Creative Chicks

With this new house I  have a new set-up for canning. My kitchen stove has a flat glass top which is lovely most of the time, except for w...

At our house the preferred jam of choice is Raspberry. Homemade. Hands down! I think there are a few kids who won't even try anything...

Two weekends ago it decided to cool down here in Minnesota.  We had been enjoying unseasonably warmer weather for Fall, which was fine with ...

I canned a batch of soup over the weekend. Part of my crew was pheasant hunting and it was rainy. So it turned out to be a great time to do ...

Two weeks ago a gentleman from hubby's work asked if we'd like some tomatoes.  Earlier in the season he had brought a bunch of z...

One thing we haven't mentioned on the blog yet is juicing .  Apple season is just about here depending on where you live.  So in prepa...

....otherwise known as stocking up when fresh corn on the cob is in season and on sale. This past week or two I've noticed that most...

I don't know about you but sometimes we are good about giving the kids' teachers a nice gift for Christmas and sometimes we're n...

Over the weekend I went to one of our local grocery stores to take advantage of a pork deal.  Took hubby with me so we could buy more as the...

It's deer season already--archery starts in mid-September and goes through the end of the year. Hubby is involved in some metro hunts a...

My neighbor Vicki came over earlier in the week to use my canner to make some jam.  Her kitchen was slightly out of commission as her husban...

A week or so ago my friend MaryAnn let me pick some green beans from her garden as she had already picked and canned her fill for what she a...

I took advantage of cooler weather this week, especially in the mornings, and canned some more dried beans for the pantry--red kidney, pinto...

Just when I think that my life can't get any crazier this first month of summer I am proved wrong. Oh so wrong.... Tues. morning ...

Here is a list of the canning recipes we have posted over the course of the last couple seasons.  Hopefully we've caught them all.  We ...