Category: Preservation

• How to Bake & Freeze Spaghetti or Buttercup Squash

  

  We love squash! Unfortunately, we don’t have a good place to store our squash over the winter. So, we now have it ready made and in the freezer! It is really easy to include squash in quick meals now! I am combining both spaghetti and buttercup squash into one post because they are similar in…

  Carissa Curfman

  April 25, 2023

  Garden, Preservation

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• How to Blanch & Freeze Butternut Squash

  

  Butternut squash soup is one of my favorite meals. Last fall, we preserved our butternut squash by blanching and freezing in portions needed to make our favorite butternut squash soup recipe (from the Magnolia Table cookbook, first book). I would share the recipe, but it isn’t mine to share! It can be found on the…

  Carissa Curfman

  March 14, 2023

  Garden, Preservation

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• Garden Lasagna: Recipe Using Ingredients Preserved from the Garden

  

  Using garden produce year round is such an awesome thing! I’m totally bias, but I think it tastes WAAAAAAYYYYY better! I have been making spaghetti sauce for a couple of years now, but this winter I decided to try using it to make lasagna too! After quite a bit of lasagna tasting, I feel it…

  Carissa Curfman

  February 28, 2023

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• Ways to Preserve Fresh Tomatoes

  

  If you have been following this blog since the beginning (thanks family and friends!) you maybe (but probably don’t haha) remember that my first ever post was about having too many tomatoes from the garden. Tomatoes have been something that I have loved to grow. I have learned a lot about ways to preserve them…

  Carissa Curfman

  November 1, 2022

  Garden, Preservation

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• How to Blanch and Freeze Carrots

  

  Harvest season is always very rewarding as a gardener. One of the largest crops we pull from the garden in the fall is our carrots. For the past few years, we have planted the Tendersweet variety of carrot. We continue to be a huge fan of this variety! We harvest carrots periodically during the summer…

  Carissa Curfman

  October 27, 2022

  Garden, Preservation

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