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Grilling Made Easy with Marinades
Salmon in a soy sauce marinade My favorite time of the year is finally here – time to grill! Who doesn’t love the aroma of meat and/or vegetables coming from a grill as you walk around your...
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Easy method for freezing sweet corn
Soon there will be more sweet corn available than we can eat. I plan to freeze some so we can enjoy that good Iowa sweet corn this winter. Use the easy directions listed below after you have husked...
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Canning Carrots
Home canned carrots Are the carrots in your garden ready now? If you want to start canning carrots here are some things to remember. It takes 2 to 3 lbs of carrots, without tops, to make a quart of...
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5 tips for making your own pickles!
Home canned pickles. Pickles! It seems like everyone wants to make pickles this time of year. We get so many calls related to pickles; I will highlight just a few of the facts that we share with...
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Canning Pears
A jar of pears When I was a child my grandmother had a pasture full of pear trees. The pears these trees produced were small but of unequaled flavor to anything I have found in the grocery store. If...
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Roasted Cauliflower
Sliced Raw Cauliflower Cauliflower was one of my least favorite vegetables when I was a child. It was usually served overcooked, pale in color and under seasoned. In recent years I have discovered a...
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Time to freeze tomatoes
Blanching tomatoes. It’s getting to be that time of summer again; tomatoes everywhere. After you have eaten your fill of tomatoes it is time to start preserving them. Remember that unblemished fruits...
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Pepper Jelly
Pepper jelly Remember that pepper jelly you made last summer? The holiday season is a great time to begin using it. Spread on a brick of cream cheese and add some crackers for a simple and easy...
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Coloring sugar
It is always a fun project to get the family together to decorate cookies. An inexpensive way to add color to them is to make your own colored sugar. It’s fun, easy to do and stores well. To make your...
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“Joy of Cooking”– New Edition
A new edition of America’s favorite, classic cookbook, Joy of Cooking, rolled off the press on November 2019. This edition was nine years in the making under the guide of John Becker and wife, Megan...
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