Q and A: canning caramel and chocolate sauce, planting corn, and yields for canning...
Canning caramel and chocolate sauce
I have easy and delicious recipes for Caramel Sauce and Chocolate Sauce that I'd like to can for Christmas gifts. Both have cream, butter, and vanilla; the caramel has brown...
It’s been hot, hot, hot — even here in northern Minnesota
Will has the fence around the new forty acres done to the point that the horses can be turned in, with four wires on three sides and two wires on the farthest side. It's...
Q and A: Leaving Montana and garlic and onions
Leaving Montana
I'm responding to your last entry in your blog regarding your trip to Montana. Sounded like you really loved Montana. Just curious why you left? I would have to agree with you it...
The sun is slowly melting our snowbanks
It's amazing how much better you feel when the sun is shining brightly, and the eaves are dripping steadily! Even more, my 3-year-old amaryllis from Walmart is blooming yet again — and I give...
Q and A: canning partially frozen meat and double stacking jars in the pressure...
Canning partially frozen meat
My freezer went on the fritz, so I wanted to can up all the meat I had in there before it went bad. Now, because I had so much and was...