I tried to make Pear Jelly on Sunday while I was making Pear Sauce. I knew you could make apple jelly with the cores and peels of apples and I was pretty certain I could do this with pears. I had found a recipe on the internet for Pear Jelly that stated that pectin would not be necessary for this jelly because of the natural pectin in the pear. I had never heard of pears having pectin. I should have…
We have been a busy crew! I didn’t get as much done on the farm as I would have like, but I am content with what got done. I just need to take more pictures! Thursday night, I was at an interview. I was asked to sit on the parents committee for interviewing the superintendent candidate for our schools. I found it to be very intereresting and somewhat hard! Friday night, Shali’s and her classmates had a steak sandwich supper…
My good friend, Jessica, gave me some tomatoes, basil and peppers! What to do, what to do…hmmm…Monday night I made a sauce that I could have eaten raw before the freezer! Yum! I found this recipe my mom gave me for Freezer Tomato Sauce! This recipe was taken from the American Profile insert of the weekly newspaper and submitted by Teresa Blackburn. I have seen several similar recipes and wanted to give it a try. Freezer Tomato Sauce 16 medium…
I might have to abandon Preparedness Mondays and talk about being prepared more often. Self-sufficiency and preparedness have always been passions of mine and now has become a mindset for me. I love to share with you all what I have learned as well as my mistakes. I wanted to introduce you to a resource that will lay out food storage and planning for preparedness for you. This guide will take you step by step for what you need to…
We have been dehydrating our garden produce as well as what I bought from the Farmers Market lately. I love having dehydrated vegetables in my pantry. I have been doing a lot of onions with plans to do more as well as basil and all kinds of peppers. This was my progress so far: Hard to believe the middle jar was 4.5 onions at one time! Left jar is dried peppers and the right jar is dried basil. The first…
Great article! I am blessed to have the great support to help me, but other single parents are not so blessed. This article shows some great ways that you can come along side and support single parents without being intrusive and counterproductive. Thanks! Far Above Rubies: Single Moms Speak: My sister is a single mom with twins whose husband abandoned them when the boys were toddlers. I remember walking into my sister’s small apa…