Every year we forage blackberries (they’re actually dewberries but are in the same family) and try to pick enough to last the entire year. We freeze some of the blackberries and we make a super easy blackberry jam recipe to give as gifts and to enjoy ourselves. I like to keep track of all our […]
Canning Dried Beans to Save Time and Money
I love the convenience of having canned black beans and other dried beans on hand. However, I don’t like the price of buying canned black beans. So one of the first things I learned to can in my pressure canner was how to can dried beans. Every year I buy dried beans in bulk and […]
Preserving Mustang Grapes {make jelly, juice, and wine}
All along the rural roads in Texas there are wild mustang grapes and muscadine grapes that grow. Every summer we go grape hunting and pick enough grapes to make grape jelly and grape juice. Mustang grapes and muscadine grapes are not the same plant, although most of us use the terms interchangeably, but they and […]
Old fashioned bread and butter pickles – just like grandma used to make
Last year our garden produced lots of cucumbers. At least a lot for our family since only 3 of us like them. We had enough that I wanted to make pickles – bread and butter pickles like my granny’s. The problem was, I didn’t have her recipe. So I called one of my aunts and asked […]
making salsa
We were so excited last week when we finally had enough tomatoes to make some salsa and then a sweet couple that we go to church with brought us 38 pounds of tomatoes from their garden. When they came over and asked us how many we wanted, I was trying really hard not to be […]
