagus season, that is. For gardeners, fresh asparagus and rhubarb are the first two plants to harvest each spring, but only if you’ve taken …

Do you know what’s awful? Mushy canned asparagus. That’s what’s awful. You know what’s amazing? Dilly pickled asparagus. Especially dilly pickled asparagus that only takes a whopping five minutes of …

When asparagus is in season, you better enjoy a few green stems every chance you get. If you don’t spear the chance, you’ll likely have to wait another year till …

If you’ve harvested a bumper crop of red onions and you aren’t sure what to do with them, no need to despair, that’s where quick pickled red onions come into …

Among my friends, I’m known as a dab hand in the kitchen and garden. However, my family knows better. They see all the kerfuffles, gardening-endeavors-gone-wrong, terrible meals, and dead houseplants …

Ah, the poor zucchini. This humble cucurbit ends up being the joke of many a gardener each summer. With comparisons to baseball bats and billy clubs, its reputation for producing …

For many people, fridges and freezers are an important element of the kitchen. They are food-saving devices that store everything from ice cream to orange juice, including everything you need …

Throwing out leftovers that have languished in the fridge always makes me feel guilty, especially if it was from a meal we all enjoyed. But nothing makes me feel worse …

Potatoes and onions are appetizing when French-fried and served up on a plate, yet there are reasons to keep a safe distance between the two in the pantry. In the …

Not all foods can last forever. Except one. That would be honey. It’s but one of the longest-lasting foods to store in your pantry – but only if you store …

Strawberry season is a quick one. It could be as short as a couple of weeks if it was a cold spring. That’s why as soon as those berries are …

Can you imagine eating a 9-month old apple? What do you even think that would taste like? Some people may conjure up images of wrinkly, or moldy and shrunken apples; …

If you’ve followed our secrets for your best strawberry harvest, you’ve probably got a ton of bright red berries on your hands this year. Finding yourself with a large basket …