Category Archives: Canning & Preserving

September 16, 2011

A Few Good Tomatoes

If you don’t follow me on Instagram, you probably missed the comment-inducing photo of my dining table coated in a layer of ripening plum tomatoes. Yes, covered. Dan’s rough estimations put the tomato count at somewhere between 300 and 400. That is a lot of tomatoes.

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August 5, 2011

Preserving the Bounty 2011

For the third year in a row, Berkshire Grown is offering a spate of canning and preserving workshops throughout Berkshire county. Check out the full calendar at the Berkshire Grown website for details.

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August 1, 2011

Cucumber Overload

Twenty pounds of cucumbers is a lot of cucumbers. What would you do with them?

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February 15, 2011

Carrot Fire Pickle

If your world is still covered in a slippery layer of ice — like the one that slid off my roof yesterday afternoon — the zippy-hot zing of mustard in these pickles will warm you right up.

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September 1, 2010

An Addiction?

It’s hard to explain why, a mere 48 hours before I’m due to leave on a long-weekend trip, I’d trip out into the fields at my CSA farm and haul out another twenty-five pound bag of plum tomatoes.

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