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...
The corn is in!
On top of our fabulous bean harvest this summer, our sweet corn is ripe. This year our garden corn is Espresso, a SU hybrid that we grew last year. Boy, is it ever a...
Q and A: Tomato soup, Elderberries, and Pickling peppers
Tomato soup
Do you happen to have a tomato soup recipe using dried powdered tomatoes? I have had a bumper crop of them this year and have canned a lot of whole, chopped, spaghetti sauce,...
Beautiful, warm fall day
I just took a cruise around the gardens and really enjoyed the fragrance of fall leaves. The maples are turning color and other trees and plants are starting to show some fall colors. It's...
Well, today’s high is -9° F
You can guess we're not doing much besides chores today. But, as spring is coming, I sat down and ordered some more fruit trees from our favorite orchard companies, Fedco Trees and St. Lawrence...