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Cooking and preserving traditional food from scratch is one of my passions, and it’s even better if it includes homegrown, foraged, or fermented ingredients. I prefer to use whole foods and many of my recipes use herbs, flowers, and other fresh from the garden ingredients. Sourdough is another passion, and I also have a thing for cooking in cast iron pans!

Learn how to make sourdough tortillas, roasted beets and their greens, and traditional nitrate free corned beef.

Grilled corn salad with radish and cucumber and fresh herbs, in a white bowl with a red rim, top view.

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…

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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…

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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…

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Homemade sourdough tortillas in a folded stack on a wood cutting board.

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…

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Two stacks of two jars of canned strawberry jam, with fresh strawberries on top, placed on a wooden cutting board. A bowl of fresh strawberries and a burgundy cloth surrounds.

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…

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Strawberry cobbler in a cast iron skillet, on a white surface surrounded by fresh strawberries.

Skillet Strawberry Cobbler

Skillet strawberry cobbler is the best way to use up this season’s abundance! Sometimes it seems that strawberries ripen all at once, and then have about a 4-hour window in which to eat them all at peak perfect flavor. I exaggerate, of course, but this strawberry cobbler recipe is here to help you use your…

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Cocktail glasses with a silver rim, containing a pink rhubarb cocktail drink, garnished with a candied rhubarb ribbon. On a pink surface, surrounded by pink flowers and a bottle of rhubarb syrup.

Rhubarb Gin Sour Cocktail

A rhubarb gin cocktail is in order for a summertime happy hour! This pretty pink rhubarb drink combines the tart sweetness of the rhubarb with the citrus sourness of the lemon juice which pairs perfectly with botanical gin. If you love a good gin-sour recipe, this is the perfect rhubarb cocktail for you! It’s rhubarb…

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Candied rhubarb ribbons, some are light colored with pink along the edges, and some are dark pink.

Candied Rhubarb Ribbons: Dessert or Drink Garnish

This candied rhubarb tops the list for my favorite rhubarb dessert, make it and you’ll see why! Sweeten notoriously tart rhubarb in the most beautiful and delicious way to garnish any dessert or drink this season. Rhubarb candy ribbons look like it comes from a fairy tale, and taste just as magical! Rhubarb is a…

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Rhubarb Syrup

Rhubarb syrup is a super simple way to use this season’s abundance! With only a few ingredients, this rhubarb recipe is a great method for cooking rhubarb without all of the tartness. Rhubarb simple syrup has the whimsical pink color of fresh rhubarb too! About Rhubarb Rhubarb is one of those vegetables that grow in…

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4 jars of sealed dandelion jelly, stacked in twos. On a circular wood cutting board surrounded and topped by fresh dandelion flowers, in front of a window with natural light.

Dandelion Jelly: Low-Sugar or Honey

Dandelion jelly is a spring treat in a jar, filled with sunshine! This dandelion jelly recipe is low-sugar and made with honey. If you’re looking for a dandelion recipe to keep some sunshine in your life year-round, this dandelion jelly is it! This homemade dandelion jelly is a wonderful way to capture the spring sunshine…

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