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Preserving

Category: Preserving

Preserve your harvest AND stay away from metal cans by canning your own tomatoes! Learn how to safely can tomatoes, plus let's bust the myth about heirloom varieties and acidity once and for all! (Hint: you NEED to pick an acid no matter what!)

How To Can Tomatoes — 16 Ways!

Array of beautiful tomatoes, some whole, some sliced, in a variety of different colors: red, yellow, green, and orange.

50+ Tomato Recipes (from breakfast to dinner)

Dehydrate Your Way To Green Powder | I know I can freeze my greens, but I have an even better way of preserving the them -- I turn them into a nutritious green powder which I can then add to countless dishes (even on the sly). Here's how to dehydrate greens into powder! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Dehydrate Your Way To Green Powder

Small glass jar of cultured butter.

How To Make Cultured Butter

Compound Butter {butter gets dressed up!} | If you’ve ever had honey butter, you’ve had compound butter. Compound butters are easy to make and they freeze well so they're handy whenever you need a quick flavor boost, an easy sauce, or a way to dress up simple food for company. Here are a myriad of flavor combinations and ideas for using them. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Compound Butter {Butter Gets Dressed Up!}

Jerky strips.

Homemade Jerky (ground or muscle meat, beef or venison!)

"Please make them crunchy!" said my husband...when he asked me to make him this treat he really loves. The jury is definitely *not* out on these chocolate covered almonds. They are fabulous! This recipe is a win-win-win. Yummy, healthier than any you could buy, and super crunchy!

Sea Salt & Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds {Super Crunchy!}

Cocoa Almond Crumbles | Combining almonds and chocolate was one of my many culinary dreams last fall. This combination of cocoa, nuts, and coconut is sure to please everyone. Use for easy snacks, desserts, or breakfasts. Relish this crunchy, grain-free, gluten-free, dairy-free delight, and/or enjoy gifting to others! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Cocoa Almond Crumbles

Must. Have. Croutons... It may seem silly -- and even slightly picky -- of me, but I just can't eat a salad without them! Making these sourdough croutons in the dehydrator couldn't be easier!

Homemade Sourdough Croutons In The Dehydrator

KYF #164: "The Cave" Homemade Cheese Cave & Fermenting Chamber | Karen and her family are home fermenters living in a modern world where houses don't have cellars or cheese caves. And now they are bringing us The Cave: a chamber that can heat, cool, humidify, and circulate air for making cheeses, dry curing meats, and fermenting almost anything. | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/164

The Cave” Homemade Cheese Cave & Fermenting Chamber (KYF164)

Spinach is one power-packed veggie that I love adding to regular and green smoothies. There's just 1 problem: spinach has lots of oxalates. Here's how to lower oxalates and use spinach in smoothies without the pain of steaming it every time.

The Best Way To Add Spinach (or any greens!) To Your Smoothies

Summertime is for reveling in the heavenly flavors of ripe summer fruit, is it not? Based on the traditional French method of making apricot preserves and apricot butter, I look forward to making this recipe each summer. I hope you enjoy it as thoroughly and delightedly as I do.

Heavenly Traditional French-Style Apricot Preserves

How To Dehydrate Zucchini & Summer Squash | For today's seasonal recipe round-up, I'd like to show you how to dehydrate zucchini and summer squash! Preserving an abundant harvest frugal idea. The two best ways I've found to dehydrate zucchini are: shredded and thinly sliced. The thinly sliced become zucchini chips and they're really good! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Dehydrate Zucchini & Summer Squash

How To Pressure Can Green Beans (Raw-Pack Method) | We can't sacrifice food safety. I consider some quick canning methods to be unsafe. Not the raw pack method, though -- it's both safe and time-saving. Learn how to pressure can green beans using the raw-pack method! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Pressure Can Green Beans (Raw-Pack Method)

Weighting Game | My son Kellen is guest posting in my place, sharing the findings from his recent science-fair project, for which he consulted the GNOWFGLINS Dehydrating eBook and followed lessons and instructions from the GNOWFGLINS Dehydrating eCourse. Kellen writes and sets out to test: "I hope to show with my science fair project that dehydrating the allergy-free foods I plan to carry on a backpacking trip will make my overall load significantly lighter." | GNOWFGLINS.com

Weighting Game

How To Organize Your Pantry {with glass jars!} | I have an obsession with glass jars and there isn't a help line for that. I don't know what it is about seeing all those beautifully God-made organic foods -- neatly lined up in the pantry -- that puts a smile on my face. Interested in using glass to organize the pantry? Here's how to get started. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Organize Your Pantry {with glass jars!}

chewed box

Storing Fruit

Real Food Family Preparedness with KerryAnn Foster (KYF048)

Real Food Family Preparedness with KerryAnn Foster (KYF048)