Gathering the fruit for the pear apple jam was easy. Our local market had some delicious looking pears and I had been wanting to make a pear jam. I purchased five pounds of the fruit, but I am not sure how much was left when I went to make the jam! Fortunately I did have enough for two cups of finely chopped pears called for in the recipe. I searched for a pear jam recipe and came across this one for PEAR APPLE JAM. It is from Recipe4Living.com. Great! … [Read more...]
Canning Green Beans from the Harvest
Canning green beans brings back memories of long summer days and warm sun. Listen for the fresh snap as you prepare the beans for canning, right from harvest. Every speck of work needed for canning green beans will be worth it when you eat fresh all winter long. First, let's review some of the basics of preparing vegetables for canning recipes. Vegetables almost always need to be pressure canned. The hot water bath canner that is used to as a food preservation method for many fruits … [Read more...]
How to Pressure Can Root Vegetables
When you want to pressure can root vegetables for your food storage, it may seem like a big task. Pressure canning isn't any harder than hot water bath canning and has many benefits. Only high acid fruits and pickles should be canned in a hot water bath canner. The low acid root vegetable require the pressure canner preservation method for safe long term storage of food. Always use a pressure canning when canning recipes for complete meals, if any of the ingredients are low acid or … [Read more...]
3 Ingredient Homemade Iced Cafe Mocha
Recently, I came up with three ingredients that make a delicious iced cafe mocha. In the past, nothing I put together for an iced cafe mocha measured up in taste and richness to the high priced coffee shop mocha treats. For a serious coffee drinker like me, it has to be good! Sometimes, the weather gets sizzling and drinking a hot cup of coffee is almost too much to attempt. Usually, I drink the hot coffee anyway, but having an iced coffee with delicious rich flavor is the perfect … [Read more...]
Freezing Eggs
Recently a question was asked concerning freezing eggs after they are hard cooked eggs. I did not know the answer so I did what every other red blooded human being does now, googled it. I was led to the site of the American Egg Board. They have a whole site dedicated to..... EGGS! How to cook, store, freeze, dry, and other ways to use the incredible, edible egg. Yes, they are the ones who coined the phrase over thirty years ago. Wow, I remember that so I must be getting old! Eggs are … [Read more...]
