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Homemade Tomato Sauce

Homemade Tomato Sauce. Can you smell it? Tomatoes cooking down….mmmmm. Heaven. What did I do before making homemade sauce? I depended on jars from a grocery store? For…

Tractor!

Me: So why are they dropping the tractor off at the end of the driveway? HWMMS: So I can be the one to triumphantly drive that mother f**ker…

Pressure Canner: Why Am I Terrified Of You?

Pressure Canner: Why Am I Terrified Of You? HWMMS (He Who Makes Me Smile) mentioned the other day that he was shocked that we didn’t already own a…

Sauce. Simmering. Smells. Spectacular.

Sauce. Simmering. Smells. Spectacular. Sadly, the tomatoes are not my own. Currently in the large garden plot I have a RIDICULOUS amount of tomato plants that have reached…

Stevia?

What to do with all that Stevia? Seriously? Stevia? What was I thinking planting this in the herb garden? I don’t even know what I’m going to do…

Lemon Verbana Jelly

All Things Adventures in Canning: Lemon Verbana Jelly One of the very hardy herbs growing in the herb garden is a giant Lemon Verbana plant. Smells amazing, but…

Tomatoes!

Despite the fact I grew up on a farm and had acres and acres and acres of fruits and veggies surrounding me, this is the first time in…

Composting, me?

Composting, me? Yep friends. That’s a compost pile! Finally! Growing up we always had a giant rubber Tupperware bin in the corner of the kitchen to throw our…