There is something extra-special about homemade, right? I love peaches and salsa, too. Now that I found a great recipe in the New Canning Book by Ball for "Summer Corn & Peach Salsa", that

I found some diced apples that I had put up in the freezer last November. Well, they needed to become something delicious, so I made a triple batch of Apple Bread to share with all my neighbors. Apple

I needed to make room in the freezer for more meals, and I had three turkey carcasses, chicken bones and feet, plus many bags of vegetable scraps that were taking up an entire shelf. Since it is so cold

Aaaand we're off!

It has been too cold to work outside in the gardens; I took advantage and decided to stock up on freezer meals. I sent hubby to the grocery store to buy a lot of chicken breasts to make different meals.

The biggest energy disruption keeps escalating as the Strait of Hormuz crisis spreads into fuel shortages, refinery explosions, and supply chains breaking down across multiple countries. At the same time,

This one is an update on the ill fated cabbage plant from this post back in October of last year - five months ago. The cover photo is its condition now. from Oct. 2025 This one lived on my front terrace

At the end of the growing season and processing so many vegetables, I decided to put the last of the hot peppers into the freezer. Now that winter is in full swing and the holidays are over, I'm taking

Electrical outages are very common place in the summer here in Buenos Aires. I'm usually pretty prepared in that way because I have three electric vehicles, two unicycles and an electric motorcycle. They

The last of the cucumber plants have been pulled out of the garden. I had so many cucumbers this summer and made two different types of relish and some sweet pickle spears for the #pantry. Chard Red Onion

When August comes around, the gardens are already producing very well and that is when I pull out the canners for preserving. You will find me every morning #prepping food to process it into something

Work season ended for me around April. Much to my resignation, cold weather and polyester resin just don't work well together. I need at least 15 degrees celcius to work with polyester resin, anything

It is too hot to be outside gardening, so instead I decided to start cooking down all the vegetable scraps I had frozen over the past few months. I pulled out the big roaster and emptied all the scraps

Game Mr Prepper

When it's raining and too cold to garden, yup, I pulled out the canner and made "Spicy Pork". I had these two pork loins taking up space in the freezer, so I thawed them and preserved them for

February is a great month to get some deep cleaning done throughout the house. This past weekend I took 2 days to thoroughly clean and organize the small bedroom/second pantry. I used to use this room

It has been a very cold week here in western, N.Y. and plenty of snow has fallen. I found half a jar of Kalamata Olives in the back of the refrigerator, and I had a few small potatoes that had to be used.

I've finally taken the plunge and made a large batch of Vanilla Extract. It has been something that I wanted to do for years now and I never got around to it. I started the extract on January 7th and can

As we go forward, it will become more and more a priority to make sure you have good food. We no longer can rely on the grocery store.

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