Back to Our Roots

Couple canning projects going on the shelves for this winter.

You don’t have to plant a garden to start canning and preparing your homes for an emergency situation. A few weeks back my local Kroger had pineapples on sale for $.88 each with a limit of 5. I picked up my 5 pineapples and canned them to put up in my emergency pantry.

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Zucchini flour.

Might be old news to some, but you never know right. With rising concerns on wheat costs just thought I’d share it.

There’s probably fancier ways of doing this out there, but here’s how I learned. Easy peasy. Nothing to it.

We love and make tons of zucchini flour every year. You may have heard it called Amish flour or troops flour before. It’s a Staple in Amish and Mennonite household for generations here. It was also embraced in the 1940’s during rationing.

You let your zucchini grow, oversized is actually better. Large to extra large. Marrow sized. I peel mine with a carrot peeler, into thin even strips for less drying time. Or slide it through a mandolin for speed of prep.

Run it through the electronic dehydrator or just thread it. . No large seeds if possible for finer texture. Everything else is fine. It must be absolutely dry. It’s essential. If in doubt always dry it more, any moisture will ruin it during storage

Then run it through a food processor or hand grinder until you have a powdered consistency. It will be a marbled green looking power. Texture is similar to a good quality whole wheat flour. That is zucchini flour. Three large zucchini is about four or five cups for me finished.

It can be used to replace 1/3 of flour in most recipes without any change to the finished products, acts as a thickening agent for gravies, great for breading fish but we really tend use ours for tortillas and bannock since those are our quick go to breads. It also makes great dumplings and brownies.

Store in air tight jars , or we often vac pac ours

For us, we still purchase grains from a local family owned grist mill. So this is free, sustainable, easily produced on site and it has a mild taste. Most people wouldn’t pickup on it. It cuts our flour usage by a third . You can do the same with sweet and regular potato, other squash acorns, and pumpkin. I just find myself zucchini is the least flavoured. Plus we get overloaded by the darn things.
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Canned some homemade cranberry juice today
1 1/2 cups fresh cranberries
1/2 cup sugar
Fill jars with hot water
Water bath process for 25 mins
Let it sit on shelf for 4-6 weeks

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Got some green chili’s canned.

Canning sessions are good for the soul!

Well I got the fertilizer down just in time this morning!

My future mother in law showing out this year with her cottage garden!! Look out how full it already looks! Soon she will be having some tomatoes and squash to harvest!

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I had some volunteer onions come up there year. So I decided to let them go to seed for future onions.. stay tuned on seed saving

Strawberries looking good this year!

My happy place!!

Today started a new chapter in my life at my soon to be homestead

Getting some seed potatoes ready to go into the ground!

Yesterday was a beautiful day to get your hands dirty and plant something!!!

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After three days of practicing. I have finally made some decent biscuits! They may not look the prettiest but their definitely not hockey pucks like I started.

New grow station set up!

I couldn’t help myself. I had to go see all the baby chickens!!