Today, we’re going to be preserving another summertime favorite by freezing corn. Freezing vegetables does have an extra step compared to freezing fruit, but it’s still pretty easy.
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Peach Barbecue Sauce
As we continue discovering what we can do with a box of peaches and revealing What’s in the Mason Jar, we arrive at Peach Barbecue Sauce. A little sweet, a little spicy and a little tangy.
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Tour Our Summer Garden
The summer is still hot, but we’re already looking toward fall. Join us for a tour of our summer garden. Some of the plants in our garden have been harvested completely, some are finishing up and looking a little sad in the summer heat and unusually dry weather, but we still have some we’re very much looking forward to harvesting. Find out what we planted for the first time this year, what did well for us, what didn’t quite work as planned. In addition, what will be in our fall garden.
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Peach Butter
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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Peach Jam
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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Peach Syrup
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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Freezing Peaches
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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Our Grow Lights Set-up for Plant Starts
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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