Pickled pumpkin is a delicious and unique way to use a sugar pumpkin. With a sweet and sour taste and warming spices, these pumpkin pickles are perfect on a holiday cheese board, or as a Thanksgiving side dish. Preserving Pumpkins If you have a sugar pumpkin or two and want to make something besides pie,…
No Bake Pumpkin Coconut Cups
These no-bake pumpkin coconut cups are an easy-to-make fall snack or treat. If you’re looking for healthy pumpkin recipes with real food ingredients, these pumpkin cups are perfect! Made with a homemade coconut butter recipe, these fall treats are vegan, gluten-free, sugar-free, and delicious! Healthy Pumpkin Treats I love pumpkin season! I know, it seems…
How to Make Pepper Jelly: Mild or Hot
Pepper jelly is an old-fashioned treat that you can easily make in your kitchen today! This pepper jelly recipe is sweet and sour, with an option for adding a kick of spice. This is a great way to use up end-of-season garden peppers. Pepper jelly has been popular since my Grandmother’s day, and for good…
Homemade Tomato Soup with Fresh Tomatoes
There is nothing quite like homemade tomato soup! This roasted tomato soup recipe is perfect for using up your surplus garden tomatoes, and is a homemade bowl full of comfort just as the weather begins to cool down. Roasted Garlic Tomato Soup This roasted tomato soup recipe is a super simple and very flavorful way…
Pickled Jalapeño Peppers: Quick Refrigerator Recipe
Make pickled jalapeño peppers to preserve your jalapeños and add some spice to your life! This pickled jalapeños recipe uses apple cider vinegar and honey for natural quick pickle deliciousness. How to Pickle Jalapeños If you are wondering how to preserve jalapeños, pickling them is an easy and delicious way to keep their spicy flavor…
Green Tomato Recipes: Cook & Preserve
These green tomato recipes will help when you have unripe tomatoes to harvest as the weather cools down before fall. If you’re buried knee-deep and wondering what to do with the abundance, try some of these methods to use and preserve green tomatoes! What to Do with Green Tomatoes By the time late summer and…
Refrigerator Pickled Green Tomatoes
Pickled green tomatoes are a super tasty way to use up your end-of-season green tomatoes. Made quick pickle style, this green tomato recipe is easy to throw together and is ready in no time! Pickled Green Tomatoes Often as fall creeps its way in with cool nights and shorter days, we are left with tons…
Refrigerator Dill Pickles (Quick Pickles)
Refrigerator pickles, sometimes called quick pickles, are a fast and easy way to preserve cucumbers, especially when you don’t have enough produce to justify canning several batches. Learn how to make refrigerator dill pickles! About Quick Pickles While fermenting is one of my favorite forms of preserving foods, every once in a while I crave…
Foraging Goldenrod (Solidago): Identification and Uses
The goldenrod plant, also commonly known as solidago, blooms in the late summer and early fall in most regions. It has notably beautiful deep yellow-gold colored flowers and is also edible and medicinal. Learn all you need to know about identifying and foraging for goldenrod and using its flowers and leaves! Wildcrafting Weeds If you…
How to Make a Yarrow Plant Salve
The yarrow plant grows commonly and is edible and medicinal. Yarrow’s benefits range from stopping blood flow from cuts to being good for dry skin. Make an herbal salve to easily access yarrow’s medicinal uses! About Yarrow Plant Yarrow grows almost everywhere and is a perennial plant in the Asteraceae family. It grows year-round in…