Jewel Weed Salve

This is the first of September and the Jewel Weed is in full bloom. I just love this plant.  I love the beautiful flowers, I love the healing value of this plant and I love playing with the seed pods. When you touch fully ripe ones they burst open and send the seeds flying. Great fun.
Summer often brings [...]

Making Sour Cream and Buttermilk

The other day I talked about some of the things I am changing to get ready for the slow season around here, this means winter. I don’t like trips into town and put it off until I have to go when winter sets in it’s even worse. One single flake of snow and I’m not going [...]

Jelly Update

I thought this morning I would sent this post to Debbie and a couple of others who left some questions about making strawberry jelly. Since it is berry & fruit season there are lots of other recipes to make as well. Here is the link to the Strawberry Jelly recipe.
Q:
I do not have any canning equipment, [...]

Lets Make Jelly

I mentioned yesterday about making some strawberry jelly and boy did it turn out good. I tried some with mint and black pepper in it, while good in it’s own way it’s not for my favorite peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches or my favorite toast with strawberry jam. It will be good for cooking, [...]