Top 10 Kitchen Essentials for a Traditional Foods Kitchen. What are my most used items in my kitchen where I make all our food from scratch? This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. Y’all know by now that I am a huge believer in traditional ancestral foods. Give me all the…
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How To Can Water (and why you should)
How to can water! My recipe and instructions for canning water and why you should preserve some to have on hand for emergencies! This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. Hmmm I do a lot of weird things. Have you all noticed? I ferment stuff on the counter, I boil chicken…
Canned Apple Pie Filling Recipe
Canned Apple Pie Filling Recipe This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. It is the season for canning. I always love this time of year. Out in the cool fall weather harvesting apples from my grandparent’s 24 acre orchard. Bringing it back into my kitchen and preserving it in all the…
The Best Pickled Jalapeño Recipe
Pickled Jalapeño Recipe This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. Y’all. These are literally the best pickled jalapenos I’ve ever had. My cousin-in-law brought some to one of our family get-togethers and I had a hard time not eating the entire jar. Then I promptly got to work canning some of…
How To Make & Can Beef Stock
How To Make & Can Beef Stock. A nutrient dense bone broth, amazing for your gut health, full of collagen and gelatin! This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. I hate that nowadays so many of the parts of the animal are wasted, when they are so amazingly beneficial. Nothing nourishes…
Homemade Canned Apple Butter
As I’ve told you before, this lovely fall season, we have been blessed with as many apples as we can possible handle – what a delicious blessing they have been! We’ve been canning & freezing like madmen! And by “we” I mean “me”. Luke has been busily putting up shiplap in the bathroom – it…
How To Can Dill Pickles
How To Can Dill Pickles – my all time favorite pickle recipe. This makes the most delicious crispy dill pickles we’ve ever had! This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. I am a pickle addict. I will eat a whole quart of pickles a day if you let me. And then…
Making & Canning Applesauce
What do you do when your grandparents own a 24 acre heirloom apple orchard? You can jars and jars of applesauce, apple butter, apple pie filling, apple jam, and then you make a ton of apple desserts…french apple cake, apple crisp, apple pie….and then you eat some more apples. But today we are just gonna…
Making & Canning Roasted Tomato Sauce
Hey y’all! I have found my all time favorite way to make tomato sauce! When I roast my tomatoes it gives them this amazing rich flavor that you just can’t beat! Plus, roasting the tomatoes makes the skin peel on its own without any blanching. The roasting concentrates the juices and caramelizes the sugars in…
How To Can Pears
Here is a really easy recipe for canning your pears! Pears happen to be Luke’s favorite canned fruit so I made a lot of it! It’s always so fun to sit and cut up pears while you listen to your favorite podcast (currently Living Homegrown) or watching your favorite show (Call The Midwife). Here’s…