Category Archives: canning

pizza in the solar oven

Posted on May 9, 2020 by

  This is a premade, gluten free crust and standard sauce, pepperoni and mozzarella cheese. solar oven preheated to about 225 you can see the right side of the oven is still in shade. its 10:30am my pizza pan is … Continue reading →

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catching up

Posted on April 9, 2020 by

Its been forever since I’ve posted and figured might as well catch up here Last year’s garden was a bust, and by the end of the year, with no rain, and no water left in the water storage tanks, didn’t … Continue reading →

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getting ready

Posted on October 13, 2018 by

its been a strange and busy year.  A new shed in the eastern garden to house one of the Yeti power supply units I use for the pump that is used to water that area from the water tank.  plus … Continue reading →

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canning

Posted on September 25, 2018 by

garden was lousy this year, and my holiday presents for the neighbors usually include some preserves from the garden.  This year, red onions at the farmer’s market were plentiful so for the first time, pickled onions.  The tall jars are … Continue reading →

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todays hack

Posted on March 13, 2018 by

Fried egg on a biscuit.  Now that I’m gluten free, my husband has to live with store bought  biscuits.  It happens that a large canning ring is the exact same size as a Pillsbury Grand.  Grease the inside well, screw … Continue reading →

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dehydrated rice

Posted on January 28, 2018 by

Had tried an experiment where I dehydrated some cooked brown rice to see how it would keep long term.  We’re not fans of white rice here and sometimes you just don’t have time to cook the brown – for one … Continue reading →

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dehydration experiments

Posted on November 4, 2017 by

  on the left is cooked dried brown rice.  Rehydrated one jar tonight for dinner, took awhile, 30-45 minutes.  but was fine. Other jar will be kept in pantry for awhile to see if it goes rancid or anything. on … Continue reading →

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follow ups

Posted on September 21, 2017 by

After nearly 3 weeks, today took the fermenting lid off the sauerkraut, and it tastes, just like sauerkraut.  so into the fridge it went. and for lunch, reconstituted one of the “squash leather”.  Tore up it up smaller than in the … Continue reading →

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sauerkraut, I hope

Posted on September 5, 2017 by

Made one batch of sauerkraut awhile back and it came out great.  FINALLY got around to making another and it instantly went moldy and a weird color.  Thought it might have been because I used fresh (farmer’s market) cabbage, and … Continue reading →

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Tuna harvest has begun

Posted on August 16, 2017 by

Tuna is the name for the fruit of the pickly pear cactus!! Prickly pear (Opuntia) grows almost all over the United States, even in the snow belts.  We had a plant where we lived in New Jersey.  As the climate … Continue reading →

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