Easy Fermented Jalapeños Recipe

Preserving

* This article contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure.   When we first started growing jalapeños, we did so with the intention of using them to make homemade salsa. We figured we’d be lucky to get enough jalapeños to...

How to Can Homemade Tomato Sauce

Preserving

* This article contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure.   When it comes to home-canned food, tomato sauce reigns supreme in terms of versatility. I don’t know about you, but in our house we eat a lot of tomato-based...

How to Use A Pressure Canner Safely

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* This article contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure.     Canning and preserving food goes hand-in-hand with homesteading and self-sufficiency. And for the most part, it’s pretty safe and straight-forward....

How to Make Kombucha At Home

From-Scratch Recipes, Preserving

  * This article contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure.   I’m not gonna lie: when I first decided to learn how to make kombucha at home, I was feeling pretty intimidated. I had never done any fermenting before...

4 Ways to Preserve Herbs At Home

Preserving

Every year without fail, I wait until the last possible moment to harvest and preserve everything out of our garden, including my herbs. Sure, I harvest things throughout the season to eat or enjoy fresh, but when it comes to preserving (as with many other things),...

Homemade Herb Butter (aka. Compound Butter)

From-Scratch Recipes, Preserving

This homemade herb butter is versatile and easy to make. Plus, it’s a fantastic way to preserve your fresh summer herbs to enjoy all year long! * * * I don’t know about you, but where we live, summer ended pretty abruptly this year. One minute the sun was still...