How to peel a tomato
Last week I posted about how I make salsa and tomato paste. Both of those start with peeling tomatoes, so I figured I should post how to do this. I would guess that a lot of the folks reading this …...
View ArticleHow to make bread and butter pickles
Typically I don’t have a lot of luck with cucumbers. I usually grow just a couple of cucumbers, but they are partially pollinated. They end up as a ball with a tiny tip on them. This year I have...
View ArticleHow to can green beans
As regular readers know, I have several beds of green beans planted. They are producing fairly well, but I don’t have enough plants to can all the beans we need for the year. So like last year, I...
View ArticleHow to freeze corn
As a rule, I don’t grow corn. For me, it just doesn’t pay off. Each corn-stalk produces just a couple of ears. Corn has to be planted in blocks. Corn is a heavy feeder. In season, sweet corn is...
View ArticleHow to make corn cob jelly
Last week, I posted about how to freeze corn. After cutting all that corn off of the cob, I was left with a bunch of corn cobs. That sure seemed like a lot of waste, so searched the Internet to see …...
View ArticleHow to make watermelon jelly
The other day, my wife picked up a watermelon at the farm stand. I’m not a huge fan of watermelon, but my wife and daughter love it. They ate about half of it and now it is all but forgotten …...
View ArticleHow to make garlic dill pickles
After having success making the bread and butter pickles, my wife asked me to try making some dill pickles. I did some searching and came across a recipe that looked like I would like on the Food In...
View ArticleHow to make dilly beans
Last week, I pulled up the last of the green beans. I decided that I wanted to try pickling some of these beans. So I dug out the recipe for Dilly Beans and made up a batch. These are a … Continue...
View ArticleCanning Barbecue Sauce
In my quest to find more ways to make use of the tomatoes I’m harvesting, I decided to can some barbecue sauce. We don’t use all that much barbecue sauce, but probably go through 4 or 5 bottles a...
View ArticleCanning Pizza Sauce
Last year, I canned a lot of tomato paste. While we do use a lot of tomato paste, I didn’t want to make so much paste this year. I was trying to figure out what I could do with all … Continue reading →
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