Here are all my best food preservation tips, techniques, and recipes. You will love that they are all easy and uncomplicated.
Botulism is a real concern for anyone who cans at home. Learn how to avoid it and how to tell if you might have it in your preserves. If you have been canning at home, you might be worried about botulism. I know I have! It is a serious issue but in this post, I …
If you have a stove and a pot, you can easily render beef tallow. I’ll show you this simple method to make it white and odorless. Learning how to render tallow is such a quintessential skill in any homemaking and homesteading kitchen. It goes back to those days when most people had – or bought …
How to Render Beef Tallow – No Special Equipment Needed Read More »
In this post, I am sharing my favorite butter bell that we use to keep our butter spreadable and fresh for everyday use. Have you ever been frustrated by butter being so hard that you’re destroying a piece of bread or toast rather than spreading the butter on it? Enter the butter bell! With this …
With rosehips and elderberries, this tasty and easy-to-make oxymel is the perfect immune-boosting elixir for the fall and winter season. If you are trying to make the most out of your summer garden, you might wonder what to do with all these rosehips. I mean, you could put them in the compost or in the …
How to Make a Rosehip Oxymel | Savoring the Summer Garden Read More »
I have been successfully canning jams without the water bath method. Here’s my process, my background, and some science behind it. Yes, you read that right! In over 30 years, I have never water bath canned my jams – and I probably never will. I understand that that statement could make some of you very …
How I Have Been Successfully Canning Without The Waterbath Method Read More »
Follow this easy, step-by-step process to make delicious cold-smoked salmon at home. It is better than store-bought! My husband has perfected the method and recipe for cold-smoked salmon. We are very lucky that he not only catches the salmon off the Northern California coast by himself but also smokes it at home. It is so …
How to Cold-Smoke Salmon at Home | Step-by-Step Tutorial Read More »
Find out how easy it is to make German quark – a very versatile, fresh cheese similar to ricotta or cottage cheese. We love making cultured dairy and quark is one of them. Maybe you have visited Germany and seen it there or have heard of it. If you haven’t, let me introduce this delicious …
In this post, I am showing you 2 different simple methods of how you can easily make cultured buttermilk at home. We love cultured dairy and use buttermilk in many recipes. Sometimes, we end up with a lot of milk from our herd share. The best way to make this left-over milk last longer is …
Let me show you how easy and simple it is to make candied lemon peels. They are perfect for snacking and for your holiday baking. They say when life gives you lemons … you make candied lemon peel. Well, maybe not but you might as well! Most often, we just throw the lemon or orange …
Find out how easy and inexpensive it is to make homemade vanilla extract and vanilla sugar and we you might need both! Homemade vanilla extract is so easy to make that it’s almost not worth dedicating a whole post to it. Well, almost. I am also showing you how you can make vanilla sugar and …
