After a lengthy drought, we just got three inches of rain and it isn’t...
We woke up to thundering rain this morning. It had rained all night and now, in the afternoon it's still raining. Gloomy except for we know that, finally, our drought of all summer has...
Q and A: pint and a half jars and processing choke cherries
Pint and a half jars and processing choke cherries
I just recently bought the new tall pint and half jars, but realized there are no instructions out there on canning with them. Should I just...
In praise of really big trees
Did you ever stand at the base of a really big tree and look straight up? It's truly amazing. We have several small groves of very large pines on our homestead. The largest tree...
Q and A: Canning green tomato relish, Fall garden prep, and Pumpkin pie filling
Canning green tomato relish
I am trying to modernize a recipe from a 1934 Watkins Cookbook that makes the best Green Tomato Relish. Here is the recipe:
2 pounds of green tomatoes
1 onion
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup...
We have plenty of irons in the fire
Most people have a spring project or two going right now. We have a dozen! Eeeek! Let's see, our garden is being planted. I have just planted 50 tomato plants, in their Wall'o Waters,...