by Renee Pottle | Aug 30, 2018 | Instagram, Real Food, Sourdough and Other Fermented Foods
Make your own kombucha at home using fresh, seasonal peaches. Once or twice a year I make a big batch of kombucha. Don’t get me wrong, I drink kombucha all year – but usually I purchase a commercial brand at the grocery store. When summer peaches are at their... 
by Renee Pottle | Aug 29, 2018 | Canning and Preserving, Dehydrating, Instagram
Macerate peaches and then dehydrate them for chewy goodness and a perfect lunchbox snack. Every summer I dehydrate a few peaches. Usually I slice, treat in lemon juice so they keep their color, and then dry till crumbly. This method works great if you want to... 
by Renee Pottle | Aug 28, 2018 | Candied, Canning and Preserving, Instagram
Turn fresh summer peaches into candied bits for later fruitcakes and other baked goods. Candying fruit is basically a process that replaces the water in fruit with sugar. Sugar keeps the fruit from spoiling, a preserving method that has been around since ancient... 
by Renee Pottle | Aug 23, 2018 | and sweet treats, Instagram, Recipes From the Garden
Marry the northeast and the northwest! Make an old-fashioned New England grunt with luscious peaches from Washington State. Baking is one of my all-time favorite hobbies. It seems a miracle that you can mix flour, sugar and various other ingredients, pop the whole... 
by Renee Pottle | Aug 22, 2018 | Canning and Preserving, Instagram, Jams
Peaches plus apricots plus honey combine for a desert-island worthy jam! What are your three desert-island foods? The three foods that you can’t live without? The three delicacies that cure a bad mood, soothe hurt feelings, and brighten your day? My desert-island... 
by Renee Pottle | Aug 21, 2018 | Canning and Preserving, Instagram, Jams
I can’t let anything go to waste, which I how I came up with this fruit butter concoction of mangoes, apricots, and peaches – sunshine fruits! August – perhaps the most perfect time of the year. Locally, instead of lions and tigers and bears (oh my!), August brings...