Category Archives: For the Pantry

Tomato Vegetable Beef Soup {Pressure Canned}

I love to get up early before the household wakes. Mornings are busy, there is always something that needs to be tended, laundry to hang on the line, breakfast to serve and clean up, and schooling to begin. In order to start the day properly, I have been waking up before everyone to have some […]

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{Home Canned} Tomato Hamburger Soup

The geese have already started heading south. I can hear them honk and take flight- it is the grandest sight to see them fly right by my little balcony, eye level with me. I love to see them in flight and, although some people think geese are a nuisance, I think they are beautiful! It […]

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Homemade Hot Sauce {Canned}

The canning pots have not taken a break over the past week or so, nor has the pressure canner … I had hoped to start school early (as the girls keep requested to crack open our books – Praise the Lord!) but these tomatoes keep ripening 🙂 and they must not go to waste … […]

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Homemade Tomato Sauce {the easy way}

  “Ma and Laura picked the tomatoes… There were enough ripe tomatoes to make almost a gallon of preserves.” ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder , The Long Winter     I am so grateful – we have an abundance of tomatoes and I do mean an abundance – flowing out of our garden. It is wonderful! […]

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Canning Cucumbers {Bread & Butter}

It’s canning season! What have you canned for your pantry already? There are so many fun recipes out there to try – or time-tested ones passed down from mothers and grandmothers. This year, along with dill pickles, we added bread and butter pickles and a cucumber relish, to our canning to-do list. The girls helped […]

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