This summer has been very wet and cool, resulting in an abundant crop of fresh berries of every sort. We walk through a small park near our house and inevitably return to pick saskatoon berries. We have an amazing 8 gallons of fresh berries, and we could have picked twice that much. It’s been amazing….
My Hubs loves anything that’s pickled, so this year he specifically grew fresh beets to make into spiced beet pickles. Actually, we both enjoy pickled beets, so they are a standard at our house. They are so handy to have on hand for snacking, to help stretch a meal, or to add some extra flavor…
Preserve the amazing flavors of fresh tomatoes with this easy-to-follow Chunky Tomato Salsa recipe for Canning. Homemade salsa is worth purchasing market garden vegetables for, and if you grow garden tomatoes like we do, this salsa recipe is a fantastic way to preserve the bounty. Homemade salsa and a bag of tortilla chips are a…
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…
Looking for a delicious way to use up your rhubarb? Try making this easy rhubarb simple syrup! Perfect for cocktails and desserts.
For certain recipes like this Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe, you typically see headings like Old Fashioned, Classic, or Grama used to make. I am unsure how to feel about that because this Grama is making and sharing old-fashioned bread and pickles I first made eons ago. This recipe is simple, classic, time-honored, and proven….
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,…
