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 | Apr 28, 2017 | Canning and Preserving, Jams
Fruit butters are so easy to make they are almost foolproof. You can be more creative with fruit butters than with jams or jellies since there is no worry about reaching the gelling point. If half way through the cooking process you decide to run an errand, you can... 
by Renee Pottle | Aug 12, 2016 | Dried, Recipes From the Garden
Gain control over your food! Make your own healthy granola. Granola is one of those foods that should be healthy. After all, most of us were introduced to granola as a health food. But then granola became an everyday item, a victim of its own success. You know once... 
by Renee Pottle | Aug 11, 2016 | Canned or Preserved Fruits and Vegetables, Canning and Preserving, Instagram
Combine tasty stone fruits and a bit of unusual spice for a mixed fruit treat. I was one of those kids who loved canned fruit cocktail. It seemed pretty exotic to those of us who lived in cold, remote places back in the ’60s. It also helped that as a kid I didn’t have...