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Freezing Garlic in Olive Oil

November 5, 2014 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate 1 Comment

How to store your garlic by freezing it in olive oil

Here’s a quick and easy way to have garden fresh garlic all year long.  Each year I plant a couple of big rows of garlic bulbs in the fall–and late each summer I have a nice harvest of garlic.  We replant the biggest cloves, eat some fresh and store some in the basement, but I… Keep Reading

Filed Under: Frugal Living Tagged With: food preservation, Freezing, Garlic

Reader’s Question: Can you use “carving” pumpkins for cooking and dehydrating?

November 14, 2013 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate 2 Comments

Dear Frugal Upstate, I was looking at your How to Dehydrate Pumpkins post and was wondering–do you have to use pie pumpkins or can you use uncarved pumpkins from Halloween? Britty That’s a good question Britty! The short answer is yes, you can use an uncarved Halloween pumpkin, but the flavor might not be very… Keep Reading

Filed Under: Reader's Questions Tagged With: dehydrating, Food, food preservation, Reader's Questions

Cranberry Conserve ~ A Canning for Thanksgiving Recipe

November 13, 2013 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate 5 Comments

Thanksgiving is right around the corner (closely followed by Christmas, but shhhhh. . . we don’t even want to think about that yet!).  It’s time to start planning your holiday meal! Since Walmart is your one stop shopping destination for everything you could want for a fantastic Thanksgiving dinner, they asked me to share a… Keep Reading

Filed Under: Recipes, Sponsored Tagged With: canning, condiment, cranberries, food preservation, preserving, Thanksgiving, walmart moms

Freezing Corn on the Cob

September 24, 2013 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate 2 Comments

I’m preserving up a storm here at the Frugal Village Homestead. . . Sweet corn is in season, so I decided it was time to freeze some corn on the cob.  Although I don’t plant corn myself, our lovely village is surrounded by dairy farms.  For those of you who don’t know the connection–dairy farms… Keep Reading

Filed Under: Frugal Food Tagged With: corn, food preservation, food storage, Freezing

Processing Tomatoes for Sauce

September 10, 2013 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate 5 Comments

This weekend I processed tomatoes and made my own tomato sauce! Since my gorgeous tomato plants were decimated by Late Blight (grrr!) I purchased tomatoes from our local farmers market.  I purchased two 25lb boxes of Roma tomatoes for $19 each.  We started out by washing them.  Buddy helped me to lay them on some… Keep Reading

Filed Under: Frugal Food, Preparedness Tagged With: canning, food preservation, Tomatoes

Getting Prepared for a Canning Session

August 16, 2013 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate 5 Comments

Canning is a wonderful way to create a long term store of healthy, cost effective food for your family.  The whole process goes much more smoothly with a little bit of organization. . . so today I want to show you how I get prepared for a canning session. This is the process I go… Keep Reading

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About Frugal Upstate

About Frugal Upstate

I’m Jenn –an Upstate NY wife, mom, blogger and veteran. I talk very fast, read constantly, take on too much and make plenty of mistakes. I’m a real person, not perfection. I love to talk about the frugal lifestyle, “Village Homesteading”, living a more sustainable lifestyle and being prepared for all the curves life throws at you.

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