In the fall, soup and hearty stews are especially delicious on those days that keep feet wanting more than one pair of socks, and hands wanting a good pair of fleece gloves. Receiving a warm bowl of some of this thick and hearty chili recipe is like receiving a warm hug from the kitchen after a long day at work, or out in the garden. Two Thick and Hearty Soups The ...
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How to Make Homemade Strawberry Jam {Safe and Easy}
It's strawberry season and the fruit is fresh, sweet, and delicious! Making wine, syrup or just eaten raw, they are a wonderful summer treat! But don't forget to bring summer to the table with homemade strawberry jam--fill your shelves for the year! Homemade Strawberry Jam is Super Easy Making jam is a great place to start if you are new to canning. It's quick and ...
How to Make Bone Broth in Your Crock Pot Express
There aren't many things more comforting than a good mug of soup on a cold day, and a good soup's game is upped when you use this pressure cooker bone broth in it. Whether you have the Crock Pot Express or some other pressure cooker, you can have your bone broth in under two hours! The Crock Pot Express Multi-Cooker is pretty much my favorite appliance to use for beans, ...
How to Be a Boss at Canning Bone Broth at Home Safely
Want to fill your shelves with food while saving money? Sick of buying canned bone broth at the store when you know very well, you can make it for free out of your kitchen scraps? I know you do, and I know you are. The good news is canning your own bone broth at home will make you a BOSS at filling your shelves in no time flat! Follow this recipe, and you will be doing it ...
How to Make THE Best Strawberry Syrup {from the Tops}
I'll bet you are thinking, "What the heck kind of homemade strawberry syrup can she be making here?" But stick with me, I know you will adore this recipe. It's cheap, easy, delicious, needs no cooking, and it's made from cast-off strawberry tops that would normally go into the trash or compost heap! Sound good? Heck yeah! If you've been reading my blog for a while, you ...
How to Make the Best Fermented Garlic Dill Pickles
Making pickles from scratch sounds like a hard thing to do, doesn't it? Wrong! Fermenting is one of the easiest of all food preservation techniques. The summer flavor of these fermented garlic dill pickles recipe will blow your mind--and, they are ready inside a week! Dill pickles have been a favorite of mine ever since I was a little girl. I could eat a whole jar of Del ...
How to Make the Best Salsa {Recipe for Water Bath Canning}
Summer is a fantastic time for not only eating delicious salsa made from your huge tomato harvest, but for canning salsa too! This is the best salsa recipe for canning, and is wonderful to make for your shelf every year. It has been tested and found to be safe when you follow the given instructions, so you don't have to worry that you'll kill your family if you can some ...
How to Make Fruit Wine at Home: Second Ferment
So far, we have gathered our tools for the wine making process, made the mash for the first ferment, and this week it's time to transfer our wine to a 1 gallon jug for the second ferment! Are we having fun yet? I know I am! Despite the fact that I am 72 days sober on the day I'm writing this article, I really do enjoy making wine. We grow chardonnay grapes here on our ...
Wine Making Process: How to Start an Easy First Ferment
Do you grow fruit on your homestead and are not sure what else you can do with it? Has your family eaten enough of it that they are ready for it to go out of season? Are you jammed and jellied out? Why not try wine making? In this post, I'll take you through step 2 in the fruit wine making process, which is starting the first ferment. ( Didn't catch step 1? Read it ...
Wine Making Process: What You Need to Get Started
Preserving what we grow is so rewarding, and there are so many ways to do it! Home canning, dehydrating, freezing, and even storing are a few ways to "put up" the foods you grow, but there are definitely more! One of my favorite ways to preserve fruit is to make wine. This post will kick off a series that will take you through the fruit wine making process, step-by-step from ...
How to Make Strawberry Wine Step-By-Step
Looking for something to do with those few extra pounds of strawberries at the end of summer? Why not capture summer 2018 in a bottle by learning how to make strawberry wine? It's sweet, it's refreshing, and you don't need much to make it if you already have the equipment and supplies. If you haven't made wine before, don't worry. Inside of this post is everything you need ...
Quick, Easy Mason Jar Soup Recipes to Give at the Holidays
Holidays. It's that time of year where gift-giving is pretty much expected, yet who has all the money to spend (at least) $25 per person for a decent gift? While I know it's early to be thinking about the holidays, I've already started working on our holiday gifts. From crocheted super hero ornaments to cookie mix in a jar, I'm determined to be armed with inexpensive handmade ...