Canning zucchini at home is a popular search here on my kitchen blog.  I never thought about canning zucchini until last year when I ended up with a lot of zucchini and had to think about how to preserve all that food!
It’s been a year since I canned zucchini, tomatoes and squash along with a [...]

Summer is here and that means canning food from the garden!  Canning your own food isn’t very common these days.  It use to be a skill every homemaker knew.  I’ve had to gradually grow comfortable with canning.  It was a scary skill for me to learn. 
I greatly enjoy canning food from the garden and from [...]

With summer time here, squash and zucchini are abundant.  We’ve been eating a lot of squash and zucchini lately!  In addition to canning and freezing squash, here are some ways I have been using it up:

Steamed:  Squash and zucchini are great vegetables to steam.  I add some crushed garlic and sliced onions and steam it [...]

This week has been a long week of focused food preserving around my house.  I still have lots more food to can and freeze, however, I ended the week with lots of frozen corn, lots of shredded zucchini, some peaches and was able to get a good start on my canning for the season. 
I put my [...]

Gardening is definitely making a comeback.  Different sources speculate exactly why that is.

Mostly the recession.  Bad economic times are pricking that “survival” instinct and people are appreciating those little garden seeds once again.  It’s not hard to calculate the finances on a few seeds and what they can produce and that’s why more people are [...]