When cooking some veggies… you just can be without a bit of bacon or side meat.  Grandma Ella and Momma always cooked snap beans, corn, turnip greens, and summer squash with bacon or pork side meat for an extra special flavor.  It’s a Southern thing. In the dead of winter, we would bring out the

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This simple Pear Jello Salad is so easy to make… your kids can help!) As a child, this was one of my favorite salads… and it is so simple.   Mom would open a bottle of her wonderful bottled pears and make this recipe for Sunday dinner. Ingredients: 1 lg. 6 oz. package of lime

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Canning pears has been a long standing tradition on our kitchen.  Grandma Ella canned them, mom canned them and my sisters and I carried on the legacy. Pears are always pick green so you have to let them ripen before you can put them up.  To get them to ripen all at one time,  place

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Easy Light Sugar Addition Here is a basic canning and preserving sugar addition for peaches and pears that is so simple…you’ll be amazed.  My mom and grandma Ella used this method because is was easy and less messy than the traditional method of adding a hot sugar syrup to your peaches and pears.   For

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For long term food storage there is nothing like having your bean soup put together… all ready for the soup pot.   This is a  wonderful, easy, long term storage item for your family.  Also, this bean soup mix makes an ideal gift for a friend. Calico Bean Soup Mix For Long Term Food Storage 2/3

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Grape juice is just the best, but homemade grape juice is better.  Every fall, I wait until the first frost kisses the grapes, then pick up my clippers and head for the grape vines.  I don’t personally have vines, but I have friends who share their grape harvest with me.  I look forward to making

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