Easy Tomato Paste Recipe Instead of buying tomato paste, you can make your own thick paste from tomato purée. We have also taking the pulp from plum tomatoes and it’s better than store bought tomato paste, made with just a few ingredients (like olive oil, onions, basil, garlic and fresh tomatoes). This is a tomato […]
Canning Tomato Basil Sauce With Garlic
Canning Tomato Basil Sauce Make your own tomato basil sauce with garlic. You can use this for spaghettis sauce, to make lasagna and manicotti, to name a few. By making your own sauce, you’ll have fresh tomatoes, fresh basil, onions, olive oil and garlic to flavor the sauce. What Do You Use Tomato Basil Sauce […]
Canning Apples for Baking
Canning Apples To Use Later When you find a good deal on apples or may your apples are ready for picking, you are going to have a LOT of apples all at once and may feel overwhelmed. Have you considered canning apples? If you do this, this is a game changer in being able to […]
Making Dehydrated Tomato Powder
Easily Make Tomato Powder Want to amp up the flavor to your spaghetti? Or give your meatloaf a little oomf? Adding a little tomato powder could do the trick. If you are canning tomatoes and have been discarding the tomato skins, stop! You can dehydrate tomato skins and make powder to enhance the flavor of […]
Canning Boozy Cherries With Alcohol
Canning Boozy Cherries If you make a glaze for ham, you will want these spiked cherries with alcohol to have more flavor, you’ll want to can this, to use for the holidays and use some for desserts. And make this in advance (and date it), because flavor infusion takes 4 weeks. These would make great […]
Mom’s Favorite No Pectin Blackberry Jam
No Pectin Blackberry Jam Blackberry Jam is a fun recipe to make and this Ball Canning recipe only takes 2 ingredients. The third ingredient is not listed in their book (but I have seen it in several other small batch jam/jelly recipes they have to keep the jam from foaming). You read that right, this […]
Best Homemade Cherry Chocolate Jam
Homemade Chocolate Cherry Jam Love chocolate dipped cherries or cherry ice cream with chocolate chunks? This cherry chocolate jam is a game changer. We recently found this recipe in our Ball Canning Book and had to make it. You may be scratching your head like we were. Can you really put chocolate in jam? How […]
Homemade Buttermilk Ranch Dressing
How To Make Buttermilk Ranch Dressing Is ranch dressing your favorite salad dressing? Or maybe you used to ranch dressing for dipping veggies and chicken nuggets. We’ve got the dip for you. I find this the best buttermilk ranch dressing recipe I have had outside of some restaurants. You can change this recipe with sour […]
Homemade Sweet Cherry Jam Recipe
Enjoy Cherry Season Longer With This Sweet Cherry Jam Recipe In the jam line up, cherry jam is number 2 in our favorites (closely behind strawberry). We are fortunate to live in Michigan, where cherries are grown in Northern Michigan. You can find cherries in your local store (like we did for this recipe) to […]
Best Banana Bread Recipe
Making The Best Banana Bread Do you have bananas on your counter that are in need of eating or baking into something good? You can turn them into the best banana bread. If you are like us and want to enjoy the bread a little longer, we make mini loaves, so they can be frozen […]
BBQ Pulled Pork – Instant Pot
Instant Pot Pulled Pork Recipe Whether you have a pork loin or a pork butt, you are can make a delicious barbecue pork sandwich. You can make instant pot pulled pork that is super tender. We have found seasoning the meat, will add flavor along with adding bbq sauce at the end of cooking the […]
