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Flickr is a site that many are familiar with.  For those who are not, it is a website that allows people to share their photos with others.  If you click on any of the images on the right-had side of this screen (in the section labelled OUR PHOTOS), you will be transported to the photos [...]

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We rarely post on the same subject twice – there’s always room for exceptions and this is well worth some extra attention.  For those of you familiar with the preserving challenge she is hosting there are a few offers that are new and may help motivate you to join in the fun. There are more [...]

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It’s mid July and the cool of summer has been extending growing seasons. Today’s post is a short reminder – our version of a public service announcement.  90 Minutes of work today can bring you fresh flavour beyond compare come winter.  90 minutes can make the difference between a chemical-filled, poor tasting, imported, gellatenous composite [...]

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It’s just after midnight.  I worked a full day and had a great day.  I visited a new farm on the way home and bought a lot of strawberries (thanks to Jodi for the location).  A lot.  I stopped elsewhere to get rhubarb, sugar and some extra lemon juice.  Ate dinner, started cleaning strawberries. I [...]

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This post is brief but may be one of the most useful ones we’ve shared in some time – we’ve spent some time compiling the expected harvesting seasons of fruit and veg that are commonly pickled and preserved in Ontario.  This chart is based on estimates for Ontario and can vary from year-to-year and your [...]

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This is about as easy as it gets – set aside a few hours and you`ll be off to the races.  This applesauce will be as good as it gets – it took me 5 or 6 hours to turn 75 pounds of apples into 9 liters of sauce (36-1 cup bottles) but you could [...]

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I bought a fancy electronic peeler today – I thought it would be a good test with almost 75 pounds of apples that I planned to turn into sauce.  The apples were fresh out of a cellar and from our tour of Eastern Ontario.  It’s almost 11pm as I write this and I am awaiting [...]

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Mt Dad had a big birthday, we had a big party and we served crudites (yes, that is pronounced krew-dytes). What to do with a bunch of leftover peppers – I mean a stir fry will only go so far.  TaDa – the pickled pepper:

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I’m just not that into you – well not that into sweets anyhow.  But some things are like heroin of the preserving world – this is one of them:

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Yesterday’s post revealed pickles that can be eaten in weeks of inception and will peak within months.  I make a batch to hold me over to my true love – the long setting dill. Spicy Dill Pickles

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