Thirteen quarts of applesauce, done. Now to think of what else to do with the other forty pounds of apples! What have you done with a harvest of apples? Send me your ideas.

  Our family loves this easy, quick recipe for pickles so I thought I’d share it with y’all. Here goes: Cucumbers for pickling 2 c. white vinegar 1/2 c. canning salt 1/2 c. sugar Dill, garlic clove peeled, onion sliced Put dill, garlic and onion in the bottom of a one gallon jar. Fill with ...

I have been making my own laundry detergent for quite some time now and I love it! It is so easy and so much cheaper than commercial detergent, costing about 1/3 of the price, making each load just pennies!  Note: I make a larger batch so I did the conversions enabling me to get the ...

While I was still in college I worked as an aide for a kindergarten teacher named Connie Fritch and every year she made this recipe with her students for their Thanksgiving Feast. She just so happens to be the same lady who started the Honey Baked Ham stores, so as you can imagine, it was ...

Or make that the freezer. Our little piggy weighed in at 350lbs live and his hanging weight was 292lbs! Just for the record, Rosie’s hanging weight was 252lbs and BlackJack was 283lbs. So as you can imagine we have been busy prepping our pork. We really wanted to try curing our own cuts as we had heard the butcher ...

Well our second batch of goat cheese did not firm up like the first, which I don’t have any photos of the first because the family devoured it. I forgot and left the second batch on the counter in the cool night air and I think it got too cold. It had a great flavor ...

Oh the yummies of summer! My neighbor, Lena, brought me two varieties of heirloom tomatoes from the local farmers market (mine still haven’t ripened yet) the other day. So I sliced them up along with some fresh mozzarella cheese, cut up a bit of basil from my garden, sprinkled salt and pepper along with a  drizzling of ...

To me, there is nothing more heavenly than the lovely smell of fresh baked bread strait from the oven. The aroma fills the house and everyone peels out from every room in hopes of gaining a piece of the the coveted reward, with loads of butter of course. I began grinding my own wheat and ...