These fermented sugar snap peas are a great addition to your home preservation plans. When your peas are going off, be sure to make up several jars – you’ll love them.
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.
Fermented Beet Sauerkraut
Beet sauerkraut with red cabbage is an easy recipe to ferment and it’s so good for you. Here’s how to make it at home with garden fresh produce.
Water Bath Canning: Step by Step Guide to Getting Started
Preserving foods using the water bath canning method allows you to create shelf-stable canned goods at home, and it’s perfect for beginners. Here’s how to do it safely.
Your Guide to Vinegar: The Best for Pickling, the Sneaky Labels, and How Long it Lasts
Vinegar is a key component in making refrigerator pickles and many canning recipes. Choose the proper type for a safe, shelf stable product or for flavoring meals.
Easy Pear Butter Recipe for Canning
This pear butter recipe can be made on the stovetop or in a slow cooker. It’s a safe canning recipe great for adding to the pantry.
Fermented Pumpkin: a Twist on Preserving Squash
For an unusually flavorful way to preserve pumpkin and add probiotics to your diet, try this pumpkin recipe with cardamom seeds for a surprising snack!
Try this Easy Honey Maple Fig Jam Recipe
This easy fig and ginger jam recipe starts with fresh figs & is sweetened with honey & maple syrup. This fig spread is a snap to make in a slow cooker!
Homemade Nectarine Jam Recipe
Use sweet summertime nectarines to make up a batch of nectarine jam for your morning toast! Can it using safe methods for a shelf-stable addition to your pantry.
Easy Homemade Cherry Syrup
Adding the flavor of cherries to drinks and baked goods is easy when you make up a batch of this sweet cherry syrup.
Aloha! I’m Kris Bordessa, author and certified Master Food Preserver, hobby farmer, gardener, chicken wrangler, and eternal experimenter.
My book, Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living (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.
