Homemade Peach Butter for The Daring Cooks Challenge

Have a bounty of tomatoes? Tutorial on prepping them for canning or freezing. Or using!

We made dill pickles that could be eaten after just 24 hours and are absolutely wonderful, especially to garlic lovers like us!

curried green zebras – a crunchy, spicy pickle and a perfect way to use up those late blooming green tomatoes!

The Best Bengali Sweet Ever

Need some incentive to haul out the canner? Here are 9 GOOD Reasons to Can Your Own Food. Be inspired.

apricot vanilla jam from foraged fruit

tips for making freezer jam…the best jam around! easy and super fresh tasting.

Crunchy Dilled Carrot Pickles – with tips for easy canning!

Juice Sweetened Peach Freezer Jam

Southwestern Black Bean and Corn Salsa

My first time pickling + a great recipe for Cold Pack Refrigerator Dill Pickles

Smoky, sweet and spicy Charred Tomato and Chile Salsa from Canning for a New Generation by Liana Krissoff!

Vanilla Apricot Jam from The Hazel Bloom. Tart-sweet apricots mellowed by vanilla beans… yum!

Taste of summer – raspberry jam!

I’m in a bit of a pickle…

Can your surplus now – avoid the grasshopper’s fate!

Vampire pickles – double the garlic, none of the sparkling emo kids

How is the watermelon like a dinosaur… all this plus a pickle recipe that goes great with your hotdog and homemade ketchup!

Grape Jam for 2 (refrigerator style) safe canning for a beginner.

Quick and easy kosher-style dill pickles, ready to eat in 24 hours.