Butter Chicken Sauce for Canning

Makes 8-9 cups sauce Ingredients: 1 tablespoon olive oil or coconut oil4 medium onions, diced2 teaspoons salt4 teaspoons minced garlic2 teaspoons minced ginger root or ginger paste4 teaspoons turmeric4 teaspoons curry powder2 teaspoons cumin2-3 teaspoons garam masala4 teaspoons white or brown sugar3 tablespoons fish sauce1-3 tablespoons Thai red curry sauce**1 teaspoon Berbere – optional (for…

Ice Tea Concentrate

Decaffeinated Ice Tea Concentrate I really love ice tea on warm days – what I don’t like is all the caffeine that comes along with it. I also like to be able to control the amount of sweetener in my iced tea. I canned homemade tea concentrate a couple years ago and found one jar…

Barb’s Green Relish

Neighbor Barb also gave me her great recipe for Green Relish.  The first time I made it I was suprised that it didn’t look like store bought relish although it tasted like it.  I had some food colour in the pantry that I had purchased for adding to the kids homemade playdoh and luckily it…

Barb’s Dill Pickles

We have lovely neighbors.  We’ve been next to each other for 33 years.  When I started gardening and grew pickling cukes- or maybe it’s when Barb gave me a bag from her garden – she also gave me her recipe.  Every so often I phone her up and ask once again “do you put these…