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There are very few recipes that I LOVE, and even fewer recipes that I would share as a ‘must do’ in the canning world.  Though this recipe isn’t necessarily a canning recipe, it does come from one of the most amazing canners I know, and I will honestly...

I am half Italian, and I can remember my grandmother making sauce with only fresh items…the smells, oh my gosh the smells of the tomatoes, basil, garlic, herbs has never left my memory.
She did not can, put she always used whole fresh tomatoes as her base.  So, of course when I started canning I knew that whole tomatoes would be a key item in our canning pantry....

As homesteaders and canners we strive for a zero waste product….that magical feeling we get when we use EVERY bit of the item we are working with.  Prior to this goal of creating a zero waste food item, I gave most scraps from canning or cooking to our...

I am wrapping up a chapter in my life, and as
a mother it saddens me.
Children, children are the foundation of who you are, and that leads to who they become. There are a few children who determined their life early on, and strayed from who you taught them to be….but that’s a plan in the works between them and someone...