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Spicy Zucchini Refrigerator Pickles

Spicy Zucchini Refrigerator Pickles

There’s not much that I’m not willing to try to grow in my vegetable garden. If it can even remotely survive in this climate then I will stick it in the ground. I’ve grown artichokes, eggplant, tomatillos and something called a cardoon. I will pack my rows full of tomatoes and peppers and zucchini, but I cannot stand growing cucumbers. Cucumber plants are too needy for me. ...

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Big Batch Turkey Meatballs

Big Batch Turkey Meatballs

        Everyone has a freezer. But the moment that you commit to a stand-alone deep freezer for your family home is the day that you open new doors of possibility!! With a deep freeze (or two) in your house you can take advantage of sales on meat, bread and butter. With a little extra frozen interior you can plan out and make meals more months in the future! You are only ...

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Canning/Preserving, Dinner, Leftovers, Make Ahead, Meat & Poultry, Recipes Tagged With: Family Dinners, freezer meals, freezre cooking, meatballs, turkey

Italian Stuffed Zucchini

Italian Stuffed Zucchini

    As much as I don't want it to, the end of the Summer is here. Long lazy mornings have been replaced by 6:30AM wake up calls and a race to the door before the bus gets here. Late nights watching our favorite shows or movies have been over by showers and early bedtimes. Getting back on schedule is never fun or easy, but it is something we have to prepare for nonetheless. ...

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Canning/Preserving, Dinner, Gardening, Healthy, Make Ahead, Recipes, Side Dish Tagged With: freezer meals, italian, spinach, squash, stuffed dishes, swiss chard, zucchini

10 Recipes for Fresh Strawberries!

10 Best Recipes for Strawberry Season

Strawberries are the signal that Summer is nearly here. Sweet and juicy with a brilliant red color, strawberries are at their peak in May and June. My family has been celebrating the strawberry for as long as I can remember. Strawberries have woven their way into our mealtimes for generations. This springtime berry is much anticipated in and we use them as much as we can during ...

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Bread, Breakfast, Canning/Preserving, Dessert, Dinner, Gardening, Healthy, Lunch, Make Ahead, Recipes, Salad, Side Dish Tagged With: fruit recipes, strawberry recipes

The 5 Best Seed Companies for Southern Gardens

5 Best Seed Companies for Southern Gardens

The arrival of seed catalogs in the mailbox is the first sign of Spring in my book. They usually begin to arrive at the beginning of the year and I love nothing more than curling up with a hot cup of coffee, an ink pin, and some lofty goals for the new year's garden. While I am certainly not a master gardener, I do love to tend my little plot of land every year. Each year's ...

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Filed Under: Canning/Preserving, Gardening, Tips & Tools Tagged With: best seed companies, gardening in the south, starting your own garden, where to buy seeds

The 10 Must Have Staple Recipes to Stock Your Pantry

10 Must Have Pantry Staples!

I am a HUGE fan of any recipes from scratch (if you hadn't figured that out by now). While the cost savings of making your own can be huge it's really the fact that I know EXACTLY what is going into my recipes. Also, when you live waaaayyyy out in the country you have to be creative and resourceful. And who doesn't love feeling self-sufficient? (Probably no one, but if there ...

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Filed Under: Canning/Preserving, Make Ahead, Recipes Tagged With: baking mix, homemade mixes, homemade powdered sugar, how to make your own mayo, make ahead mixes, pantry staples, premade mixes, seasonings, steak seasoning, taco seasoning

Homemade Ketchup

Homemade Ketchup

I was standing at our local farmer’s market last week talking to David from Riversong Farms and lamenting about my glut of tomatoes and my lack of storage space for the dozens of quarts I had already put up when he made the most wonderful suggestion. “Make ketchup,” he said. ”It’s really good and pretty easy to make.” It was the most wonderful idea I had ever heard. Why ...

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Filed Under: Canning/Preserving, Make Ahead Tagged With: catsup, dressing, Gardening & Other Stuff, homemade tomato sauce, how to make ketchup, ketchup, preserving, tomatoes, what to do with a lot of tomatoes

Garden Fresh Chow Chow

Garden Fresh ChowChow

  I love love love to can. If I loved cleaning as much as I love canning, my house would sparkle. It would look like all of those pictures on Pinterest where everything is neat and organized with cute little labels. So far, the only thing in the house with cute little labels is all of m canning projects. My new favorite canning project is this chow-chow. It's ...

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Canning/Preserving, Gardening, Recipes Tagged With: Appetizers, cabbage, canning, Chow Chow, cole slaw, condiments, frugality, gardening, hot dog, how-to, meatless, onions, preserving, recipes, relish, tomatoes, toppings, vegetables

Sauerkraut and how to make it

Sauerkraut and How to Make it

A large part of my mother's family was German so that meant that sauerkraut was a common site on the dinner table. I always loved that sour tang that always paired so well with meats and between my mother and I, we could eat our weight in the stuff. So when we finally moved back to the country last year, cabbage was high on the list of veggies to grow just so that I could try ...

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Filed Under: Canning/Preserving, Recipes Tagged With: cabbage, canning, canning sauerkraut, condiments, fermentation, fermenting food, how to make sauerkraut, preserving, project, sauerkraut, vegetable

Green Tomato Salsa Verde

My tomato plants have been good to me this year. While everyone else in town has been complaining about a horrible year for tomatoes, my 3 tomato plants have kept me and my family knee deep in juicy ripe tomatoes all Summer. So, now here it is October and the first frost is expected to come tonight and that means the end of my hard working tomato plants. It took me two trips to ...

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Canning/Preserving, Uncategorized Tagged With: Appetizers, canning, canning green tomatoes, cilantro, condiments, dip, garlic, green tomatoes, hot dog, lime, meatless, mexican, salsa verde, snacks, spices, spicy, tomatoes, toppings, Uncategorized, what to do with green tomatoes

Homemade Cucumber Relish

Cucumber Relish

Thity-three quarts of green beans, 9 quarts of tomtoes, 7 pints, black eye peas, 8 pints of cucumber relish, 7 pints of kosher dill pickles and 2 gallons of sauerkraut fermenting in my utility room.Our stockpile shelves that have very sparse since we moved are now busting at the seams. I have been on a canning bender. I think I may have a "problem" because I just can't ...

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Filed Under: Canning/Preserving, Gardening, Make Ahead, Uncategorized Tagged With: bell peppers, canning, condiments, condiments jelly, cucumber, frugality, gardening, light, make ahead, meatless, pantry, pickles, pickling, pre-made, preserving, relish, salsa, Southern, summertime, toppings, Uncategorized, vegetable, vegetables, vegetarian, veggies

Makin’ Bacon (Part 2)

Makin' Bacon (Part 2)

As you may recall, my hubby Blaine has joined the blogging team. Here is the thrilling conclusion to the journey into making our own bacon. So you've spent the better part of a week staring into your refrigerator and obsessing over what you have done wrong to ruin your hard won pork belly. You have flipped it every other day just like you were supposed to, but you think there ...

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Filed Under: Canning/Preserving, Recipes Tagged With: bacon, how-to, misc., smokers, smoking, Uncategorized

Chicken Stock and Chicken Noodle Soup

Chicken stock is one of those basic kitchen practices that everyone should know. It's probably THE kitchen practice to know.  It is liquid gold. It's a thing of beauty. It's full of flavor and it's delicious. It's also dang near free if you make it yourself. With Thanksgiving coming up, you are going to need a lot of chicken stock. I bet the average American spends $10 - $15 ...

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Filed Under: Canning/Preserving, Dinner, Make Ahead, Soup, Uncategorized Tagged With: budget, canning, carrots, chicken, chicken broth, chicken noodle soup, chicken stock, dinner, frozen, frugality, garlic, holiday, how-to, make ahead, one pot, pantry, pasta, soup, stock, Uncategorized, vegetables

How to Make Homemade Strawberry Jam

How to Make Homemade Strawberry Jam

I have a lot of childhood memories related to strawberry jam. My parents owned a business that involved suppling lots of factories with nuts and bolts and stuff. For Christmas, my mother and I would give all the workers a basket full of cookies, candies and strawberry preserves. They had lots of customers and during the summer, we made LOTS of preserves. 20-30 cases I think. We ...

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Filed Under: Canning/Preserving, Gardening, Recipes Tagged With: canning, condiments jelly, fruit, gardening, gifts, jam, pantry, preserves, preserving, Southern, strawberries

The Money is in the Mixes – Homemade Mixes

Homemade Mixes

When I go shopping, I shop mostly for items that are versatile and can be used in a variety of different recipes for a variety of different dishes ( except for the training pants I still buy, which are only good for one thing). I also try to spend as little as possible while still being reasonably healthy. But like most people in the world I am also busy ( or lazy on occasion) ...

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Filed Under: Canning/Preserving, Make Ahead, Soup Tagged With: canning, casserole, frugality, gifts, how-to, make ahead, meatless, mexican, misc., pre-made mix, soup, spices, tacos

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