I've been canning quite a few tomatoes this year.  Our heirloom tomato plants have been absolutely loaded with fruit.  I've made s...

Our pear trees are producing a fair amount of decent fruit this year.  I'm still trying to figure out all the varieties that we have.  W...

Back in mid-August, I canned a couple batches of pasta sauce. I used my SIL's recipe for sauce, with a couple modifications. I didn...

Local celery has been in season for the last couple of weeks, so I've been stocking up as much as I can. I've frozen quite a bit ...

I've made a few different types of salsa over the last couple of years... zesty salsa , zucchini salsa , and pineapple-peach salsa . Al...

On Monday, I made up a batch of cream of tomato soup in the crockpot. This recipe comes from my SIL Mary . This is a very good soup. It tas...

I canned pinto beans this morning. 14 pints. That should get us through the year, I think. At least, in combination with all the other ...

I canned a batch of great northern beans this morning - they're still processing in the canner right now. I bought a bunch of organic...

I made baked beans today - they're currently pressure canning. I found a recipe that sounded good on AllRecipes . It utilized the cr...

I canned peaches last year and said I'd probably never do it again until we had our own peach tree to make it a little more economical...

I came across another salsa recipe on RecipeZaar that I knew I wanted to try. It was for peach salsa, but I wanted to make a pineapple-p...

So we're back from vacation and I haven't wasted much time getting back into the kitchen. As expected, the garden is overgrown with...

Guess what I found at the Grand Blanc farmers' market on Sunday?? Tart cherries!! Woohoo!! :) I washed and pitted them on Sunday night...

Well, guess what I found at the farmers market yesterday? Cherries!! And they're actually not Traverse City cherries - which I would...

I finally had some time to can up a batch of balsamic BBQ sauce this morning after I'd canned a batch of strawberry jam. I've bee...

And strawberries, too! I've been hitting up the farmers markets again this week. On Wednesday, I stopped by the Allen Street market i...

For the last month or more, I've been working on a list of preservation efforts I'd love to accomplish at some point this year. Most...

I decided to make some strawberry rhubarb preserves after my visit to the Grand Blanc Farmers Market this morning (we were in GB, so just ...

This morning I made and canned a batch of strawberry syrup using a recipe that I found on one of the canning boards I visit. I had been lo...

This past week I have been able to hit up another farmers' market and, even though I hadn't planned it, got a good start on my prese...