Fresh Tomato Relish for Burgers and Brats (Bruschetta Style)
Heirloom Tomato Relish makes a perfect accompaniment to brats, burgers, steaks, pulled pork, carnitas and much more
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Ideas for Using Sundried Tomatoes + Sundried Tomato Butter Recipe
Quick Summary: Sun-dried tomato butter is a compound butter made by blending rehydrated sun-dried tomatoes with softened butter, garlic, herbs, and lemon juice. Use it as a spread, a pasta
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Blueberry Bourbon BBQ Sauce Recipe for Burgers, Pork Chops or Salmon
Quick Summary: A robust, tangy BBQ sauce made with fresh or frozen blueberries, bourbon, balsamic vinegar, and warm spices. Perfect on burgers, pork chops, salmon, or grilled chicken. Makes about
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Easy Freezer Basil Pesto: Tips for the Freshest Winter Flavor
The best way to preserve basil’s bright flavor and color for winter. Includes Marcella Hazan’s classic pesto recipe and tips for freezing in large batches or ice cube portions. Add cheese and butter after thawing for the freshest taste.
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Foraging Spruce Tips: How to Harvest and Use Them for Tea, Syrup, and More
Quick Summary: Spruce tips are the tender new growth on spruce trees, harvested in spring. They’re citrusy, resinous, and high in vitamin C. Harvest from healthy, mature trees away from
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How to Preserve Blueberries: A Blueberry Farmer’s Guide to Freezing, Canning and Dehydrating
Quick Summary: A blueberry farmer’s guide to preserving your harvest before it goes bad. Covers freezing, canning, dehydrating, making jam, drink syrups, hot sauce, rumtopf, and freezing muffins. Plus a
How to Dry Herbs for Tea: 4 Methods That Work
This guide covers four drying methods, proper storage, and a refreshing iced chamomile tea recipe to try with your harvest. Quick Summary: Drying your own herbs is simple and gives
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German Fruit Preserves in Rum (Rumtopf)
Quick Summary: Rumtopf is a German technique of preserving fruit in rum and sugar, layered throughout summer and steeped until winter. Use most fruit, including strawberries, raspberries, cherries, peaches, plums,
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Homemade Pumpkin Butter Recipe
There is no better Fall breakfast (in my humble opinion!) than rich, velvety pumpkin butter slathered on toast with a cup of coffee. This homemade pumpkin butter is made with
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Green Tomato Kimchi Recipe: Fermented Tomatoes Korean-Style
A spicy fermented green tomato kimchi with napa cabbage, chile peppers, garlic, and ginger. Ready in 3-5 days, keeps for months refrigerated. Perfect for end-of-season tomatoes that won’t ripen before frost.
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10 Tested Ways to Preserve Herbs, Fruit or Vegetables
Quick Summary: A complete guide to preserving fresh fruits and vegetables from your garden or farmers’ market. Covers freezing, dehydrating, pickling, canning, salt preservation, root cellaring, shrub syrups, fermenting, air
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Pickled Green Tomatoes: Easy Refrigerator Pickle Recipe
Tangy refrigerator pickled green tomatoes ready to eat in 24 hours with no canning equipment. Works with unripe end-of-season tomatoes or green heirloom varieties like Aunt Ruby’s and Green Zebra.
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Dehydrated Tomato Powder: How to Make It with Fresh Tomatoes
Dehydrate fresh tomatoes and grind them into a concentrated powder for year-round tomato flavor. Covers drying times, the best tomato varieties for powder, grinding, and storage.
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How to Make Herb-Infused Salts
Summer offers an abundance and variety of fresh herbs that are so much better to cook with than the dried herbs of Winter. There are many ways to preserve fresh
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Herb Butter (Compound Butter): 4 Blends for Preserving Fresh Herbs
Quick Summary: The best way to preserve fresh herbs with full flavor. Mix minced herbs with softened butter, roll into logs, and freeze for 4-6 months. Better than drying for
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Red Bell Pepper & Eggplant Spread: Kosovar Ajvar
Ajvar is a red pepper eggplant spread popular in the Balkan region. This recipe is a particularly robust version enhanced with a Peruvian hot spice. The video that accompanies the
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Homemade Dandelion Jelly with Elderflower Liqueur
Quick Summary: A floral, honey-like jelly made from foraged dandelion petals, infused with elderflower liqueur. Tastes like spring captured in a jar. Includes tips for harvesting dandelions efficiently and variations
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Salt and Vinegar Cucumber Chips: Dehydrated, Oven-Baked or Air Fryer
Quick Summary: Crispy, tangy cucumber chips dried in a dehydrator, a low oven or an air dryer with salt and vinegar flavors. Makes a great low carb snack that keeps
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30-Minute Pickled Onions for Mexican Cooking
Quick Summary: Quick-pickled red onions that add tangy crunch to carnitas, fish tacos, and nearly any Mexican dish. Five minutes to prep, 30 minutes to marinate, keeps for weeks in
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Dehydrated Beet Chips Recipe: A Nutritious Snack
Quick Summary: Homemade beet chips are crunchy, nutritious, and addictive. Made with just beets and salt in a dehydrator (8-10 hours at 135°F). Healthier than store-bought chips with no additives.
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Freezer Tomato Sauce from Fresh Tomatoes (Secret: Sumac)
A robust freezer tomato sauce made with fresh end-of-season tomatoes, simmered with basil, garlic, thyme, and a hint of sumac. Freeze in batches for winter cooking.
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Homemade Harissa Sauce: A North African Chile Paste
Low Carb Sauces like Harissa, Romesco and Chimichurri can enhance proteins, fats and vegetables on a low carb or ketogenic diet
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Skillet Pizza with Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Beer Crust
Skillet pizza with sun dried tomatoes is an easy way to have an intensely flavorfull pizza on any night of the week
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Best Tomatoes for Drying: How to Dry Your Own (Oven vs Dehydrator)
How to dry tomatoes, heirloom or hybrid, at home with a dehydrator or oven or in the sun. How best to use dried tomatoes in cooking.
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