Do you ever wonder what I lust after?
I'm like everyone else; sometimes I really, really want something. And I'm the one who preaches about deciding whether something is needed or just "wanted!" Like everyone, we're really broke after the holidays, too....
Q and A: making sauerkraut and feral cat
Making sauerkraut
I started some sauerkraut just after St. Patrick's Day. I followed the recipe in your canning book, and put it in a fermentation crock, setting it in the corner of our kitchen. It...
Q and A: canning spaghetti sauce, canning potatoes, and cucumber beetles
Canning spaghetti sauce
Why is it okay to water bath can salsa but not spaghetti sauce?
Katie Gilbert
Milo, Iowa
You can certainly can spaghetti sauce without meat in a boiling water bath canner but many experts...
Winter’s back in the saddle again
We were expecting 6-7 inches of snow but so far we've got more than a foot and it's looking stormy over to the west. Our high today is 1 degree above zero, with our...
It’s still frigid, but we’re still plugging along
For instance, last night it was -40° F and yesterday, our high was -24° F. Hey, it keeps northern Minnesota under-populated … But I can't lie; I'll sure be glad when Saturday comes as...