It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for [...]
Entries Tagged as 'canning/preserving'
Preserving Pumpkin (and 2 Recipes)
October 20th, 2009 · 10 Comments
Tags: bread, canning/preserving, garden, recipes
Seed Saving for the Faint of Heart
October 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments
It’s the end of the harvest season, and although a great deal of my mind and energy is turned to enjoying the fruits of this year’s produce (today I’m canning applesauce and freezing pureed sugar pie pumpkin) already I find myself dreaming of the spring garden. Part of this impulse, I realize, is inspired by [...]
Tags: Uncategorized, canning/preserving, garden, urban farming
A New Way to Freeze Cherry Tomatoes: Tasty Herb-roasted Bites
October 3rd, 2009 · 10 Comments
We’ve had a great tomato year–about as good as it gets in Seattle. A hot summer, and warmth into the beginning of October (last year the green tomatoes practically withered on the vine in early August). But autumn is truly with us now, and as I pick tomatoes this Harvest Moon morning, it is with [...]
Tags: canning/preserving, garden, recipes
Drying Food in the Dehydrator You Already Own: Your Car
August 25th, 2009 · 32 Comments
I’m on the road this week doing some author appearances so The Tangled Nest continues to be tended by guest bloggers. Today, a recent experiment by my husband Tom (aka Bikejuju):
Thanks to our unseasonably hot dry summer, Seattle’s fruit trees are exploding with plums, pears, apples, figs, fruit of all kinds. Last week a friend [...]
Tags: canning/preserving, fruit trees
DIY Rubber Stamp Jam Labels
July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
Folks have been asking about the labels on our jam jars.
We made them from Speedy Carve–an eraser-like art medium for creating your own rubber stamps. Our friend Audrey showed us how, and this was one of our first efforts. We think they’re pretty darn cute. If you don’t have a crafty friend to teach you, [...]
Tags: art, canning/preserving, craft
Homemade Jam: It’s Worth the Mess
June 30th, 2009 · 4 Comments
To my mind, there are few sounds on earth more satisfying than the sweet plink-plink-plink that canning jars make as they seal. Musical. And filled with the promise of summer flavor for my family in the dead of winter.
I have a kid who eats “Deep PB and J” about 300 days out of the year, [...]
Tags: canning/preserving
Picking Strawberries
June 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Saturday we all journeyed to the fertile Kent valley, south of Seattle, to pick strawberries at Lazy River Farm–a small, family-owned field of berries and flowers.
The favored variety here is Benton, a sweet, flavorful berry well-suited to the Northwest climate and soil. There is something about picking them yourself that makes them even yummier than [...]
Tags: canning/preserving
