I have a confession to make. I’m getting tired from processing the garden. This is a fabulous place to be, because it means that I’ve been getting a decent harvest this year and am putting all kinds of tasty treasures away for winter. This week I’ve frozen a second batch […]
Category: Canning And Preserving
Onions For The Freezer
This is the first year that I have successfully grown regular onions in my garden. I’ve tried in years past, but always from seed, and I never got nice bulbs at the end of the onion. Green onions I can grow without thinking about, but bulbing onions eluded me for […]
Oven Dried Cherry Tomatoes
For years I’ve been dreaming of the perfect cherry tomato garden. YEARS! I have long wanted cherry tomatoes in every color so that I can have bowls of a beautiful rainbow to have and to share. Well, this is the year I succeeded on that front, and my tune has […]
How To Freeze Zucchini
It’s that time of year! The time of year where zucchini growers can be found on every street corner begging for people to take their over-sized vegetables. Most people will happily take one or two, but then there are SO many left. Zucchini plants can produce like gangbusters, or just […]
Pickled Peperoncini Peppers
Oh my, these are good! These are SO good! Even better when I look at these jars and realize that I grew these peppers, as well as the garlic flavoring the brine. A few weeks ago I looked at my Peperoncini plants and realized that there were an awful lot […]
Re-Post: Our Favorite Peach Salsa
Dear Tummy Treasure readers, I’ve never done this before, but today I’m republishing an older blog post. I’ve been working my way through a bushel of peaches, and this salsa is as spectacular this year as it was when we first made it five years ago. The peaches are amazing […]
Canning Season Declared Open
So this happened the other day. We totally lucked out and caught the opening day at our local strawberry patch. We lucked out even further and motivated ourselves to head over early enough in the day to get our picking done before the rain started falling and eventually close the […]
Thankful For Home Canned Soup
When I decided to break into the world of pressure canning, I was very nervous about doing so. After canning my salsas, jams and fruits for years, I just couldn’t ignore the appeal of having other kinds of home-canned foods on the shelf, ready to eat. So after much research, […]
And You Thought Canning Season Was Over!
Leftover week is going quite well so far. Last night I made a delicious pot of soup using leftover crudite veggies, turkey, wild rice and frozen corn on the cob. Lunch the last two days for the kiddos has been leftover BBQ cocktail sausages wrapped in biscuit dough- kind of […]
Whirlwind Preserving Season!
Wow! My kitchen has been fairly non-stop for a good month or so. Every spare moment I had was spent preserving this or that. Jams, jellies, salsas, tomatoes, peaches, pickles, pears, cherries, the list goes on and on! I feel so blessed to have these mountains of homemade preserves on […]
Green Tomato Pickles
Cold arrived early this year in the Tummy Treasure gardens. Though our first REAL cold day seems to be today, the ripening in the garden seemed to all but come to a halt at the end of September. Where I was walking out to the garden and picking a bucketful […]
Time To Put The Canner Away?
It could be. Though, I said that at the beginning of October, and since then I’ve put up nearly 25 quarts of tomatillos, tomatoes and assorted green tomato pickles. So who knows what a few more days will bring. I AM still on the prowl for some good deals on […]