by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Fermenting & Cheesemaking, Our Kitchen, Recipes
It’s the start of apple season, even up north here in Fairbanks. That means it’s the start of eating fresh apples and making homemade apple pies, applesauce, dried apples, apple cider, and apple cider vinegar. Fairbanks is a tough place to grow apples....
by Jessica | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Canning & Pickling, Our Kitchen, Recipes
I grow a large garden every year but, never large enough to fulfill all of my canning needs, so off to our local farmers market I go. August is an amazing month at the farmers market, everything is available in bulk, at a great price. 25 lbs of tomatoes go for $14,...
by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Baking, Our Kitchen, Recipes
The end of July marks wild blueberry season in Fairbanks, the transition season where summer ends and the rainy fall season of August begins. This is a short, high-intensity season where you maybe have a two to three-week window to pick you blueberries for the...
by Jessica | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Canning & Pickling, Our Kitchen, Recipes
Every family has that quick weeknight meal that takes moments to prepare and is loved by everybody. When I was a kid it was grilled cheese and Campbell’s tomato soup. To a 7-year-old it was THE BEST DINNER EVER. I love to share the things that I enjoyed as a...
by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Our Kitchen, Recipes
While talking with a friend the other day I mentioned I needed to buy some honey at the Farmer’s Market. He then surprised me by saying he received 5 gallons of honey for a wedding gift but didn’t know what you use honey for. After giving him a wide-eyed...
by Jessica | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Canning & Pickling, Our Kitchen, Recipes
When summer berries are ripe, I fill my freezer and wait for cooler weather to start canning. Some garden produce must be canned right away, not so with berries. I clean them an put them in a single layer on a cookie sheet and freeze them like that. After a day or two...
