Breakfast often brings some of your favorite flavors to the table. From fruits to baked goods, it’s easy to get some of your favorites to start your day. Citrus is a big part of breakfast, and marmalades are a fun way to bring it to your favorite bread, biscuit or toast. Most marmalade recipes are […]
Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce Recipe + Canning Instructions
It’s that time of year that we have too many tomatoes to eat before they go bad. Of course canning is the answer to what to do with the a tomato overload. But tomatoes tend to require blanching, and honestly I absolutely hate that. Plus, removing the skin and seeds takes out some of the […]
Concord Grape Jelly Recipe
Growing up my sister and I played in a grape vine with the neighborhood kids. Just smelling concord grapes instantly sends us both back to being kids. The smell is intoxicating, and that is why I planted two concord vines when we moved into this house a few years ago. One took off last year […]
3 Berry Jam – Pectin Free Recipe!
Almost every day I walk out into the garden, I come back with a few cups of berries. Yes, it seems the blackberry bushes I planted 3 summers ago and last year blueberry bushes are finally producing. This has been the best year for most of our fruit trees as well. But with an overload […]
Dragon Fire Hot Pepper Jelly Recipe With Canning Instructions
It’s that time of year again – our gardens are starting to fill up with delicious goodies. And if your bounty is too much to handle, it may be time start your canning. We had an abundance of hot peppers early this year, and this bumper crop meant it was time to make some hot […]
Shake Up How You Use Your Mason Jars with ReCap
Have you joined the mason jar movement yet? We see great ideas to use them all over Pinterest, besides the obvious use of canning fresh foods in. I absolutely love our jars, and have been a canner for years. But since starting canning I’ve found several different uses for jars in our house. The glass […]
Blueberry Honey Jam Recipe
It’s about this time of year I start to crave fresh fruit that we only get during the warmer summer months. They’re more expensive and harder to find. But as luck would have it, a vendor at the farmer’s market had cases of blueberries on sale for only $4. The berries were ripe and perfect […]
Home Preserving Cookbook Goes from Basics to Beyond
I love canning and preserving, not only does it allow me to keep healthy food on hand, but it means we can stretch our food farther. I’m always on the look out for different twists on preserving our food and different recipes, so I was happy to get a copy of Best of Bridge Home […]
What can you Pickle? Find out in The Complete Book of Pickling
When you think of pickling immediately your thoughts go towards pickles or Peter Piper and his pickled peppers. But beyond that most people don’t know that there are a ton of things you can pickle to add some variety and some new flavors to your recipes. I’ve only started to experiment with pickling different items, […]
Green Tomato and Tomatillo Salsa Canning Recipe
It’s the end of the gardening season here in the Midwest, our first frost has come and the majority of our plants are done for the season. I went out earlier in the week and picked the remaining fruits and veggies out of the garden before we lost any. What I ended up was a […]