For year’s I was overwhelmed at harvest time. Mostly because I would end up with all my crops and no exact plan for preserving and storage. I didn’t have answers to some of the basic questions: What goes in root cellar storage? What goes in the freezer? What needs canning? By the time the last
Root Cellar Storage: What to Save (and What to Skip) for Winter Read More »
Refrigerator pickles are the fastest way to turn a handful of cucumbers into something worth bragging about. It’s one of the first recipes I ever used to preserve food in the kitchen and I honestly can’t image my fridge without a jar of refrigerator pickles. No canner, no processing time, no worrying about headspace or
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We grow a lot of cilantro and every year, I let most of the cilantro bolt during the summer. Some of the seeds fall and reseed but the rest I collect and dry and save coriander. Here’s the good news: if you’ve ever grown cilantro, you’ve already grown coriander. They’re the same plant — cilantro
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Every August, I hit the same wall: more tomatoes than I know what to do with, and not enough hours to deal with them the “proper” way. And this week it happened again. Too many tomatoes! Not a bad problem to have, but still, it can be a lot. Roasting is how I solved that
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If you’ve ever stood in the seed aisle in February wondering why you’re paying $4 for a packet of tomato seeds when your garden was overflowing with tomatoes last August, you’re not alone. Learning to save seeds is one of the oldest gardening skills there is, and it’s a lot more approachable than most people
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Fermentation is the most recent food preservation method I’ve been obsessed with. At first, it seemed a little intimidating, but in reality I love to eat fermented food and found it easy and fun to make. If you’ve ever eaten sauerkraut, kimchi, or a truly good dill pickle, you’ve eaten fermented food. But making it
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I caught myself standing in the garden last week just… not doing anything. Not weeding, not harvesting, just standing there. Early September does that to me every year. The tomatoes are slowing down, the squash vines look tired and a little sad honestly, and there’s still plenty growing, but you can feel the season starting
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If you grow sage, you already know the real challenge isn’t getting it to grow: it’s keeping up with it. Sage can become prolofic and lasts well in the cold, but it’s still worth learning how to preserve sage for winter soups and meals. The good news is sage preserves well, and depending on how
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Sage is one of those plants that live longer then most of the other herbs, but there is still a period in the winter when I’m craving sage in the kitchen. Drying is the classic way to preserve a sage harvest, and it couldn’t be simpler. Here are three ways to do it, depending on
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If you grow sage, you know the problem isn’t getting it to grow: it’s keeping up with it. One established plant can produce far more than you’ll ever use fresh, and once it starts flowering, the flavor in the remaining leaves changes. Freezing is my go-to solution because unlike drying, it keeps that robust, peppery
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