Preserving

We have been the happy recipients of cherries! Lots of cherries! We have processed at least 50kg (110lbs) of cherries in the last few days. My fingers are an awful…

Today I preserved spinach from my garden. Last fall I planted Tyee spinach and it survived the winter. It was such a successful experiment that I plan on doing it…

Canning pears is a labour of love. It is by far the most time consuming of my canning projects. I do it because we love to eat home canned pears,…

As a child, I have distinct recollections of eating canned pears that were preserved by my mother. Sweet, soft and totally irresistible. I am always amazed how food can affect emotions…

To most, pressure canning seems like a dangerous and complicated task. Something like detonating a series of fireworks without getting singed. There are stories that feed the fear of pressure canning.…

Around this time last year we were hard at work picking and pressing apples to make apple cider. With the recent passing of my Hubby’s grandmother our apple picking plans…

In my perfect preserving world, everything I’d preserve would be organic, locally grown and cheap (or free). Living in the North makes it difficult to get certain fruit locally, never mind organic…

This past weekend we went to the local u-pick and scrounged up 4 lbs of raspberries. The bushes were pretty picked over by the time we arrived. Some deep bush diving was…

I waffled on this one. I wanted to preserve cherries, Sweetpea got sick so I didn’t want to anymore, then I came across some beautiful Okanagan cherries at the farmers’…