This past weekend I picked the last of our shelled beans and peas from our garden... I got a mixture of white beans, pintos, a pink speck...

I understand that plum tomatoes make for better sauce, more bang for your buck... but I had mountains of globe tomatoes and decided to ma...

I buy and use cans of Rotel by the dozen... so when blog reader, Kerry, shared a recipe for canning homemade Rotel, I had to do it... Thi...

We eat a lot of hamburger soup in the winter and I like to use V8 Juice as my soup base, adding browned hamburger meat, potatoes, onions,...

One of my favorite, most fun memories of canning tomatoes was with my ex's sister when she lived with us for awhile. Martha and I bec...

Where I come from, some days we pick vegetables from the garden and get enough for a "run" and sometimes for a "mess....