Preserving Food Archives

There is so much you can do with your tomato harvest. Learn how to can, freeze, dehydrate and ferment tomatoes for now and later.

Preserving the Harvest…Tomatoes

Preserving tomatoes is a summer tradition in many homes. But preserving tomatoes can be more than spaghetti sauce and salsa. There are so many ways …

Canning pickles is not the only way to preserve cucumbers. You can also ferment, dehydrate and even freeze them.

Preserving the Harvest….Cucumbers

It seems to be feast or famine with cucumbers at our little homestead. Some years I just cannot get them to produce at all and …

Preserving herbs is easy and way cheaper than buying herbs and spices already preserved. Herbs can be preserved by drying or freezing them, putting them in salt and making extracts.

Preserving the Harvest…..Herbs

One of our goals this year was to add more herbs to our garden for both culinary and medicinal uses. Many times those uses overlap. …

Preserving green beans doesn't have to be hard or boring. Learn how to can, freeze, ferment and dehydrate green beans to enjoy now and later.

Preserving the Harvest….Green Beans

Welcome to week one of Preserving the Harvest which will be a twelve week series on preserving fruits, vegetables and herbs to use throughout the …

Fermented cabbage, beet and carrots (rainbow sauerkraut recipe)

I love playing around with different ferments. My family thinks it’s weird but that’s okay. I have a slaw recipe that I learned from a …

Skip the vinegar and pickle peppers the old fashioned way by fermenting them. Fermented peppers give you all the storage benefits of pickled peppers without the vinegar taste. Make fermented jalapenos or fermented sweet banana peppers, the recipe and process is the same.

Fermented (naturally pickled) peppers – a step by step guide

Fermented peppers easy to make and are fantastic for someone just beginning the fermenting journey. Sauerkraut. Isn’t that where everyone begins with fermented vegetables? I …

Fermentation is an old way of preserving food, before refrigeration or canning. Fermented foods include common items such as yogurt, cheese, and sauerkraut, plus less common items such as kefir, kvass, and kimchi. Learn why and how to make homemade fermented vegetables for optimum gut health.

Beginner’s Guide to Fermentation

Fermentation is an old way of preserving food – really old, as in before refrigeration and before canning. Back in the day, you either dehydrated …

Preserving tomatoes is like preserving summer! Learn how to get the most out of your tomato harvest by using up every bit of the tomato, including the extra juice and peels.

Canning Tomatoes in the No-Waste Kitchen

My absolute favorite thing to grow is tomatoes. I love that there are literally thousands of varieties to try. I love the flavor of homegrown tomatoes …