Dirt to Table Experiences
Learning to Preserve: Easy Jalapeño Jelly
My gardening skills and ability to preserve my harvest are novice but, I am learning fast. I shied away from preserving because I thought it was too complicated, and time consuming. It can be time consuming but it is surprisingly easy. Honestly, I find it relaxing. It allows me time to just focus on the
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Food + Drink
Canning Goodness: Simple Preserved Lemons
My Meyer lemon tree is laden and weighted down with lemon fruit. Duly noted that the reason this citrus tree was planted was to ensure that we had plenty of fresh lemon juice for lemon drop cocktails Lemon Drop Martini Cocktails Still, what does a girl do with a hundred plus lemons? First, she shares
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Dirt to Table Experiences
Dirt to Table Experience: Fig and Vanilla Jam
My fig tree is loaded down with ripe figs. The feeling when I am pulling the branches down low to pull the fruit is a delightful one. I am not even cussing at the birds who steal their fair share of the fruit. The small figs are perfectly ripe and their brown skins are soft to
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Food + Drink
Last Call for Summer Peaches
A basket of fresh Summer South Carolina peaches. The purchase cannot be resisted on a roadside stand off the highway. A basket of peaches turns into cans of peaches that I can enjoy until next summer. The art of packing fruit tightly in the jar still evades me. While in my canning mode, late
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dessert
Dirt to Table Experience: Blueberry-Maple Spoon Fruit
Blueberry season has arrived here in North Florida. Each year, I take that trip to a local blueberry farm just east of Tallahassee, and pick enough blueberries to last me until the following season. Blueberries freeze very well. The idea is not to wash your blueberries before freezing them. Also, you don’t have to use
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Dirt to Table Experiences
Dirt to Table Experience- Southern Sweet Chow-Chow Relish
I am smiling at myself. There things you don’t imagine yourself doing. I have realized that there are many things that could not be imagined at some point in my life, that became a reality at another point. Example, shoveling manure out of a wheel barrel into a garden plot and enjoying every minute. There