It's that time of year.  Summer is winding down and the garden is bounteous. Most years I have a good tomato crop but this year seem...

Raise your hand if you STILL have tomatoes from your garden you don't know what to do with?  Well, I don't...anymore.  I had to pi...

I've been  up to my elbows in peaches lately, but I'm not complaining. They are one of my most favorite things of summer.  I usua...

I've been home canning my own spaghetti sauce for years.  I love gathering the last of the tomatoes in the fall and filling up my jars...

*I thought this was another fitting post for the end of the summer. If you're like anyone else, tomatoes are busting out of your garden...

Yummy, healthy, pumpkin; what more could a girl ask for? The first time I made these muffins my girls devoured them within days. I've be...

Well, I certainly did not think I would be getting out my home canning equipment in the middle of winter. However, I had so many raspberries...

I should have posted this at the end of the summer when I was actually making these. But, I will post it now, prefacing my next dinner post ...

4 lbs of good *cooking apples 1 cup apple cider vinegar 2 cups water or apple cider brown sugar Salt 2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp ground cloves 1/...

2 Tbsp. vegetable or canola oil 4 cups yellow onion, chopped 9 cloves garlic, minced 6 tsp. kosher salt, divided 2 tsp. chili powder 1/2 tsp...

2 cups pineapple juice 8 oz. red hot candy Apples Heat to dissolve candy. Peel, slice and core apples and let them sit in the juice for a f...

Last year we planted 2 tomatillo plants in our garden because we thought it would be fun and something new. Unfortunately, they didn't d...

I had never heard of, let alone tasted, mustard pickles until I was in college. I had a roommate from Canada who brought these with her, al...