It's first week of September and I am picking tomatoes daily to process. With salsa prepped for the winter, it was time to move onto pasta sauce. I hate peeling tomatoes. It involves spending more time in the kitchen, and more time sweating. This is how to use all the tomatoes you grow: white, yellow,… Continue reading Canning No Peeling Pasta Sauce
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Canning 101: Cinnamon Blueberry Jam
Last night I hosted a Canning 101 class on the island, and had us make cinnamon blueberry jam. If you attended, and missed the recipe, here it is: ~Sarah
Corn Tomato Salsa
While we are growing corn this year on the homestead, we don't have a lot of it, so while out on the mainland I saw the annual signs along the highway for fresh corn. I wasn't the only one peeling off the highway for it. At 4 ears for $1 you stop! It was being… Continue reading Corn Tomato Salsa
Thai Style Sweet Chili Sauce
When I first did this recipe last year (Pomona's Pectin helped me develop it!) I liked it, but noticed that after storage time the sauce got hotter as time went on. Oops! So I went back to it, and reduced the pepper flakes by half this year. It's still spicy. Tender tongues might to cut… Continue reading Thai Style Sweet Chili Sauce
Canning Handcrafted Lemon Curd
One of the small luxuries in life I grew up with was lemon curd, because it was one of the few things my Nana passed on to my Mom. Nana wasn't known for her cooking skills (my Grandfather hired housekeepers who did the cooking and cleaning), she could barely boil a pot of water for… Continue reading Canning Handcrafted Lemon Curd