I made pear fruit, just like gramma used to do, so we can enjoy pears while it’s cold and the snow is blowing outside! With the pear scraps, I tossed them into a pot, topped it up with water and cooked it for a few hours. I left it sit overnight and then I strained…
Month: September 2025
Garden Update – September 2025
Happy September!! It’s hard to believe that fall is soon upon us! This month has been busy with harvesting the garden and preserving our harvest. Not only did we do Harvest Week again this year in which we harvested the majority of our garden on our city homestead, but we also had to harvest our…
Zucchini Corn Chowder
We have lots of corn from our garden this year and my mom gave us a bunch of zucchini, so I froze some, and then made this delicious Zucchini Corn Chowder. Chowder is a thick, hearty soup that has a cream or milk base and loaded with vegetables or seafood. In today’s vegetable chowder, we…
Canning Homemade Pasta Sauce
We were gifted some cherry tomatoes so we decided to use these tomatoes along with some tomatoes we had purchased from the farmers market and make pasta sauce to can and enjoy it during the winter months. It’s such a great way to preserve those tomatoes! We are using Parsley and Greek Basil from our…
Homemade Salsa to Can
It’s the season of canning and preserving! We bought some “salsa” tomatoes this past Tuesday from a local farm, and now that they’re ripe, we decided to make a batch of salsa that we can enjoy this winter. This is the first time I’ve ever made salsa to can. It tastes great already! We used…
Candied Peppers – Garden Candy
Today I’m making Candied Peppers. These candied peppers are commonly referred to as “Cowboy Candy” but because we are using a variety of peppers in ours, rather than just jalapeños, I’m just calling it Candied Peppers…or Garden Candy!
Harvest Week — Harvesting the Garden September 2025
It’s Harvest Week!! We did Harvest Week last year and had a lot of fun — it makes the work a little more enjoyable, so we decided to have Harvest Week again this year. We began Harvest Week on Monday, September 8 and ended Harvest Week on Monday, September 15 since we took Sunday off!…
Old Fashioned Bread Pudding with Vanilla Sauce
This old fashioned bread pudding reminds me of bread pudding gramma made, but she did not serve it with a sauce. This bread pudding is moist and custardy with a crunchy top and the sauce adds a nice vanilla-caramel flavor. It’s so good! Let’s get started! Chop up day old bread. Put into a buttered…
