Peach butter is like apple butter. But sunny and peachy keen.
Today’s recipe is slightly modified from Pick Your Own, a wonderful resource for great basic canning recipes as well as information on freezing produce and finding pick-your-own farms. However, we halved the recipe, reduced the sugar and added a little extra spice.
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We love peach jam at our house. Likewise, it’s a great way to preserve summer fruit to enjoy for months to come. The process is very similar for many fruits. Most canning recipes for fruit include adding sugar. We like to use a low-sugar recipe and pectin for jam making. This means we aren’t adding quite so much sugar to our diets and the jam has more of that delicious fruit flavor!
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Decadent. Delicious. Peach simple syrup has a variety of tasty uses. Not to mention, you can process it in a canner to use in winter for wistful reminiscences and anticipation of sweet, juicy, relaxing, warm summer days.
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It’s midsummer and therefore peach season! The Peach Truck travels our way a couple of times each summer, so we took advantage of the opportunity to preserve their deliciousness and do a short series on what to do with a box of peaches from The Peach Truck. The absolute easiest way to preserve peaches or any fruit for that matter is to freeze it. Let’s start freezing peaches!
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This iced tea tastes better than the international coffee chain version, plus making it at home makes it cheaper and better for you.
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Growing garlic is so easy, even I can do it! I bet you can, too!
There are two types of garlic, but many varieties.
Hardneck varieties have larger cloves, but fewer per head, develop a flower stalk also called a scape, can be easier to peel, produce better in colder climates, don’t store as long. This type will have cloves that develop around a hard stalk that runs up the middle of the head.
Softneck varieties have more but smaller cloves per head, don’t develop a scape, can store longer
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Just like it sounds, broth made from chicken bones. With just a couple of necessary ingredients, when bone broth is made in the crockpot, it couldn’t get much easier.
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Frittata is a fancy word for omelet or crustless quiche. Except it’s really easy and there’s no flipping and flopping and slopping. Adding broccoli, ham, and cheddar cheese to it makes it delicious!
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This year, we are going to try a new approach to starting seeds, hopefully, with more success.
We have used hex cell starter trays but found they get to be too small too soon.
We have also planted seeds in a few spots per pot in larger pots. However, we found it more difficult to have a place for them to be put in the sun but out of the way of mischievous house pets….
While we have started plants from seeds in years past, we have not always had luck. Last year, for example, we used some existing shelving in our mudroom. We thought that room was perfect with the many windows on the southern side of the house. However, the room is cold because it is just an old framed in porch has the door we use to go in and out of the house. Also, in this part of the world, the sun isn’t exactly reliable in shining every day this time of year. We did purchase seed warming pads, which helped. But the biggest problem was that our indoor cats decided to eat most of the starts that popped up! We did buy organic starts locally, but were limited to what was available a bit later in the season.
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