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Plum Sauce

September 24, 2007 By 2 Comments

This plum sauce is great atop Chocolate Ice Cream, on our favorite breakfast porridge, Genius Breakfast Cereal, or stirred into a bowl of kefir. It is not too sweet and really tasty!

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Drying & Freezing Fruit

September 15, 2007 By 5 Comments

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 [...]

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Making Tomato Sauce

September 12, 2007 By 10 Comments

Following the directions in the Ball Blue Book, I made tomato sauce yesterday with all the organic tomatoes we were given. I ended up with 11 quarts. Since 45 pounds makes about 7 quarts, I figure I was working with 70 pounds of tomatoes. Whew! I am game for more, but now that I’ve spent [...]

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Wonderful Tomatoes

September 11, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Tomatoes! My favorite fruit. A friend has access to the abundance of extra organic tomatoes from a local farm. She gave us 3 huge boxes of them yesterday. That gives me some work to do today, making tomato sauce. I’ve never done it before. I’d love to get more of these tomatoes. She said they’ll [...]

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Chunky Spiced Pear Jam

September 5, 2007 By 7 Comments
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My friend Christina came over on Sunday afternoon. She was waiting for her husband to finish helping my husband. (They worked really hard.) She had a box full of very ripe pears. So we made jam. She was remembering some pear jam a friend had given her once and that’s what we tried to recreate. [...]

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Blackberry Jam

September 11, 2006 By 3 Comments

Finally, yesterday was the day to finish the blackberry jam, thanks to bringing home some lemons on the way home from church. The 12 pounds of berries made about 12 pints of jam, or 4 1/2 batches, following the basic recipe included in the box of Pomona’s Pectin. Our jam is not on the sweet [...]

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Miner’s Lettuce

April 26, 2006 By Leave a Comment

We are just tickled to have eaten Miner’s Lettuce tonight for dinner. It grows wild all over our property and beyond. One of the most fascinating things about it is how this western “weed” got its name. “Miners lettuce is named after the California gold rush miners who ate it to get their vitamin C [...]

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Apple Salad

February 7, 2006 By 8 Comments
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I’ve taken this salad to countless potlucks, and also served it many times when we have guests for a meal. It’s super easy and tasty. Apple Salad 6 to 8 apples, cleaned and with the peel left on (Pink Lady apples are delicious!) 1/4 cup lemon juice good water 1/4 cup raw honey, or to [...]

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