Q and A: canning diced jalapeños and canning peppers
Canning diced jalapeños
I'm interested in canning diced jalapeños. I don't want to pickle them. I want to be able to add a spoonful at a time to dishes I'm cooking later. Should I water...
Q and A: canning soup, induction stovetop, rancid brown rice
Canning soup
I live by myself and I have had two soup suppers lately and I have a lot of soup left over. I'm eating soup three times a day. I have baked potato with...
We finally had our big freeze
Sunday night, it dropped down to 27 degrees F. A clear sky made it inevitable. Bummer! Luckily, we had already rushed around and gotten all of our frost-sensitive garden produce inside. Will took the...
Finally, after a week of cold rain, the sun comes out
We have had a summer with no summer. A friend I talked to today said yesterday it was 33 degrees early in the morning! And we've had highs of 50 for a week. Even...
Our fall rains have arrived
And boy, the rain does slow down things ripening in the garden. We should have crates of ripe tomatoes right now, but there are really very few — just enough to eat, cook with,...