When life hands you smashed up peaches and all your burners are in use for canning, its time to make Peach – vanilla – honey jam on the BBQ. As mentioned in last week’s post about our peach canning odyssey, I am never ever peeling another peach. All pealing peaches does is take perfect lovely […]
How to Can a Bushel of Peaches in 7 hours with Some Swearing, a New Pot and 29 Jars
As mentioned in last week’s peach lemonade post and in our #canning play by play on twitter, we spent most of last Tuesday turning 1 bushel of gorgeous, perfect, marvellous Red Haven Ontario peaches from BizjakFarms into 29 jars of assorted canning goodness. I feel like this post is a little late as once […]
Recipe: Ruby Red Rhubarb Preserves or Rhubarb Strawberry Jam
Rhubarb is in full season so when we left the farm we also left with a cooler full of rhubarb. Its also hard to believe that this little plant from April… is now lovely tender stalks of rhubarb… So what to do with A gazillion stalks of gorgeous organic rhubarb? Make a simple preserve […]
Pimp that Preserve update
Take a second to check out the entries for Well Preserved’s Pimp that Preserve competition and Vote for your favourite. My entry is number 10, but I just want everyone to see these fun jars and check out this great site. If my site is what happens when an artist starts gardening then theirs is […]
How to: Pimp that Preserve 2010
After a week off to fill a crazy amount of etsy orders, I’m back on the blog. It’s so great that so many stockings will be filled with seeds and that so many people will be growing such interesting fruits and vegetables this spring. I also had a nice mention from Cracker’s Blog in the […]