Looking for a homemade version of those canned diced green chiles that you buy in the store? Here’s how you make them! You can also use these same directions to can any type of pepper – whether they are hot or sweet. Near the end of late summer, we always have more peppers than we…
One of my favorite easy and healthy summer side dishes is grilled corn salad, loaded with veggies fresh from my garden! Here’s my simple take on that classic recipe, but keep in mind that corn salad is super flexible, so feel free to switch out or add in veggies, or try a different dressing to…
Learn how to pressure can fresh pinto beans picked right from your garden, or found seasonally at your local farmer’s market! A common way of canning pinto beans involves soaking and rehydrating store-bought dried beans. As a gardener who grows your own beans, you can just pick FRESH pinto beans out of your garden, shell…
Learn how to can fresh black beans, using a pressure canner and shell-out beans from your garden! Black beans are very easy to grow at home. In fact, we grow ours using nothing more than a bag of store bought dried black beans as seeds, and a few tilled rows in the garden. While you…
Learn how to can fresh kidney beans when they’re in the shelling stage! Homegrown canned beans have an amazing taste and texture. It’s easy to grow your own kidney beans in a home garden. They’re not fussy, and provide loads of beans for the small price of seed. (Yes, you can even plant inexpensive store-bought…
Kohlrabi is a mild vegetable that makes a great potato substitute or side dish. Here it’s roasted with garlic powder, salt, pepper, parmesan, and other spices, and made similar to my favorite roasted potato recipe! It’s easy, delicious, and a great way to introduce this veggie to your family. Kohlrabi is an underused vegetable in…
This flavorful shiitake mushrooms recipe is super easy to make! Just chop, season, pop in your oven, stir once or twice while baking, and enjoy! We grow a ton of shiitake mushrooms so are always experimenting with ways to use them. This is one of our favorite side dishes made with shiitakes – it’s super…
This homemade peach ice cream recipe has been in our family for three generations. When my mom was a kid, her mom (my grandma) would always make it for church ice cream socials, where everyone would scrape the container clean! Besides using peaches to flavor the ice cream, you could instead use a bag of…
Learn how to turn the beautiful roses in your garden into a tasty and gorgeous rose petal jelly! It’s made with reduced sugar pectin, fresh rose petals, sugar, lemon juice, and water. That’s all you need to make this pretty floral treat. Rose petal jelly tastes very good too – somewhat like a mild grape-like…
Learn how to make all-natural lavender simple syrup – a sweet combination of sugar (or honey) and water, with a hint of lavender flavor. It can be used anywhere simple syrup is normally used such as homemade lemonade recipes, lattes, mocktails, sorbets, and more! It’s easy to make too – you just need: You may…
Turn edible peach flowers into this pretty springtime lemonade! It’s an ultra easy recipe that creates a single serving of naturally pink homemade lemonade. While ripe peaches are best known for being delicious fruits of summer, the peach tree itself can also be utilized year ’round. In Appalachian herbalism, peach leaves, flowers, and twigs are…
Learn how to turn ripe cayenne peppers from your garden into cayenne powder and red pepper flakes. It’s super easy to make your own healthy and wholesome kitchen spices! Related articles: Grow & Make Your Own Paprika Powder and How to Make Celery Salt When to harvest your cayenne peppers: Harvest cayenne peppers when they’re…