The Suburban Homestead
Lilac bushes are a springtime treat. The short week or two they bloom is one of my favorite times to go for walks outside. Lilac Jelly is a fun way to enjoy the lilac bloom all year long. Here’s how to make Lilac Jelly This is really a two-step process. First, we are going to […]
Chokecherry Jelly Recipe Late summer and fall, you might notice that your chokecherry trees are starting to ripen fruit. We have several recipes to take advantage of this backyard treat. Today, we are showing you how to make our favorite Chokecherry Jelly recipe. This recipe is part of our Foraging Minnesota series. If you like […]
I have a new comfort drink and it’s a lot healthier than my go-to winter cocktail. It’s a homemade organic herbal tea, also known as a tisane. I grow herbs it in the summers, dry them in the fall, and enjoy a warm organic herbal tea all winter long. During these cold winter days between […]
Preserved Roasted Tomatoes Preserved roasted tomatoes are a fantastic, super easy way to get the most out of your garden. And if you follow us, you know we do A LOT of gardening in our Straw Bale Gardens. With the temperatures dropping this fall, it’s time to save all the veggies you can from your garden! Canning […]
Sumac Tea Wild Lemonade Staghorn Sumac is a plant that grows wild all over the Eastern part of the country and is great for making this Sumac Tee Wild Lemonade. It is plentiful where we live in mid to southern Minnesota. In early fall the berries are ripe for picking. Sumac Tea Wild Lemonade is an […]
Homemade Strawberry Jam One of my favorite springtime activities is making homemade strawberry jam with the family. It is a delicious condiment that offers a hit of freshness year round. This is my jam baby … Groovy (Thats from Austin Powers – Millenials) Homemade Strawberry Jam Recipe Strawberry Picking If you are going to make […]
Refrigerator Pickles Recipe With all of our preserving this summer, we had to try refrigerator pickles too! I have never made refrigerator pickles but had heard how easy they are. Well, they were right and, man oh man, are they delicious! Don’t tell my great aunt who’s canned dill pickle recipe we love, but these *might* […]
Dill Pickle Recipe A quick note about canning: Canning is very safe if you follow food safety guidelines. I highly recommend sticking to known and trusted sources like Ball’s Blue Book and actually read the first chapter where it talks about food safety. We usually use published recipes, but this post is a family recipe that has […]
Tomato Sauce From Our Garden So, why would someone go through the trouble of making all of their own sauce from their garden? Going to the store seems so easy right? Why don’t we just buy all of our produce? It seems so much easier than growing, harvesting, canning, and storing all of our own […]
How To Make Crab Apple Jelly Making homemade crab apple jelly is a fun project I look forward to doing with my kids each summer. We have several wild crabapple trees that grow around my yard and in local area parks. Besides being beautiful spring trees full of pinks, reds, and whites, the crabapple also produces […]