To grow green onions, you can do like I did and plant the bulbs from store-bought green onions directly into your garden. Or you can buy bulbs from your local garden center or a seed catalog. Catalogs have a huge variety of onion bulbs, including bunching onion varieties, to suit your ...
It’s also possible to freeze whole cucumbers straight out of the garden. Wash the cucumbers; peel them if you want. Remember, when you thaw them, peeling will be hard because of the texture. Put them in a plastic bag or another airtight container, and stick them into the freezer. I d...
All your hard work is paying off with a bountiful harvest. Fresh produce is filling your garden, countertops, and refrigerator while the garden keeps producing more. Preserve some of your harvest to enjoy throughout the winter with some tried-and-true or updated variation of food preservation te...
Freshly prepared homemade spaghetti sauce is a beloved canning recipe that combines the natural sweetness of tomatoes with the depth of flavors from onions, bell peppers, garlic, and tomato paste. The slow-cooked mixture is infused with an array of herbs and spices, allowing for a rich and sa...
Maybe you own a garden and know the problem: Suddenly everything ripens at once and you have buckets of fresh fruit and vegetables to consume. Or maybe you just bought too much food and cannot use it all in time.Instead of throwing away the excess food, you should rather preserve it!
in advance of summer. If you make canned jars of lemonade concentrate ahead of time, you can quickly pop one in the fridge in the morning (along with a can of seltzer) before heading out for a day of work in the garden. By lunchtime, you have a cold drink ready in about 2 seconds...
As the garden explodes with vegetables, consider dehydrating herbs, peppers, carrots, potatoes, green beans, and onions. Char peppers for smoky flavor: You can even char sweet bell peppers or freeze them raw and unpeeled. Ripe, roasted peppers quicklu char in direct heat. ...
Best for:cucumbers, onions, cabbage, green beans, carrots, zucchini, radishes, beets. How to:trim and cut vegetables and pack firmly into clean pint-sized jars, adding herbs, spices, garlic or peppercorns for flavoring, and leaving 1/2 inch of space from the top of the jar. Pour boiling...
For my final project in the Los Angeles Master Food Preserver Program I attempted to see how many ways I could preserve the abundant pads of the prickly pear cactus that grows in our front yard.
Not all produce needs to be blanched before freezing. Berries, onions, andherbscan be trimmed and placed directly into the freezer. Otherwise, here are some recommending blanching times: Once the fruits and veggies are blanched and chilled, dry them off and place into a freezer bag, air tight...