The Suburban Homestead
Gardening is a fun and rewarding hobby and lifestyle for millions of people around the country. One way to extend your gardens produces is from drying herbs. This is especially important if you live in the North because we have such a short growing season. By learning how to dry fresh herbs, we can introduce […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s our first post! It is for one of the best salsa recipe ideas we have. We’re so excited to get this blog up and going. I couldn’t help but start it as quickly as I could install WordPress. I’m Chris from Four Kids and a Chicken and this is our new blog. I own […]