Here are some tips and techniques for roasting and grilling chili peppers and vegetables.
When canning salsa recipes you need to take extra care, it can definitely pose a health risk if not done properly.
Cherry salsa can be a spicy-sweet condiment for chicken, turkey or pork. Or try it as a side dish, or as a dip with crackers, preferably whole-grain.
Peaches may be seasonal, but peach chutney is a wonderful accompaniment anytime of the year. The following recipe for chutney, which calls for frozen peaches, is useful to have for those times when fresh, good quality peaches are not available.
It’s never too early to start thinking about what to do with all the tomatoes that will soon be overwhelming gardens and markets.
Drying or dehydrating vegetables is one of the oldest known methods of food preservation. The really great thing about it is that you can do it at home with equipment you have on hand.
You can freeze almost anything. Just get yourself a supply of zip lock freezer bags and get to work. Below are just a few of the vegetables you can preserve by the freezing method, and its easy.
By canning your own tomatoes you will also be able to enjoy the flavorful taste of you home grown tomatoes long after the season ends.
Here are the steps that you need to take so you can freeze your own vegetables.
Some vegetables are easier to store than others but most organic vegetables can be stored and saved in some way or another.
With cold weather soon upon us, everyone should be working to save your harvest, either by storing or preserving. Canning, drying, and freezing, are good ways of preserving your crops such as beans, corn, peas, peppers, summer squash, and tomatoes.
Grandma loved to bake peach pies or top pancakes with peaches instead of syrup. During the summer months, she would buy baskets of seconds and freeze them. Here is her recipe for freezing peaches.
Canning at home is a great way to preserve fruit (including tomatoes) in times of plenty. Their are several methods you can use to can fruit at home.
Keeping fruits fresh for an extended period is not difficult if correct preservation techniques are applied.