Baking Children fall freezing frugal living recipes Self sufficiency summer trees What to do with apples, part 1: Apple Pie Filling Yesterday, Mr. Zen and I got the opportunity to pick apples at a local orchard. We left with about 2 bushels of apples - over 80 … Thursday, August 20, 2009 Add Comment Edit
canning freezing frugal living garden Self sufficiency Southern living summer Freezing and canning purple hull peas Purple hull peas are coming in! I grew up on purple hull peas. They're my favorite! Purple hull peas are a Southern pea and… Tuesday, August 11, 2009 Add Comment Edit
dehydrating food safety frugal living preparedness Self sufficiency About dehydrators and which one I use Wow, I really opened the flood gates when I started talking about dehydrating! I've received a ton of questions about it. K… Thursday, August 6, 2009 Add Comment Edit
ask TennZen cooking dehydrating frugal living preparedness recipes Self sufficiency Ask TennZen: Dehydrated Scalloped Potatoes It's time for another edition of "Ask TennZen," in which I do my best to answer your questions. As always, any advi… Tuesday, August 4, 2009 Add Comment Edit
dehydrating frugal living garden preparedness Self sufficiency survival Dehydrating and how to ease into it Last week was no fun. Stomach flu made the rounds at Chez Zen and it wasn't pretty. Anyway, we're all better now and I… Monday, August 3, 2009 Add Comment Edit
canning contests frugal living Fun garden Self sufficiency Southern living summer Summer time is busy time - and fair results Garden update: Squash is producing full-tilt. I already have 8 gallons of sliced squash in the freezer and more coming in every … Monday, July 20, 2009 Add Comment Edit
canning frugal living recipes Self sufficiency summer Canning crushed or diced tomatoes Probably the most popular thing that people can is tomatoes. It's a great way to extend that unbeatable homegrown tomato fla… Tuesday, July 14, 2009 Add Comment Edit
canning jelly recipes Self sufficiency Southern living summer Blackberry jam using liquid pectin We picked a big mess of blackberries and one of the things I did with them was make blackberry jam. Normally I use powdered pecti… Thursday, July 9, 2009 Add Comment Edit