Transferring Bar Cookies to Freezer Bags for the Freezer

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Here’s the second Weekly Kitchen Tip at gnowfglins.com. I am looking forward to receiving and sharing your tips in the future. (Hint, hint: send them to tips at gnowfglins dot com.) Transferring bar cookies to freezer bags one at a time not only takes time, but it isn’t that easy to get the cookies arranged [...]

Raw Pear Sauce, Raw Apple Sauce, For the Freezer

We are getting a bunch of apples and pears today. They’re coming from our sweet local doctor and her husband, who have an abundance. They called last week to ask if we wanted some. Yes, we do! Jeff is going to pick them up in town today, as he’s there and I’m not. Of course, [...]

Freezer Storage for Ground Nuts

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When I grind nuts — whether fine, medium-fine, or coarse meal — I do several cups at a time and store the excess in the freezer for use during the coming week(s). For some time now, I have been using quart- or pint-size glass jars to store the ground nuts, instead of plastic zipper-seal bags. [...]

Drying & Freezing Fruit

I will show you some pictures of what I’m drying. My dehydrator has been going non-stop for a week. I only have the 3 trays that came with my American Harvest Snackmaster Dehydrator, which was given to me by a friend. I posted on Craig’s List yesterday that I am looking for more of these [...]

Bread: Slice, Then Freeze

Cracked Grain Cereal Bread I have been slicing and then freezing loaves of my homemade bread. This seems to simplify things for me. I can work with frozen bread, but not unless it is sliced already. Individual slices can be pulled off a fully or partially frozen loaf, and then toasted. Or I can use [...]