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Habanero Gold Jelly

We spent most of the month of October at our vacation home in Florida. That meant I could not fully enjoy the remainder of my garden's ...

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Home Canned Chili Con Carne

We do a lot of entertaining both at home and our vacation home. One huge hit has always been chili dogs which basically are all beef wiene...

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My Somewhat Restocked Pantry

I was beyond excited when we bought this house last year knowing full well the fifth bedroom would be used as a full size pantry. The room ...

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Home Canned Crushed Tomatoes

I am not a huge fan of home canning plain, basics as in tomato products. The reason is two fold. First home canned basic tomato products w...

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Home Canned Tomato Purée

One of my goals with home canning is creating a few convenience products for the pantry. I have to tell you I don't can a lot of whole,...

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Tomato Stock Problem

If you have been following this blog you will know I do a lot of home canning. Each year I process somewhere between 1,100 and 1,400 jars o...

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Fermented Dill Pickles

This past summer, much of my focus was on restocking the pantry. Our house had been on the market for almost 19 months before it finally so...

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Low Sugar Hot Pepper Jelly

Hot pepper jelly is an absolute taste sensation when paired with cream cheese. I make a few versions that are sure to please any palate. ...

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Home Canned Plum Sauce

Home canning is one of those activities where you really need to take advantage of what is is season. While my focus for September was proc...

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Home Canned Spaghetti Sauce with Meat

As mentioned yesterday, home canned spaghetti sauce with meat is a must have tomato based product in our pantry. It puts any store bought ...

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Home Canned Chili with Beans and Spaghetti Sauce with Meat

The kitchen has been a flurry of activity with home canning to restock the pantry after our move last year. Now a lot of folks think home c...

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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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Home Canned Pizza Sauce

Homemade pizza has been a long family tradition in our home. During the busy tomato canning season I put up a fair number of jars of home c...

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Home Canned Italian Garden Sauce with Mushrooms

I was so impressed with the tomato purée that I canned seven 750 ml jars of it, knowing the tomato purée would be a convenient product in th...

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Italian Garden Sauce

Several years ago I started experimenting with home canned tomato based sauces spurred on by an increasing number of gourmet style pasta sau...

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Home Canned Seafood Cocktail Sauce

I have been making my own seafood cocktail sauce for a number of years. Now the thing is you really don't have to can it if you will b...

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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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Old Fashioned Chili Sauce

Yesterday, I started writing about my husband's hospital stay just as I was starting my fourth hamper. While I had all of the ingredien...

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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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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...