Articles tagged “Preserving The Harvest”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Preserving the Harvest: Spicy Dill Pickles By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health May 18 2009 I love anything pickled. Last summer when I was doing all my preserving, I somehow managed to let dill pickles fall off my radar. My pickled beets and green beans were both a huge success, but during the winter I was kicking my self for not making traditional dill pickles. + READ MORE

Preserving the Harvest: Pickled Beets By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Dec 1 2008 I made my pickled beets a few weeks ago, but I'm just getting around to writing about it now. Unlike soft fruits and vegetables which have such a short season and therefore have to be canned right away, hardy beets are with us for quite a long time. Beets are still in plentiful supply at my farmers' market and will be for another month or two. + READ MORE

Preserving the Harvest: Pickled Roasted Red Peppers By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Oct 31 2008 As much as I love the summer there is something wonderful about the autumn and the coolness in the air. After the indolence of lying on my deck at the cottage reading all of August, September is the month of scrambling to get myself back into order and October is the month where my routine falls into place. That means, back to my farmers' market and this year, it means canning and preserving. + READ MORE

Preserving the Harvest: Pears By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Oct 2 2008 There are two answers to the problem of too much food. Invite people to dinner and do some canning. This week all the pears ripened at the same moment and were threatening to go bad. I realized that I had to can them right away or risk losing most of the basket. + READ MORE

Preserving the Harvest: Green and Red Pepper Relish By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Sep 10 2008 Now that I'm becoming so adept at canning and preserving, I'm starting to build up a little pantry of food stuffs. It gives me a great deal of pleasure to look at all those jars lined up, ready to eat. It makes me think about my great-grandmothers and how they must have felt making sure there were plenty of provisions for their families over the winter. Of course, I'm doing small batch preserving, so the Strawberry Jam is gone, the Red Onion Relish is almost a memory as are the pickled green beans and it's still summer. Maybe there was more to keeping the preserves in the basement than food safety. It's so easy to reach into the cupboard in the sunny kitchen and open another jar of jam. But you really have to want that jam to brave the dark, creepy cold room where nobody but Granny enters unafraid, thereby ensuring that the stock of provisions lasts through the winter. + READ MORE

Preserving the Harvest: Green Bean Pickles By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Aug 28 2008 It's not like I had such an abundance of produce from my garden that I was forced to put up pickles. But I've decided that I really like this preserving business, and I like lining up those little jars and seeing the fruits of my labor. I'm getting quite a cupboard full. I wanted to try my hand at pickles and given the fact that the only really successful crop in my garden was the green beans, that's what I had to work with. + READ MORE

Preserving the Harvest: Caramelized Red Onion Relish By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Jul 22 2008 After my initial worries about preserving food, I have decided that I quite like doing it. My cupboard is starting to fill up with those jars and I'm feeling quite the little homemaker. Since I made my strawberry jam, I have made saskatoon berry jam from the saskatoons I got at the farmers' market and yesterday I made a foray into relish making. + READ MORE

Preserving the Harvest: Making Strawberry Jam By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Jul 10 2008 I finally did it. I got up the courage to actually do the cooking and processing necessary to make strawberry jam. Of course, once I had bought the basket of strawberries at the farmers' market, there was no backing out because it's just too many strawberries for two people to eat. Before I did my advance posts on preserving techniques, the equipment and the procedure, I found the whole exercise a bit daunting. + READ MORE

Preserving the Harvest: The Procedure By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Jun 30 2008 Now that I have reviewed the four ways of preserving, and the equipment I will need, I am moving ever closer to the actual event. Before I get started with a recipe I have to check over exactly what it is I need to know to make my jam or pickles. I still haven't decided what I'm going to make, it may simply depend on what I find at the farmers' market when next I'm there. + READ MORE

Preserving the Harvest: Four Ways to Make Homemade Preserves By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Jun 23 2008 When I first thought about preserving food, making jams and pickles seemed like a delightful prospect. Now that I've been reading about it, it seems more like a daunting prospect. I've been reading Small Batch Preserving by Ellie Topp and Margaret Howard which is apparently the book to use. I especially liked the "small batch" part of title. + READ MORE

Preserving the Harvest: Jerusalem Artichoke Pickles By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Jun 20 2008 We are starting a new series at Planet Green called Preserving the Harvest which will give you some ideas about what you can do with the fruits and vegetables that you've been growing yourself, or that you've picked up at the farmers' market. This is a new thing for me, so I'll be learning alongside the Planet Green readership. Like most people of my generation, I've always bought jams and pickles rather than make my own. I did make two attempts at canning about 25 years ago; I made some raspberry jam which worked beautifully and some peach preserves which blew up in the jars. After that I went back to the grocery store. + READ MORE