Category: Food Preservation
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Food Preservation: Simple Homemade Salsa for Canning
With tons of “safer-at-home” time on my hands, I’ve been canning and preserving foods weekly. So far, since the pandemic began, I’ve made canned tomatoes, prickly pear jelly, peach butter, mango jam, and frozen creamed corn, peas, and even okra. Today’s canning project was inspired by cute jars I found at the Dollar Tree and […]
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Prickly Pear Jelly
As a kid, I didn’t know that the pretty red fruit on a cactus were edible, and I’m not even sure I would have been willing to try one, but as an adult, I’ve learned otherwise, and I’m willing to try just about any food on the planet. Well, maybe. I’m still not interested in […]
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Sweet & Spicy Tomato Jam #RedGold
In this year’s Teacher Christmas Gift Bags, our kids’ teachers will receive a jar of Red Gold’s Sweet & Spicy Tomato Jam, along with a recipe card for suggested serving possibilities.
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Canning Day: Canning Fresh Tomatoes
As far back as I can remember, my mom & grandma canned tomatoes. In fact, I have very vivid memories of my mom having a huge piece of plywood set up on two saw horses under the car port with her tomatoes laid out to ripen the last little bit before she canned them. I […]
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Forget the Cookies & Ornaments…Round 2
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post about holiday gifts for teachers, the boys and I have been doing this for 11+ years, and I don’t think we’ve ever repeated a project. Several people have mentioned having teachers who were diabetic, and as a diabetic, I can relate. We are inundated by sugary sweets during the […]
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Eli’s Citrus Jelly
I was born into the citrus industry. My grandparents owned orange groves; my mother planted her own small grove at our house; my stepmother even works for Florida’s Natural Orange Juice; I learned to clean and assemble Micro-jets before I could drive. However, not one time in my adult life did I ever consider having […]