Preserving

Dehydrating Carrots

Carrot harvests from the garden come in large loads – too many to simply store in the refrigerator.  Our last harvest filled nearly both produce drawers and we don’t eat them that fast.  Carrots are excellent storage vegetables and can be stored long term in a root cellar, but without one, our summer carrots get …

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Preserving

Saving Tomatoes for Canning

So you want to can tomatoes or tomato sauce, but you only get a couple tomatoes at a time. What can you do? It’s never enough to can even a single can of tomatoes at a time and by the time you get more, they are likely to go bad, right? Well, yes and no. …

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