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…
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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.
How to Preserve Cucumbers: Ferment, Can, Freeze and More!
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…
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…
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…
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…
