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One of my local grocery stores {Safeway} has cherries on sale this week for $1.29 a pound. So I got up bright and early and headed down to pick up 10 pounds so I could can some cherries to use later this winter. Have you ever tried home canned cherries before? Holy cats, they are Read More >>
Earlier in the week I purchased 50 pounds of peaches at my local grocery store for $.79 a lb. I canned a dozen jars of peaches the other day, but I still have a counter top full of them, so I decided to go ahead and whip up a couple of batches of peach jam this Read More >>
Pickled Beets Recipe I don’t know about you, but I love pickled beets, especially in my salads. So the other day when I harvested nearly 12 pounds of beets, the first thing that came to mind was canning them. If you have never gardened or canned anything before in your life, you’re in luck. Not Read More >>
I owe Krista a big THANK YOU for sending me this wonderful recipe for Rhubarb Cinnamon Jam. I whipped up a batch this morning and it turned out delicious. I love it so much, I plan on making a few more batches of this rhubarb cinnamon jam this afternoon and then stashing it away for Read More >>
Do you remember those 40+ lbs of strawberries I brought home for free the other day? Well, because the “do something with it now or they will rot” clock was ticking I decided to make a few batches of jam. Normally I wouldn’t be making strawberry jam until the end of June when the berries Read More >>
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