Tag: carrots

  • Canning Anxieties Conquered

    Canning Anxieties Conquered

    Patience was the missing ingredient my friends. I spent more time on foreplay, allowing the pot to heat up gently. I eased it back down too, once the weights got to gently rocking and rolling, and then when the ingredients were at the perfect moment, I waited for the weights to completely stop moving before…

  • Canning Anxieties Revealed

    Yesterday was my day to can carrots, which I did, but I had some troubles that weren’t entirely unexpected, and then learned, from people who know better than me, that I shouldn’t even be using my new (sort of) electric canner. This is proof that after more than a decade of all this homesteading stuff,…

  • Canning Anxieties Revealed

    Yesterday was my day to can carrots, which I did, but I had some troubles that weren’t entirely unexpected, and then learned, from people who know better than me, that I shouldn’t even be using my new (sort of) electric canner. This is proof that after more than a decade of all this homesteading stuff,…

  • Planning for Canning

    So later today will finally be the time to combine my sliced carrots and fresh rosemary with my home made chicken broth, minus the soup I made with some of it last night (not in the masterplan either but I have a sore throat and it was good to me.)

  • Food is Beautiful

    Food is Beautiful

    Many times I feel like stopping chopping to take a picture. Most of the time I don’t actually stop, except to appreciate the unmatchable art of Nature.

  • Carrot Tops for the Chickens

    Carrot Tops for the Chickens

      I give a lot of goodies from the garden to the ladies. Every time they see me, they expect something. This time I was harvesting my carrots and they got the tops.

  • Carrot Tops for the Chickens

    Carrot Tops for the Chickens

      I give a lot of goodies from the garden to the ladies. Every time they see me, they expect something. This time I was harvesting my carrots and they got the tops.