Courage...

I'm trying to work up the courage to make some sauerkraut. I'm hopefully going to get me a cabbage from the store today or tomorrow one and I still have a few carrots left in the crisper from my February Azure Order. LOL They've stayed forever! Wish me luck.

Brand New

My New Hobby that most of you would probably agree with by now is canning. Well my wonderful husband just bought me a brand new pressure cooker and water bath pot. I love it! Can't wait to use them both!

Big Day

Well today I think I've done it all. LOL Not really my wonderful husband helped SO MUCH! This morning we woke up to have whole wheat pancakes with muscadine syrup (which was suppose to be jelly).

Let me explain. I have made muscadine jelly and it worked. But I had another batch of muscadines that I was going to prepare as jelly too, but I thought that it called for too much sugar...well my advice....

follow the recipe to a T.

Because now instead of jelly I have syrup. :)

But my kids didn't seem to mind. They thought it was great. I prefer sograum anyways.

Well as promised I made muscadine jelly and also canned some pears from a great uncle. 

And today I've spent homeschooling my kids and canning. We had 4 tomato plants left with a lot of little green tomatoes on it and I figured before they could rippen it would probably freeze and ruin them. So we've canned them. Below is a picture of Spicy Pickled Green Tomatoes. We haven't tried them yet of course. We just made them today. In fact as I write my post I can here the sealing pop of them. That is such a sweet sound. :)

I can't wait till next year. I hope to be canning a LOT more. Till then...Happy Canning!

Homemade Jelly

Well I did it. I've been putting it off but I did it. You see a while back I tried to make some Muscadine Jelly without using SureJell and instead blending up the muscadine hulls and using it as natural pectin. Well needless to say it didn't work. So I reopened my cans added the SureJell and volia! Muscadine Jelly. I'll try and add a picture of it and the pears I've recently canned. They are simply beautiful. If I do say so myself. :) Hopefully my next book to look into will be...

Also, the book, The Backyard Homestead, is an absolutely awesome book. It has everything you would possibly even need to know about what vegetable to plant, what herbs, fruit tree, nut trees, berries, etc... It explains how to keep all kinds of livestocks. It is truly an amazing book. A great buy!