Now that you’ve learned the simplicity of canning both sweet and dill pickles, let’s move on to salsa! Yes, you can learn how to can homemade salsa to enjoy all fall and winter long. Using picked-from-the-vine tomatoes along with other fresh ingredients your salsa will …
Relishes, Sauces, & Marinades
How to Can Homemade Dill Pickles
There’s nothing like biting into a tart crispy dill pickle. Dill pickles start out as just plain ‘ole cucumbers and with some simply ingredients are transformed into a delicious treat. Learning how to can homemade dill pickles is doable. Don’t let the word “canning” throw …
How to Can Homemade Sweet Pickles
If you’ve ever wondered how to ‘can’ homemade sweet pickles, let me show you how today. Sweet pickles are easy to make: five ingredients and taking only three days start to finish. Great in relish, chicken or tuna salad, sweet pickles are marvelous on the …
Homemade Ranch Dressing Makes Everything Better
Y’all, ranch dressing just makes everything better! As I try to fill my diet with more fresh veggies, this is something that will definitely help. And I can feel better about it because it’s homemade, not a bottled store-bought version with lots of preservatives and …
Mennonite Fruit Soup: Moos
This year as we go through the Fruit of the Spirit I was thinking… Hmm… what kind of recipes would fit that theme? And the first one that came to mind is one I grew up with. My mom would make Moos out of various …
Raspberry BBQ Chicken
The fascination with drumsticks continues at my home this summer. We’ve had Spicy Orange Drumsticks and Zesty and Healthy drumsticks and now my favorite of all– Raspberry BBQ Drumsticks. Skip the chicken and just give me a spoon for the sauce–it is that good! I …
Love Sauce
Once upon a time, in a very big city, there was a fast-food place that a young girl liked to eat at. There were only two in this very big city, and they were quite a distance from one another, but both were very tasty …
Greek Flatbread Chicken with Rosemary-Lemon Potatoes
If you visit Atlanta there’s a local dive you must not miss–Grecian Gyro located on Virginia Avenue by Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. It’s a hole-in-the-wall with little parking, but that doesn’t stop anyone. We all wait for parking before going in to wait for food! Funny thing is, …
Brisket Marinade
Loi Palmer 10 oz soy sauce, 1 tablespoon Liquid Smoke, 1 can beef broth, beef brisket. Marinade brisket overnight or 8 hours. Cover brisket in foil. Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour per pound.
Fresh Cranberry Relish
Loi Palmer, November 2005 MMCW 1 (16 oz) bag fresh cranberries, 1 naval orange, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup chopped pecans. Coarsely chop cranberries and naval orange (include the peel–remove the seeds) in food processor. Stir in sugar and pecan pieces. To get the full …