Sweet basil is one of my favorite garden herbs.  The glossy green leaves add such flavor to summer meals. But how can you best preserve that flavor for your winter cooking?  Drying and freezing basil are two of the most popular methods of preserving basil.  Read more.

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It is Freezer Friday again and this week all sorts of things have made it into my freezer!  As I start to head into September and October, my focus turns to my craft fairs and less on preparing meals.  So right now I’m working on stockpiling meals and carry-over ingredients to make dinnertime a little [...]

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In the summer I’m able to get green peppers for about $0.35 each.  Since this is pennies next to what we would have to spend in the winter for fresh peppers, I like to stock up and stash them in the freezer.  My process for freezing peppers is used with the intent of cooking with [...]

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This week has been a much more productive week in terms of getting produce into the freezer.  The 4 quarts of blueberries made it to the freezer as well as 7 quarts of green beans and lots of yellow squash and zucchini cubes.  The mountain of squash that had taken residence on my kitchen counter [...]

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