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End of Garden Pickles
End of Garden Pickles are like a sweet mixed pickles which contain other vegetables besides cucumbers. This type of pickle generally contains a bunch of vegetables that are harvested at the end of the season like using up all the remaining cucumbers that were picked. You can also toss in your favorite veggies like green…
Peach Jalapeno Jam
If you are looking for a jam that’s both sweet and savoury, this is the perfect jam! Peach Jalapeno Jam is one of my favorites because it’s sweet from the peaches but slightly spicy from the jalapeños without being over bearing. I had a few peaches leftover from canning fruit just like my gramma once…
Blueberry Jam
Homemade jam is a great way to preserve fruit to enjoy during the cold winter months. Blueberry jam tastes like extra sweetened summery blueberries – it’s really quite fantastic on toast, atop pancakes or waffles or even with yogurt. Let’s get started! We got these beautiful BC blueberries from the farmer’s market. We decided to…
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookies remind me of my childhood with oats in the chocolate chip cookies. Between the 1940s and 1950s home bakers began combining oatmeal raisin cookies and chocolate chip cookies together to create oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Fannie Farmer had put oatmeal raisin cookies in her 1896 cookbook. Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Inn chocolate chunk…
Plum Jam
My folks had tons of plums on their trees this year! We ate lots and had enough to make a batch of jam. Plum jam tastes just like freshly picked plums and is simple to make, although a bit time consuming)! Let’s get started. Here are the plums from the trees at my folks’ –…
Saskatoon Jelly
Saskatoon jelly tastes just like eating freshly picked saskatoons! The jelly is sweet and tastes great on toast, pancakes or waffles and even on oatmeal! Saskatoons are a berry native to the prairies, growing both wild and domestic. Wild saskatoons are often much smaller than farmed saskatoons. This is a cultivated saskatoon or a domesticated…
Cherry Jam
This year has been a great year for cherries! There’s been an abundance of Evans Cherries at my folks’ which we happily picked to make Cherry Rhubarb Pie and cobbler and of course jam. I love making jam because it’s a simple way (although time consuming) to preserve lots of summer fruit to enjoy in…
Cherry Rhubarb Pie
It’s that time of summer when the rhubarb and cherries are ready to pick. Instead of making the usual desserts, we wanted to make something different. So, my daughter requested cherry rhubarb pie — something I have never made before! I typically pare rhubarb with strawberries or orange, and I normally make just a plain…
