Category Archives: cooking

The big set of letters in the title actually stand for: University of California Cooperative Extension Master Food Preserver And I am officially one! Now I get to practice my skills and hopefully will be able to pass along what … Continue reading →

I usually can based on what I find at the farmers’ market. A couple of weeks ago I was intrigued by the beans one vendor had and I remembered that the instructor for the pressure canning class I took with … Continue reading →

For the third time I went and picked up fruit from my brother-in-law’s family compound of interconnected yards. (Which in years past was the normal. Families sharing the land and the work. And is still the case as I observed … Continue reading →

My brother-in-law, Ken, sent a text saying that there was a lot of fruit available at his house for the taking. I went last Friday and picked up some. We ate some and juiced the rest of the lemons and … Continue reading →

Ok, ok, so my last post said we all get too much sugar during the holidays but a friend and I decided to make sweet treats for our husbands as gifts. She wanted to make homemade peanut butter cups and … Continue reading →