We received a box of peaches, many of which were bruised, had insect damage, or other blemishes. We decided to cut out the bad bits and make peach butter, reserving the few unblemished ones for making brandied peaches. Continue reading
Each year, we get fresh mountain huckleberries from McCall, Idaho. They are fantastic fresh, in pies or tarts, or made into jam or syrup. We really enjoy them, and like to stretch them out over the course of the year.
This is our recipe for huckleberry jam.
We’ve been dehydrating Walla Walla Sweets like mad this year, keeping the dehydrator going ’round the clock. This is actually the first time we’ve used our dehydrator, so we spent some time looking for information about drying onions with a high water content like Walla Walla Sweets and didn’t find much. While this information is fairly simple, it doesn’t appear to be out there anywhere else. Please let us know if you find this helpful.
We received a large quantity of organic Walla Walla Sweet onions and needed to find creative ways to put them up, as they have a very short shelf life. We’ve been drying a ton of them, and pickled some, but I wanted to try an onion jam. I came up with this and really love it.