Knowing how to preserve cucumbers is an important skill set if you’ve got an abundant cucumber plant. Pickles, of course, are a top choice for preserving cucumbers. But there are many ways from freezing cucumbers to infusing to dehydrating that will add delicious variety to your pantry! When it’s cucumber season, sometimes you’re knee-deep in…
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Queen Anne’s Lace Fritters
Make these Queen Anne’s lace fritters for a delectable late-summer appetizer. These flower fritters can be made sweet or savory depending on your mood. Queen Anne’s lace flowers are edible and delicious, and this Queen Anne’s lace recipe is a great way to make use of them when they’re growing rampantly in your yard! Each…
Refrigerator Bread and Butter Pickles
Pickles are a necessity for a happy life, and these refrigerator bread and butter pickles are mega delicious and super easy to make. With a taste that is vinegary, a little sweet, and a little salty, this bread and butter pickle recipe is a perfect way to preserve summer cucumbers. Bread and Butter Pickle Folklore…
Grilled Corn Salad with Fresh Herbs
Make grilled corn salad with fresh herbs this summer! With veggies and herbs growing in abundance, you need a fresh, herbed, cool summer corn salad to add to any meal. Easy to put together with optional cheese, this corn salad is flavorful and perfect for a warm day. In truth, I’m not a corn lover…
Dilly Beans: Recipe for Canning Green Beans
Make dilly beans for the best way to use your surplus green bean harvest. Made with fresh dill and fragrant garlic, these pickled green beans will blow your mind. If you need some old-fashioned pickled green beans in your life, can some of these dilly beans for the pantry! Pickled green beans are a staple…
Fresh Peach Pie: Homemade Recipe for Peach Season
A fresh peach pie is a pinnacle dessert for a delicious late-summer peach season treat! Real peaches offer flavor to this peach pie filling that is as nostalgic as it perfect. With a homemade pie crust and spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, this is a peach time recipe you’ll make every year! During mid to…
Plantain Salve for Itchy Bug Bites and Rashes
Plantain salve is an easy-to-make herbal remedy that works wonders to soothe a variety of skin ailments, particularly itchy skin. Plantain herb is easy to find, forage, and use in this simple and accessible salve recipe! About Plantain While often seen as a common weed, the plantain plant is actually an amazingly useful herb that…
Foraging Queen Anne’s Lace: Identification, Look-alikes, and Uses
Queen Anne’s lace is a pretty flower you’ve likely seen growing in fields and along roadsides your whole life. Also known as wild carrot, this delicate-looking beauty is edible and medicinal. Queen Anne’s lace flower has rich folklore, and distinct identifying factors to go with it. Easy to find, important to identify properly, and with…
Homemade Sourdough Tortillas
Many years ago, when I first started making my own sourdough, I decided that I must put some sourdough starter in ALL the things. This was a good thing because sourdough only makes things better! When I first made the leap to make sourdough tortillas, my mind was blown! Sourdough Discard Recipe I had been…
Homemade Strawberry Jam: Low-Sugar or No Sugar
It’s strawberry season and the best time for homemade strawberry jam! This low-sugar or no-sugar strawberry jam with pectin is easy to make and keeps the delicious flavor of summer strawberries in your life all year long. There’s nothing quite like ripe strawberries, their flavor holds distinct lifelong summer memories for me. The best way…