Strawberries are one of my favorite summer fruits, and I look forward to canning strawberries every year. Unfortunately the birds usually get to my strawberries before I do! This bird netting was a life saver last year, and totally saved my strawberry patch. I have tried many recipes for canning strawberries over the years. I…
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Recipe for the best apricot barbecue sauce. Easy recipe for beginning canners. This tangy barbecue sauce goes great with chicken and pork.
I am always on the lookout for good barbecue sauce recipes. I recently purchased a big box of apricots and started looking for recipes to use up all my apricots. Seeing that apricot barbecue sauce recipes are popular on Pinterest right now, I decided to come up with a version of one of those recipes…
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Preserve fresh asparagus with this delicious Easy Pickled Asparagus recipe! Made with simple pantry ingredients, these crunchy pickled spears are a wonderful addition to sandwiches, appetizers, and snack trays. Perfect for simple homemade living, from scratch recipes, home canning, and homesteading.
Yay! It’s asparagus season again. We have asparagus fields not even 10 miles from where we live and I have never gone to a farm to buy fresh cut asparagus. Well, this year I did, and I am so glad that I did. Time to learn how to can pickled asparagus. Pickled asparagus is one…
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How to can garbanzo beans (chick peas) to make homemade hummus. Step by step pressure canning for beginners.
If you like to can, and you also like homemade hummus, than you should try canning garbanzo beans so that you always have them on hand when you want to make homemade hummus. Canning your own beans is much less expensive then buying precooked beans. You should be able to find garbanzo beans (also called…
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If your garden is overwhelming you with greens during the summer, here are several ways you can preserve them for winter, including instructions for canning greens. A lot of people freeze their greens (spinach, beet greens, swiss chard, etc.), but the problem with freezing is that depending on how much freezer space you have,…
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