A few years ago, my husband had to attend a conference in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Hot Springs is an historic resort area. As a matter of fact, the whole resort area of Hot Springs is a national park. Given that my husband’s conference was at the time of my birthday, he invited me to come [...]
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Spa Ozark: what to do with extra canning salt
Posted in canning, economy, frugal living, health, natural body care, pickling, spa, Uncategorized, tagged canning, economy, family, Food, frugal living, health, healthy, resort, spa on January 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Holiday Gifts from the Garden: It’s not too late to make some!
Posted in canning, Christmas food, cucumber, Food, frugal living, gardening, organic food, organic gardening, Pickle, pickling, tagged apple butter, Food, holiday gifts, organic gardening, pepper jelly, pickles on November 29, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I enjoy sharing gifts from our garden for the holidays. I always make lots of extra jars of pickles and, when we have a good apple harvest, apple butter. I share our garden bounty as hostess gifts for holiday parties. At this point in the year, though, with summer veggie season over, if you didn’t [...]
Pickles, Pickles, Pickles!
Posted in canning, cucumber, Food, frugal living, gardening, locavore, Pickle, pickling, tagged canning, cucumbers, Food, gardening, locavore, pickles on August 23, 2009 | 45 Comments »
I’ll be posting more pickle recipes in 2010. Come back to visit in July and August! In just 3 days, Sunday through Tuesday, I picked 16 pounds of cucumbers from my garden. Then I picked 7 more pounds from Friday through today (Sunday again). It all started when I went out of town last week [...]
