Homemade spiced apple butter with maple syrup is such a wonderful way to preserve apples! It’s so fresh and flavorful, and the individual jars make the perfect homemade holiday gift. It’s delicious on sourdough toast or to incorporate in your other favorite fall baked goods. This apple butter is an easy, super flavorful canning recipe…
Food Preservation
Preserve the bounty with food preservation recipes that will show you how to dehydrate, freeze, can, and pickle all of that garden fresh produce. Imagine how it will be when you can still get a taste of summer even though there is a chill in the air.
Be sure to check out the 12 different ways you can preserve apples or sample the delightfully fruity Strawberry Rhubarb Butter. Dehydrating fresh produce, like sweet peppers, is a fantastic way to preserve food especially if you're short on shelf space.
How to Oven Roast Hatch Chile Peppers
Learn how to oven roast green chile peppers to throw a whole lot of flavor and a little bit of heat into your meals. Hatch green chile peppers have a short season from late summer to early autumn, and are perfect for preserving. Literally get them while they’re hot and enjoy them all year round!…
Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce: Quick and Easy Recipe for Summer
This roasted cherry tomato sauce is a great way to use up all of those cherry tomatoes in your garden. Simple to make and delicious, this cherry tomato recipe is one to make every summer. Use some now and freeze more for later! How to Use Up Cherry Tomatoes From the Garden If you grow…
Quick Refrigerator Pickled Pepperoncini Peppers
Refrigerator pickles are a quick and delicious way to preserve the summer harvest, but you don’t have to stick to pickled cucumbers – there are many vegetables you can use, like pepperoncini peppers! This recipe for quick refrigerator pickled pepperoncini peppers will become a new favorite! Pepperoncini Peppers for Pickling When our pepperoncini plant…
How to Make Refrigerator Dill Pickles
Refrigerator pickles, sometimes called quick pickles, are a fast and easy way to preserve the summer harvest, especially when you don’t have enough produce to justify canning several batches. Learn how to make refrigerator dill pickles! Cucumber Refrigerator Pickles While fermenting is my usual form of preserving foods, every once in a while I crave…
Homemade Strawberry Rhubarb Butter
This homemade strawberry rhubarb butter is easy to make and a delicious way to use rhubarb. Strawberries and rhubarb are a perfect combination and cook down to a lovely butter that is tart and sweet. I use honey as the sweetener to make this strawberry rhubarb butter even better! Using Rhubarb in Spring We have…
12 Ways to Preserve Citrus: Drying, Canning, Fermenting and more!
Citrus season is short, but so delicious! When citrus is abundant, learn how to use the best of the harvest, and the many ways to preserve lemons, limes, oranges, and all of the other citrus. Get recipes for canning, preserving, using the zest, and so much more. Read on for 12 ways to use and…
Dehydrated Pumpkin Pie Leather Roll Ups
These dehydrated pumpkin roll ups taste just like pumpkin pie but without all the sugar! Made with just fresh roasted pumpkin, apples, and spices, pumpkin leather roll ups are a delicious way to celebrate fall. Kids love them too! The Ultimate Guide to Preserving Vegetables Book I got this recipe for pumpkin pie roll ups…
No Sugar Apple Jelly: Canning Recipe (Low Sugar or Honey Option)
{This post is sponsored by Ball® Fresh Preserving} Fall is the time for apples, and if you have an apple tree then that means a lot of apples! Even with just one tree in our backyard, we have so many apples that I have to preserve them in one way or another. This no sugar…
12 Ways to Preserve Apples: Canning, Freezing, Drying + More!
When it’s fall and you have an apple tree, you may be wondering how to preserve apples for the rest of the year. Here are 12 methods for preserving apples! 12 Ways to Preserve Apples If you have an apple tree in your yard, then you probably have a whole lot of apples that you…
