Food Preservation

The above video shows you how easy it is to dehydrate banana chips with cinnamon and sugar to make a crunchy, delicious snack!  This is one of my favorite food …

Do you ever long for a day when you could peel tomatoes easily to make salsas or sauces so that food preservation didn’t feel like so much work?  Do you …

Hi guys!  Today I want to tell you how to make dehydrated raspberries for snacking or your food storage.  This is one of the easiest food preservation “recipes” that exists!  …

Did you know that there are over 7,500 types of apples grown around the world? I want to show you how to preserve apples for food storage!  There are lots …

Don’t you just love fall?  Enjoying the fruits of your labors at harvest time is just the best!  Of course, you need lots of yummy recipes to use up all …

This post contains ads. Homemade cinnamon applesauce is one of my favorite fall apple recipes.  It is a delicious comfort food, whether served warm or cold!  It’s a great way …

Don’t you just love cilantro?  Here are some quick tips on how to preserve cilantro for use in salsa or Mexican food.   This is one of my favorite food preservation tips.  …

Sometimes the pumpkins you grow in your garden aren’t big enough to be your Halloween jack-o-lanterns, so what should you do with all of those pumpkins?  Make homemade pumpkin puree!  …

This post contains ads. This weekend I have been dehydrating apples with cinnamon and sugar.  It is such a yummy and (relatively) healthy snack.  You may have figured out by …

This post contains ads. This week I have been canning homemade applesauce.  I have a sweet neighbor who has an apple tree and he gives me lots of apples from …

I am always looking for food preservation ideas.  Between not wanting to waste the fresh produce from our garden and buying in bulk to save money, there is money to …

Today I want to show you my “recipe” for how to preserve strawberries using a food dehydrator.  I recently made them for the first time and they were delicious!  So sweet! …

I have been learning about food dehydrating basics.  I’m going to share my “recipe” for how I dehydrated some apples.  The process is the same for many fruits and vegetables. …

Don’t you just love homemade raspberry freezer jam?  If you haven’t made it before, you won’t believe how easy the recipe is.  We’ve gotten lots of fresh raspberries from our …

This post contains ads. Have you ever looked at the beautiful jars of canned fruit in someone else’s food storage and wished you had mason jars full of garden produce …

Have you ever looked at the beautiful jars of canned fruit on someone else’s food storage shelves and wished you knew how to do that?  I know I did…until I …

This post contains ads. Preserving zucchini makes sure that we have homegrown zucchini all year long!  Not to mention, it is pretty a pretty great feeling to become more self-sufficient …

I am so excited today to share with you  the “recipe” for How To Can Salsa-The Easy Way.  Really.  It is soooo not as hard as you think it is!  And …

Food preservation, especially preserving fresh herbs can sometimes be tricky, but drying parsley is so easy.  If you use parsley a lot in your cooking, you need to learn how …

Hello, my friends!  After having an almost dizzyingly [yeah…I made that word up…so what? :)] crazy busy August and September, the dust is starting to settle.  Today we will can …