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Showing posts with label Fruit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fruit. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Green Tomato Mincemeat Pie Filling

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This is a great way to use some of the green tomatoes left in the garden. I chose to use the small cherry tomatoes for this, cut into qu...
Saturday, November 8, 2014

Putting Up Pear Preserves

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Friday, October 24, 2014

Introducing... Pecan Corner on You Tube! Canning, Cooking, Southern Food and Budget Abundance

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As Paul has gotten better, he is now feeling like doing more even though he is still mostly house-bound. He has watched a lot of You Tube du...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

The Odd and Wild "Texas Persimmons" Are Ripening Now

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The Wild Texas Persimmons are ripe! These turn black when ripe, and unlike orange persimmons, they don't need a frost.  The trees are...
Monday, July 14, 2014

SUCCESS!!!! Beautiful Heirloom Tomatoes

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I set a goal last Winter, in the cold, here at home looking after my husband in his slow and steady recovery from a life-saving surgery,...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Linocuts and Letterpress: Printing Seed Packets and Cottage Food Labels

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I've been having fun this year in the print shop, turning out seed packets for saving seeds in.  The Pecan Corner Press is a hobby, a...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Homemade Sweet Cherry Ice Cream: First Freeze of Summer Fresh Fruit

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 I know it isn't quite Summer yet, but it is here since I have made the first batch of homemade ice cream. It is cherry season, at le...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Roses & Pecan Trees are Blooming!

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 These are from the only rosebush that survived the drought, but oh aren't they gorgeous! Paul commented that they "are almos...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

A Fresh Strawberry Cake for a Springtime Birthday Dinner

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Our granddaughter (or "Grand angel" as Paul calls her) asked for a strawberry cake and filet mignon for her birthday. Oh boy! I g...
Friday, January 6, 2012

How To Section a Grapefruit (or an Orange) and Remove the Membranes

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I nearly forgot to share this. and here we are in Texas Citrus Season again. The sweetest, most amazing grapefruits in the whole world are ...
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Devil's Food Torte with Raspberries

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Paul had a birthday recently, and it was a big one milestone, so we had some of our friends over for cake. When I asked Paul what kind of c...
Monday, July 26, 2010

Putting Up Peaches: Peach Chutney For A Change

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It's Peach Season! Time to eat all we can and can all we can't. ;-) I love canning - it's one of those tasks where we get to enj...
Monday, January 11, 2010

The Naturalist's Vintage Calendar

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This page for the week of January 10 through 16 from the 1926 John Burrough's Calendar reads " The apples that cling to the trees,...
Monday, October 12, 2009

Hackberries and Hackberry Firewood

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There was a small hackberry scrub tree next to the road where I gathered prickly pears, and I had to eat a couple of the ripe hackberries. W...
Monday, September 28, 2009

How To Make Prickly Pear Cactus Jelly Part 3

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Be sure the see the first post (How to find and gather) and the second post (how to prepare the fruit and juice). If you have not made jel...
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Friday, September 25, 2009

How To Make Prickly Pear Cactus Jelly Part 2

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The first post told how to find and gather the ripe prickly pears. You might want to refer back to it if you just arrived. This post is p...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

How To Make Prickly Pear Cactus Jelly Part 1

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One of my favorite things to make for Christmas gifts for many years was Prickly Pear Jelly. Devin asked me last year to make some, and Alvi...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Orange Zest, Candied Carrots and Helping Out

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Our county has a shared Christian social ministry center that all of the local churches, local businesses, and local people help support. It...
Wednesday, September 2, 2009

The Last of Summer

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There's been a change in the air all week. Autumn is coming. Paul mentioned this morning that the days are already getting shorter. Arou...
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Putting Up Pear Preserves

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The pear crop is coming on, and my friends let me come pick some from their heavily laden tree. I love picking fruit! Pears on a tree are a...