These are the adventures of a suburban homemaker struggling to make peace with the globe trotting action hero living inside her.
Here you will find recipes for home food preservation, stories of family life with teenagers, and plenty of nonsense.
Relax, pull up a chair, and help yourself to a warm scone with jam I just put by this morning.
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I‘m often asked what the difference is between fruit spreads. What makes a jelly a jelly and not a jam? Is a preserve the same thing as a fruit butter? Here is a quick guide to fruit spreads to make your shopping easier and hopefully inspire you to make one at home.
Jelly: The Queen of [...]
Tags: Canning · Fruit Spreads · Tip
Easter is over, you were careful to keep the children’s Easter eggs refrigerated for safety, and now you have four dozen gorgeous Easter Eggs in your fridge. How in the world are you going to be able to use them all before they go bad?* Before you sigh thinking of endless egg salad sandwich lunches, [...]
Tags: Canning · Meat/Eggs · Pickling · Recipe · Tip
When it comes to eggs, I am persnickety about freshness and I hope you are, too. According to the CDC, “Salmonella enteritidis silently infects the ovaries of healthy appearing hens and contaminates the eggs before the shells are formed.” That means there is no way of knowing if that perfectly formed completely intact egg with [...]
Tags: Canning · Freezing · Meat/Eggs · Tip · Uncategorized
I love my food processor.
When the very first one came out I HAD to have it. Do you remember the siren’s call of La Machine…whirr… La Machine…Whirr!…La Machine by Moulinex? They were ghastly expensive, but my parents gave in and bought me one for my seventeenth birthday. Ooo La La! It was amazing! I’m [...]
You’ve followed all the instructions and your hot jars are sitting picturesquely on a thick dishtowel awaiting their final touches. What do you do now? Absolutely nothing! After processing, leave your jars untouched for 12 hours. I mean it ladies, no picking them up to admire, no swirling them about and absolutely no tightening of the [...]
I get lots of questions about what exactly do I can and how. This week I’m going to try something new: a tip of the week for home preserving. I figure with the cost of gas and groceries and the renewed popularity of green home Victory Gardens, we can all use tips on how to [...]
