Total Survivalist Libertarian Bitch Fest

Finally am not in limbo an able to share my life again. For a good long while I had to be very mum about things because we were trying to ge...

Yes, that is me. I am sorry. I have been crazy busy the last few...umm...months...? My boys started school and I stupidly thought this would...

No, I didn't get fired. You have to have a paying job in order to get fired. Everything I do, I do as a volunteer. I am trying to ...

I was asked a few days ago if I would help with the canning department at the fair. I am unsure exactly what I will be doing but as long as ...

If you prep you should can or at least know how to. You probably can the usuals of veggies and jams. Peaches and green beans. Did you know s...

Last night I completed my second batch of canning goodness. I've had my pressure cooker/canner since Christmas but had not cracked it op...

My neighbor paid my boys to pick and deliver around 70 lbs of apples to me. I had no idea this was happening untill they pulled a wagon righ...

Here are Clara the depression cooks tip on how to survive hard times...

I've been canning a good amount of fruit lately. Mostly in the form of jams and pie fillings. In the next two weeks, both blueberries an...

We have a local strawberry farm that is a- maz - ing . It seems like summer doesn't start until they open for the season. Saturday morni...

Or at least it took an article from the New York Post for my sister to decide I hadn't completely lost my marbles.

I just got back from a on the fly trip to Northern California to my mom. It was pretty much a whirlwind, but we managed to see some family (...

So I picked up about 2.5 lbs of Green Beans on Friday and decided to make my first attempt at pickling. Or pickling of sorts anyway. A frie...

I know that it's April, but since Gracie and I have both had snow in the last week (stupid weather gods!) I really haven't been able...

Anyone who cooks regularly has faced the same dilemma. I like to call this Why-did-I-buy-this-piece-of-crap- itis . Everyone has that one ki...

After the Adventures at the Farmer's Market I had several pounds of beautiful cameo and granny smith apples, the great intention of mak...

My second round of jam went much better then the first. I followed the plain ol' strawberry jam recipe from inside the box of pectin I b...

So I gave up and tossed my original attempt at the strawberry freezer jam. I hate to do that, but I really had no way to salvage it. For rou...

I headed to the local grocery store last night after work to grab some groceries I needed for dinner, and since my dad had informed me that ...

One of the strongest memories I have from my early childhood is of my grandmother's strawberry freezer jam. Sadly, I wasn't smart en...