Canning, Fermenting + Preserving Food

The best resources on canning for beginners! Learn how to set up a boiling water bath and what canning equipment you need. Find easy recipes for jams, jellies, pickles, kimchi, and sauerkraut. Learn how to preserve a season's worth of tomatoes by freezing them, fermenting them for salsa, or making spaghetti sauce with the skins on. Get a step-by-step tutorial for nukadoko (Japanese pickles) when you want to try something different!
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9 Updated Canning Tips and Tricks for Modern-Day Home Canning
8 Canning Tips and Tricks for Modern-Day Home Canning: Everything you need to know to make boiling water bath canning and preserving food easier and more efficient.
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How to Can Food without a Canner | gridsub.com
Get started with canning and food preservation even if you don't have a canner. Here are some alternative approaches to getting it done #foodpreservation #gridsub #canning
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How to Make Pickles Crunchy | Quick and Easy Refrigerator Pickles Recipe
Learn how to make crunchy homemade dill pickles, including easy tips to keep pickles as crunchy as possible with grape leaves, tea leaves, an ice bath, trimming, or other methods. This refrigerator pickles recipe quick and easy to make. Packed with dill, garlic, vinegar and spices, our pickled cucumbers are delicious and delectably tangy!
Deanna Talerico | Homestead and Chill
Deanna Talerico | Homestead and Chill
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Quick Pickled Roasted Beets on Freshly Preserved Ideas
Quick Pickled Roasted Chioggia and Golden Heirloom Beets, a recipe created in partnership with @ballcanning for Freshly Preserved Ideas. #spon
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How to can tomatoes the easy way
How to can tomatoes the easy way with Tomato Dirt #Canning #HomeGarden
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Easy Quick Pickled Green Beans Recipe for Canning or Refrigerator - Best Dill Pickled Green Beans
Looking for delicious ways to to preserve green beans? Come try our easy quick pickled green beans with dill and garlic. They're tangy, crunchy, and can be made spicy if you wish! This vinegar pickled green bean recipe is safe for canning to store at room temperature, or can be made as quick refrigerator green bean pickles. This is one of our favorite ways to use homegrown green beans from the garden. Enjoy!
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Deanna Talerico | Homestead and Chill
Deanna Talerico | Homestead and Chill
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Easy Pickled Pepperoncinis | Quick Pickled Peppers Recipe (Can or Refrigerate)
Learn how to preserve peppers from the garden and make easy homemade pickled pepperoncinis. This quick refrigerator pickled peppers recipe can be made with banana peppers, Hungarian wax peppers, chili peppers, and other peppers of choice. The pickled peppers recipe can also be canned - canning instructions provided.
Deanna Talerico | Homestead and Chill
Deanna Talerico | Homestead and Chill
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How to Make Pickled Peppers | Easy Refrigerator Pickled Peppers Recipe
Follow our easy recipe to make quick refrigerator pickled peppers (pepperoncinis), using ANY type of pepper you want to pickle! No canning needed, but you can also can them if desired. These pickled peppers are delectably tangy, just a tad sweet, and as spicy as you make them. Step-by-step photos included.
Deanna Talerico | Homestead and Chill
Deanna Talerico | Homestead and Chill
seven secrets to harvesting and storing onions
7 Secrets to Harvesting, curing, and Storing Onions
What's the secret to harvesting onions at just the right time, curing them so they'll last all winter, and storing them so they won't sprout or mold? I've actually got SEVEN secrets for you that will help with picking your onions when they're ripe and ready, maximizing their shelf life in storage, and making sure they stay just as fresh as the day you harvested them.
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The Best Way to Store Vegetables Over Winter
You can store garden vegetables over winter in a way that maximizes their shelf life, sometimes for many months, and even without a root cellar! The key is knowing how to prepare your produce ahead of time for storage, growing the right varieties to begin with, and paying attention to the kind of temperatures and humidity levels they like. Because surprise: the fridge is not always the best place to keep vegetables.
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My Favorite Ruby Red Sauerkraut Recipe
You're probably no stranger to sauerkraut... but have you tried red cabbage sauerkraut? With a flavor and texture that's just as tangy and crisp as fermented green cabbage, ruby red kraut is packed with antioxidants as well as all the good stuff for your gut. Don't pay more at the store; here's how you can make your own red sauerkraut at home.
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How to Preserve Basil the Easy Way
Got too much basil in your garden? Sick of making yet another pesto? Here's an easy way to preserve fresh basil so you can enjoy the aromatic herb year-round: puree it, freeze it, then use it in a variety of ways you never thought of in your everyday recipes. (Lots of ideas included!)
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Poor Man's Capers: Pickled Nasturtium Pods
Make your own "capers" by pickling the seed pods from spent nasturtium plants.
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The Best Way to Freeze Carrots - Raw or Blanched (With or Without Blanching)
This is one of my favorite quick and easy ways to preserve fresh carrots from the garden. Come learn how to freeze carrots - with or without blanching! This guide covers how to freeze cut carrots, carrot sticks, whole carrots, raw carrots, or shredded carrots, with tips to keep them as crisp and fresh as possible. I've also included my favorite reusable freezer storage containers, along with how to defrost, use and cook frozen carrots too.
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Deanna Talerico | Homestead and Chill
Deanna Talerico | Homestead and Chill
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Freshly Preserved Ideas — Quick Pickled Roasted Beets From Ball Fresh...
Quick Pickled Roasted Beets From Ball Fresh Preserver, Garden Betty