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Posted on Sep 4 2014 - 8:31pm by Patty
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Apple Relish Fall is on its way, and with it an abundance of apples. Rather than making the usual apple butter and apple pie why not try something a bit different. This is a sweet and savory relish that is great with chicken or pork, or great spread on crackers or toast. Ingredients: 8 cups of bell peppers finely chopped 12 cups of Apples, chopped (choose from sweet...

  Food just keeps getting more and more expensive every time we turn around. If you are like me you are looking for just about any way you can find to stretch your food budget, save money, and eliminate waste on the food you buy. It gets harder and harder by the day to watch good, expensive food go to waste in the refrigerator because you are not able to eat...

  Not wasting food is a priority in our house, and rather than letting it go to waste a lot of times I will freeze it. Freezing is not only a great way to keep food from going bad, but it can be a great way to save time for busy family and to save money on items that are on sale. There are a lot of things you might not even know you can freeze. This list is an...

Summer is the perfect time to make and can your own soup stocks and if you have never used a pressure canner before there is just nothing easier to start on. We do a lot of scratch cooking so we use a lot of stock, whether it be vegetable, chicken, turkey or beef. Making stock could not be easier and it is not time intensive. The other great thing about making stock...

Posted on May 7 2009 - 8:17pm by Patty
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Ok so nobody really had to tell me spring was here, I have been digging in the garden, mowing the lawn, and trimming the sidewalk for weeks now. But I just get so excited this time of year, it is beyond a doubt my favorite season. Summer just gets too hot, and when fall comes around I am so tired of the heat and canning that I am ready for the winter. I live for...

I love the flavor of sun dried tomatoes, but find the price to be a bit much for my wallet, so last year I started making my own, with the hope of getting all the flavor and none of the cost. If you grown your own tomatoes then your cost for these lovely flavor filled gems will be minimal. You do not need any special equipment to make these, they are incredibly simple to make, and more than likely you will find the equipment you need in your own kitchen. Start with firm ripe Roma tomatoes not only do they make the best sun dried tomatoes,...