{This post is sponsored by Ball® Home Canning} Late spring and early summer means fresh strawberries, and they are always a welcome sight! Whether they are from the garden or overflowing out of baskets at the farmer’s market, I’m always trying to think of new ways to use and preserve them. Strawberries are one of…
Food Preservation
Preserve the bounty with food preservation recipes that will show you how to dehydrate, freeze, can, and pickle all of that garden fresh produce. Imagine how it will be when you can still get a taste of summer even though there is a chill in the air.
Be sure to check out the 12 different ways you can preserve apples or sample the delightfully fruity Strawberry Rhubarb Butter. Dehydrating fresh produce, like sweet peppers, is a fantastic way to preserve food especially if you're short on shelf space.
Zucchini Chips (made in a dehydrator)
If you’re like many gardeners, you just might have zucchini coming out of your ears during harvest season. I’ve been there before, and I’m all about new ways to preserve zucchini! I especially love it when I can use my dehydrator for preserving because it’s simple to use and a great way to store food….
How to Preserve Zucchini: Ferment, Dehydrate, Freeze, and Can
Some summers are zucchini summers, and we are in the midst of one right now! While last year most of our summer squash plants got eaten by squash bugs, this year we have so many zucchini that we don’t know what to do with all of them. We’ve given them away, fed them to the…
12 Ways to Preserve Apples
If you have an apple tree in your yard, then you probably have a whole lot of apples that you don’t know what to do with every fall. If you have several apple trees, then you are swimming in apples! We had an amazing apple season this year, and our tree was absolutely loaded. It…
Homemade Spiced Apple Butter
We’ve got so many apples on our tree right now, it’s ridiculous! While making apple cider with our homemade press is rewarding (and in turn gives us yummy hard cider), I wanted to do something different this time around. So, I started flipping through my Ball Canning Book, and came across apple butter. Of course!…
How to Make Refrigerator Pickles
While fermenting is my usual form of preserving foods, every once in a while I crave that vinegary taste of home canned pickles that fermented pickles don’t have. But, sometimes you don’t have the quantity of veggies to justify hauling out the canner and going through that whole process. This is where refrigerator pickles, also…
Homemade Strawberry Rhubarb Butter
So, we have this rhubarb plant that came with our new house. I was super excited when I found out what it was, because now I could make all the rhubarb things! It’s a pretty well established plant and was already going in full force when we moved in a month ago, which meant I…
12 Ways to Use and Preserve Citrus
Having a plethora of citrus is definitely not something to complain about, especially when you’re in the throes of winter. The bright and fresh fruit can really make my day when it’s cloudy and yucky outside! I am lucky enough to have in-laws that live in Florida who send us wonderful oranges and grapefruit every…
How to Make Hard Apple Cider Jelly
This is an exciting recipe for me to share because it is something that I accidentally stumbled upon two years ago due to a fermenting mishap. I love it when I have the ability to turn mistakes into something useful, and this turned out so good that I actually want to make it every year!…
How to Dehydrate Peppers for Food Storage
We’re at the end of summer, when the bounty of the season is in full swing. Time to start preserving the harvest in any and every way. Canning and freezing are the most common ways to do this, but don’t forget about dehydrating! This is a simple and effective way to preserve food for storage,…
