Kitchen Quick Tips - Storing Fresh Berries

Swirl fresh berries in a solution of 1 part vinegar to 10 parts water before refrigerating to prevent the berries from getting moldy or soft...

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Home Canned Applesauce

Despite the fact that I have been focusing on home canning tomato products, other home canned products tend to get processed at the same tim...

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Jars of Home Canned Tomato Products Adding Up

Once my husband was out of the hospital and on the mend it was back to canning tomato products.  I had lost a bit of time but nothing I coul...

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Tomato Stock

My tomato canning season in 2011 was almost non-existent.  September 1, 2011 saw us living between our new house with the new gas range not ...

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Freezing Tomatoes

The first hamper of tomatoes arrived mid-August, about two weeks earlier than normal.  I was quite excited to get a head start on tomatoes w...

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Tomato Tips and Home Canned Tomato Juice

Before I start the tomato posts, I thought it would be nice to give a few tips for processing tomatoes.  Aside of the tomatoes I grow, I get...

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Peach Syrup

Home canners by nature tend to be a rather frugal segment of the population.  While the primary goal is to put safe, healthy, additive food ...

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Summer Salsa

This has been a rather interesting summer with respect to produce.  Adverse spring and growing conditions has affected my home garden as wel...

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Island Spiced Peach Chutney

I was finishing up canning peaches in mid-August and decided to make a peach chutney .   One of our favourite chutneys is mango chutney .  ...

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Peach Salsa

Salsa is a Spanish term for sauce.  In North America, salsa  usually refers to the spicy, tomato-based hot sauces typical of Mexican cuisin...

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Candied Peach Slices

I like to experiment in the kitchen, always looking for one more great dish or food product that will go on to become a family favourite.  A...

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Peachy Delights

I started home canning peaches a couple of weeks ago with beautiful, large peaches from the Niagara region.  At $45 per bushel which works ...

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Canning Peaches

I am in high gear doing a lot of home canning.  The produce is coming in fast, back to back right now.  I just finished up doing cucumbers j...

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Low Sugar Gooseberry Jam

When we first looked at our new property back in September of 2011, I noticed the fruit trees and over grown gardens.  Tucked into one side ...

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Home Canned Pineapple Pieces and Pineapple Jelly

One of our local grocery stores (No Frills) held their dollar sale in early June.  At one time, the dollar sales were for food products that...

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Home Canned Stewed Rhubarb

Home canners often freeze berries and other fruits to be canned outside of the busy canning season.    This frozen fruit is later made into ...

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Kitchen Quick Tips - Freezing Bananas

Freeze unpeeled bananas as is.   To use, defrost and cut off the end.  Squeeze the banana out ready to use in your favourite banana bread an...

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First Canning Session on My New Natural Gas Range

During the eighteen months that our house was on the market, I purposely slowed down my home canning.  The reasons were simple.  Canning ses...

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Kitchen Quick Tips - Avoid the Green

Blueberries are high in a group of pigments called anthocyanins (blue pigments).  Avoid using baking soda when cooking with blueberries as t...

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Strawberry Cups

We don't eat a lot of desserts, definitely not on a daily basis.  Rather desserts are more of a special event or holiday offerings.  Las...

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