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Wooden Pumpkin Wooden pumpkins last for years and years, they survive heat and frost and everything else Fall throws at them. DIY wood pumpkins don’t turn rotten the day after they come home from the store, you can [paint them in any colour, and they add rustic charm and a hint of cozy to our…
There are two major types of canned tomatoes, canning tomatoes fresh and whole sometime called raw packing which is what I am about to show you, and stewed tomatoes which are cut and cooked before canning. I prefer to raw pack when canning tomatoes. Canning tomatoes does not take any special skills but it does…
Arecipe for Pumpkin Pie exactly like Grama made it. Don’t you think some things like pumpkin pie are perfect just as they are. Every Fall when the harvest starts and Thanksgiving rolls around everyone needs a great pumpkin pie recipe. I hope this becomes yours. I make my own pie filling. Sometimes I cook, scrape…
For certain recipes like this Bread and butter Pickles Recipe you typically see headings like Old Fashioned, Classic, or like Grama use to make. I am not sure how to feel about that, because this Grama is making and sharing pickles I first made as a teenage wife in the 70s. This recipe is simple,…
This saskatoon berry sauce recipe is small enough to make for a quick family treat, cook up the berry sauce in 20 minutes and drizzle over ice cream. Add a vanilla cookie and it becomes a quick and easy berry dessert fancy enough for company. Saskatoon sauce is one of the easiest berry sauce recipes…
Picking, Cleaning, and Freezing Saskatoon Berries Saskatoon berries are one of my all time favorite berries. People in the USA can call them juneberries. Other names are pigeon berries, service berries,shadbush, amelanchier but us western Canadians proudly refer to them as saskatoons. They are the same size and shape as a large blueberry, they’re sweet,…
My family loves any rhubarb recipe, so I made all sorts of different rhubarb recipes. This rhubarb crisp is one of my favorite rhubarb recipes because its easy to make, delicious and you can easily double it to feed a crowd. Rhubarb crisp is a simple, tart and sweet recipe you can make throughout the…
This post about a new staircase makeover is bittersweet. I really loved this house and these railings, and saved for two years to get them. Then decided it was best to leave this loved home for a smaller town, less debt and much bigger yard. Its a year since I first started writing this post,…
