Freezing Cherries

Bing Cherries

Back in April I blogged about how easy it is to freeze strawberries. Today I am talking about Bing Cherries. Have you ever noticed that certain fruits taste like the season they are ripe in? For instance, strawberries definitely taste like spring. Peaches and cherries taste like summer; those really tart apples taste like fall, and pomegranates taste like winter. When you freeze fruits you can pull them out of the freezer in the winter time and taste a different [...]

Quick Tip Tuesdays – Freezer Food

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I am starting a little something new here.  Every Tuesday I hope to leave you with a quick tip to help simplify your busy life. Today I am going to share one of my favorite ways to have “emergency” freezer food on hand. We try, emphasis on the try to eat healthy. And I think we all know that pre-made foods are not very healthy. So that leaves me making dinner or heating up leftovers most evenings for dinner. The [...]

Chipotle Strawberry Jam

Chipotle Strawberry Jam

 Last week at a blog hop I came across the most delicious sounding recipe ever!  It was for  Chipotle Strawberry Jam,  it sounded so good that the next time I went to the store I bought strawberries to make some. I ended up with about 8 pint, I say about because I kept “sampling” while I was making it.   It ended up a little sweeter than I like jam to be, so next time I will not use so [...]

Strawberries!

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Imagine, if you can, me saying strawberries.  You see when I say strawberries, especially if I’m excited, it comes out like this, “Strawberreeees!!!”    So it’s the middle of March, when ordinarily, strawberries are still pretty expensive.  Hubby and I decide to make a grocery run before supper.   We walk into Meijer and the first thing I see, is the produce display, with strawberries priced at under a dollar a quart!  “Strawberreees!” Yes, I said that, right there in produce section, [...]