Sustainable ME - living and growing locally

  Ingredients 1 cup baking soda 3/4 lavender flowers/buds  10 - 15 drops lavender oil    Materials Bowl Spoon Shaking container (like empty ...

 This recipe details exactly what I have done the last few years with freezing carcasses and decent compost to make stock that I then pressu...

 Nothing better than a home made recipe, even if it is archaic and a bit abstract.  MerryMeetingMenuMayonnaise https://merrymeetingmenu.blog...

 Another family recipe from the farm that looks like a great pressure canning addition.  General Stock https://merrymeetingmenu.blogspot.com...

 It's so exciting to find a family recipe for something I can can and give away for Christmas! Green Tomato Relish https://merrymeetingm...

            Oh My Goodness I was so excited to stumble upon this recipe card in my box. It's not a food but rather a body product which ...

 Fall is here and so is the canning season! Concord Grape Jam is in the books! https://merrymeetingmenu.blogspot.com/2020/09/concord-grape-j...

Making a sourdough starter is certainly the quickest thing I have done in my kitchen. I am hoping it takes off as planned!

I am venturing into the world of sour dough starter for the first time as part of this months Food in Jars challenge. I will be following th...

After discovering how amazing Meyer Lemon Curd was, I decided that I would do a third challenge for January. I made lime curd and it did ...

There is nothing better to warm the kitchen in the winter than the cleansing smell of a simmering marmalade. I found this recipe in the ...

This curd is a lemon meringue pie in a jar. I chose the recipe from Marisa McClellan's book Food In Jars but a similar recipe can be ...

I can see the finish line right around the corner. The walls are painted and the flooring is in.  ...

I have a goal for this summer: don't let the heat keep me out of the garden. I have a plan to make this years garden the best Resistance...

This was the simplest act of sustainability I have ever done, and it is SO pretty! and a day later... voila! I can...

As I searched for recipes for violets, I learned that lilacs are another edible flower and was immediately entranced by the task of findin...

A boy in the grass picking flowers June is a jam month for the Food in Jars Mastery Challenge and I need to be honest, I really wanted t...

Look at that rich color left from Fiddleheads! I don't know why I didn't think of it before learning it from Marisa at FoodinJa...

Finally, I am a believer! Round one of dandelion jelly ended like this: What did I do, make a scoby? After a morbidly awful first r...