Category: Preserving

Kitchen Solutions: Canning Jar Labels

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This year, I’ve decided, is all about sharing the good stuff. There is great delight in finding the perfect solution for something that has been nagging, so I’m going to share some of the kitchen tricks I’ve come up with. Feel free to chime in with solutions you’ve found or—even… Read More

Making Apple Chips

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I’ve told you about our pears and our little orchard, but I haven’t yet told you about the apples. This is Washington State. Of course we have apples. I was gone last fall for the apple harvest, but my mother called me in California to ask if she could use… Read More

Orchard Pear Muffins

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Along with the garden, we got some fruit trees. We didn’t realize how many fruit trees there were at first, because some of them were covered in blackberry vines. At the foot of the garden there was a fifteen-foot tall hedge of blackberry, thick with thorny vines. In the middle… Read More