You may have tried salsa verde (green salsa) at your favorite Mexican restaurant or from a jar, but why not try canning tomatillo salsa at home?
FOOD PRESERVATION
Whether you have a garden abundance or support your local farmers market, there are a number of food preservation methods that will allow you to store food to last through the winter. There’s nothing better than pulling a jar of fresh applesauce out of the panty in the middle of a cold winter. It’s like summer in a jar. And tomato sauce from the garden? So much better than the store bought stuff.
But canning isn’t the only way to preserve food for long-term storage. In addition to water bath and pressure canning, dehydrating fruits and vegetables, fermentation, and freezing are other methods to try. Start with the food preservation method that seems most doable to you. Soon you’ll have a pantry full of produce to enjoy in the off-season.
How to Can Peaches: Step by Step Canning Guide
These lightly sweetened peaches will rock your pantry! This recipe makes a shelf-stable product rich with summertime flavor.
How to Make Raspberry Puree (Fresh, Freezing, or Canning)
Transform this favorite summertime fruit into a raspberry puree for topping cakes, pouring on ice cream, or swirling into drinks.
How to Dry Parsley (4 Methods)
Dehydrating fresh parsley is an easy way to stock your spice cabinet with this versatile herb to add flavor to a variety of recipes.
Canning Plums (Water Bath Recipe)
Canning plums fresh from the orchard preserves the flavor so you can enjoy it all year round. This is an easy recipe for beginning canners!
How to Make Strawberry Puree (with Canning Instructions)
Fresh berry season is a great time to make a batch of strawberry puree. Make some to enjoy right away or process in a water bath for a shelf-stable product.
Making Apricot Jam: Freezer or Canning Recipe
Fresh apricots are a summertime favorite. Make this as apricot freezer jam or use a water bath method to preserve the jam for the pantry.
How to Dry Green Onions
Keep the flavor of scallions at your fingertips when you start drying green onions. It’s a great way to preserve them and eliminate waste.
How to Make Pineapple Jam (Safe Canning Recipe)
This small batch recipe for homemade pineapple jam results in a delicious tropical fruit spread perfect for spreading on toast.
Aloha! I’m Kris Bordessa, author, hobby farmer, gardener, chicken wrangler, and eternal experimenter.
If you’re ready to shake up your pantry routine and shift from boxed to homemade, be sure to check out Attainable Sustainable Pantry (National Geographic Books), launching in March 2025.
My earlier book, Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living (also from National Geographic Books) was awarded the best how-to book of 2020 by the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Here at Attainable Sustainable, I encourage readers to embrace a more self-reliant lifestyle, one small step at a time.
