Recipes

Good, old-fashioned recipe for canning homemade garlic dill pickles with a water bath. Good, old-fashioned recipe for canning homemade garlic dill pickles with a water bath.

You will love these hot garlic dill pickles. They are one of my favorite easy pickling recipes. There is a story behind why I started canning hot garlic dill pickles. Years ago in Sacramento, California, I ran across an old man selling pickles at a swap meet. He made the pickles in his own kitchen…

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Easy recipe for canning asparagus. Pressure canning for beginners. Easy recipe for canning asparagus. Pressure canning for beginners.

This is the first year I have canned asparagus. It is really easy! I first made pickled asparagus, but then I ended up with a whole bunch of little pieces of asparagus that I didn’t know what to do with, so I decided to can them. Canning asparagus is easy if you follow these instructions…

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Festive drinks to serve children at the Thanksgiving table. Festive drinks to serve children at the Thanksgiving table.

Please make the children’s table festive at Thanksgiving! It’s so much fun for everyone.   I watched a little munchkin’s face fall last Thanksgiving when she realized she was relegated to the “children’s table.” I do set a separate table sometimes for the kids, but I do it like a special treat, not as a…

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