Preserving

Ideas for how to preserve the produce you have.

  • Dehydrating,  Freeze Dryer

    Apple Chips

    I started this post back in September or October, but it has just been a crazy fall and winter so far. But I have a goal to be more consistent at posting the things we are working on, so hopefully you will hear from me more regularly. This is also my first time using the Amazon Associates program. I will get a bit of a commission if you click on the link and purchase the product from Amazon. I have always liked apple chips. Growing up we could buy them from the Church I belong to (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) for food storage. For any who…

  • Freeze Dryer,  Preserving

    Freeze Dryer

    We bought a freeze dryer! It has been so much fun. We had been thinking about it for quite a while. We kept seeing commercials from Harvest Right about their home freeze dryer. We talked about it for a long time. As you know we get a lot of produce and I like bottling things. But I feel like so many of the methods for preserving foods reduces the nutritional value. Freeze Drying is different. It preserves food and makes it shelf stable for many years without changing the nutritional value much at all. So we both really wanted to get a freeze dryer it was just a question of…

  • cooked apples
    Canning,  Growing Produce,  Preserving

    Applesauce

    I love applesauce. I love eating it. I love making it. And I really love how it makes my house smell. Cooked apples with cinnamon …mmmmm… nothing really beats that. The other major plus for me is how many apples it takes to make applesauce. If you have an apple tree you know what I am talking about. When you get a big crop of apples there is just no way that you can eat them all before they start going bad. This is what we were dealing with this year. Applesauce is a great way to use a lot of apples and make them shelf stable. Then you can…

  • Canning,  Garden

    Tomato Sauce

    We eat a lot of tomato sauce in this house. It is easy and fast. I make some kind of Italian dish at least once a week. Plus, we started having pizza and movie night every Friday and I use tomato sauce for the pizza as well. We have started planting enough tomato plants that we could keep ourselves supplied in tomato sauce without buying it from the store. That is usually about 10-12 tomato plants. That means that I make a lot of tomato sauce. So we had to come up with a good method for doing it. I think we have got it down. I have looked up…