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I made pickled onion last night. The colour is so awesome 🥰 it is just red onion. I poured boiling vinegar/water/salt (half/half/tablespoon) solution over it. 12 hours later the red came out! #preserving

A medium sized jar that is vibrantly pink. You can see the strips of slice onion in there. On my kitchen bench.

Homemade Indian -inspired British Piccalilly.

Cauliflower is always too much for us two.
Bel-pepper, onion and other veggies always in the neighbourhood.
Spices and herbs too.

Two jars like on the photo filled for the price of one in any Dutch supermarket.
Amount of vegetables in homemade version is 54 %
The most expensive in the supermarket has 34 % vegetables.

Homemade is more spicy too.

#Preserving #piccalilly #food

glass-jar filled with different kinds of vegetables in a yellow curry-sauce.
Standing on a wooden surface

Just like the recipe said, I ended up with 9 pint jars of spaghetti sauce. And soon I'll be starting seeds for the 2026 garden! Wonder what I'll get to preserve next autumn/winter?

Here's the recipe I used - USDA (pre 2025) approved.

https://nchfp.uga.edu/how/can/how-do-i-can-tomatoes/spaghetti-sauce-without-meat/

#Gardening #Preserving #Cooking

Nine jars of homemade, canned, red spaghetti sauce on top of a table. Behind the jars is a box with canning rings and lids in it.

In progress - the last of the frozen tomatoes from last autumn's harvest finally being made into spaghetti sauce.

Once it gets to the proper thickness, into the canner it goes!

#Gardening #Preserving

A large, enameled black pot sits on a stover, with homemade spaghetti sauce bubbling and simmering in it.

Presenting: the jar of dehydrated purslane.

#Food #dehydration #preserving #foodPreservation #FromTheKitchen #WhatIAmCooking

a small to medium sized jar, wider than it is tall, full of crumbled dehydrated purslane.

The #purslane has been snipped into pieces and larger stems discarded, then whizzed in the high speed food processor* for 15 secs to make a nice slightly coarse paste to dehydrate. It took two completely full and compressed blenderings. I am having a cuppa before I spread onto sheets for the dehydrator.

I use a small stationery scissors at this stage - the stems of leaves are treated individually so I can remove juicy tops and side leaves very easily and discard anything too thick.

I had some ideas while making this paste. It would be AWESOME if I added onion and garlic as well and dehydrated the mix.

Also, the paste would ferment really well, I think, under its own liquid if I added salt.

So things to try for future purslane pickings.

*I often regret purchasing this large processor - it doesn't handle small jobs at all. But when you have a large chopping, slicing, grating, dough making etc job, it is so good. I just don't have them very often.

#Food #FromTheKitchen #WhatIAmCooking #Preserving #FoodPreservation #Vegetarian

Lots of purslane in your garden?

Here's how to dehydrate it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unSICmONyPY

and how to ferment it https://www.outdoorapothecary.com/purslane-recipe/

#FromTheGarden #Food #Purslane #FromTheKitchen #Preserving #Fermenting

for those that do #preserving and #pickling and what not, are the glass clip top jars any better or worse than reusing old jars (eg vegemite, peanut butter, garlic etc)?

I have found the jars with metal lids tend to rust a bit if you are doing pickles, so I am not super keen on going down the mason jar route

Another task today, #FromTheKitchen, is to pick, wash and prepare grape vine leaves (cut out the stem v-shaped from the leaves) and dry them.They dry easily and can be blended up to make a powder for cooking. It is excellent. If I get enough time I will also do some for freezing and/or brining, for making dolmades or other dishes in Autumn and Winter.

The young leaves, fresh, frozen or brined, can also be shredded and used in salads, sautes, etc.

#Food #VineLeaves #GrapeVineLeaves #Vegetarian #Preserving

Got tomatoes tipping into “too ripe”? Turn them into small‑batch tomato jam with spring onion, garlic, ginger, sage & rosemary. Perfect on ham sandwiches or roast leftovers. Recipe: https://bdabooks.com.au/Blog/2025/preserve-like-an-aussie-tomato-jam/
#TomatoJam #Preserving #Cooking

Rain/wintry mix plus dropping temps? Time to grab more of the frozen tomatoes and make salsa!

#Harvest #Preserving #Canning

A large, black, enameled pot on a stovetop with fresh, homemade salsa cooking in it.

A large, black, enameled pot with steaming, homemade salsa, and a mason jar in front of it, filled with the salsa. Other canning tools are around the pot - a funnel, ladle, spatula/headspace-measure-tool and a magnetic stick (to pull jar lids out of a bowl of hot water).

Finally started working on the many.many.many tomatoes I froze during harvest.

I've never done salsas or anything like that, so I consulted my Univ. Georgia Home Preserving book and found a couple of recipes.

First up was "tomato taco sauce" which is basically a salsa with vinegar instead of lemon juice. It's really tasty!

#Preserving #Canning

A large, black enameled stock pot on a stove top. It's full of tomatoes, peppers and other ingredients to make salsa.

Ten jars of homemade, home-canned tomato taco sauce (salsa) sit cooling on wire raps.

Braiding garlic turns out to be surprisingly difficult. This will have to do, and I hope the vampires won't mind.

#permaculture #homegrown #preserving

A bunch of garlic tied with black string and hung in a doorframe.

Aji Rojo jam! It ended up having a lot of red bell pepper because the aji peppers aren't very juicy. Either way, it tastes delicious and the leftovers in the pan are already setting. #food #chiles #peppers #preserving #cooking

Minced red peppers simmering in a metal pot.

Jars of red pepper jam cooling on a red kitchen towel.

A cracker topped with peanut butter and red jelly.

We might actually see some freezing temps here. I'm going to have to harvest my aji rojo chiles and prune the plant back so I can bring it indoors. I've probably got a pound or two of these small red chilies. Aji Rojo isn't spicy but otherwise tastes like a habanero. They keep well but I'm not going to eat them all before they go bad. What should I do with them? #food #chiles #peppers #gardening #preserving

I'm holding a couple of aji rojo chiles. They look like tiny red pumpkins.

Fermented Cabbage https://blog.bashynx.com/Homemaking/Preserving/2025-12-02-fermented-cabbage/ #Recipe #Homemaking #Preserving

Fresh pickled onions from the smaller ones out of today's harvest. The rest are laid out to dry and cure.

#permaculture #maker #preserving

From left to right, a small potted seedling, yellow zucchini, a sealed jar of pickled onion pieces, and a pumpkin.

The very old stone wall of our barn. Joints partially filled with newer and historic mortar. The two boards in the upper right corner were once part of the wood paneling in a residential building. Before the 1900, our stable was a residential building, and two or even more families originally lived in this house on two floors.

#old #history #barn #hay #traditonal #lime #stonewall #worth #preserving