Oven-Dried Tomatoes

What to do with a surplus of little sweet tomatoes from the garden?
Our daytime temperature is falling fast, but we’re still getting large handfuls of sweet grape tomatoes from the garden every day. After seeing the price of sun-dried tomatoes at the grocery store ($4.00 for a small bag? and look at the preservatives!) I [...]

Strawberry Jam

(Whew, back up and running finally! Sorry for the delay!)
There’s something about home-made jam. When we decided to go strawberry picking this year, I already had one thing in mind for the strawberries: jam. But how do you make jam. I had no idea. So… Internet to the rescue!
Bernardin, friend to Canadian home canners everywhere, [...]