Harvesting & Preserving
Every year we grow more jalapeños than we know what to do with. After pickling them, making cowboy candy and saving seeds for next year’s garden, fermenting them has become another way for us to preserve the harvest. This time, instead of making our usual cayenne hot sauce, we made fermented jalapeño hot sauce with
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Every night I make myself a tea. Sometimes it’s a store-bought green tea, but most of the time it’s one of my homemade herbal tea blends. The herbs I choose nightly depend on my mood. If I’m tired I’ll make a restful tea or if I’ve noticed my brain being a little foggy (children –
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We grow cucumbers in our Zone 5 garden, but if I’m being fair, they aren’t one of our most reliable crops. We usually get some, but not enough at once for a good batch of pickles. For this batch of fermented pickles, I picked up fresh pickling cucumbers from a local farm stand. Fermented pickles
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Food is a love language. Cooking, baking, being in the kitchen with loved ones, sharing traditions with children. It’s all centered around food, family and love. Maybe you’re like me and decided to stop buying everyone gifts and instead decided to start making them things they’ll actually consume. Maybe you’re looking for inspiration – of
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If you have more fresh basil than you know what to do with, making homemade basil salt is one of the easiest ways to preserve some of that fresh basil flavour. We grow a lot of basil every year. If you want to do the same, our complete guide to growing basil from seed walks
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