Quick healthy dinner recipes are essential to planning meals for a busy homestead family. Even if the family is a downsized family of two! Dinner brings us together for a connection. Sharing the food we grow and prepare at home or purchase locally gives us nourishment to do our work. It's no mystery that as our family's grow and change direction, our meals need to adapt. If we don't adapt we can find ourselves staring at an empty oven at 6 PM, wondering how to salvage dinner … [Read more...]
Stacy Lyn’s Harvest Cookbook
Stacy Lyn's Harvest Cookbook has been released! I have long anticipated this day not just because it's a wonderful book of homesteading and delicious recipes. Stacy Lyn Harris is also my friend. Yes! I have a friend who is a talented chef, mother of seven delightful children, and wife to her best friend. Well known in her southern community and due to the popularity of her previous books and television show, I am sure Stacy Lyn's Harvest doesn't need me, to tell you how wonderful the … [Read more...]
PEAR APPLE JAM for a Delicious Combo Spread
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...]
