Living Homegrown Podcast With Theresa Loe

Sometimes, you might want to make small batch preserves such as enticing pickles, chutneys, jams, or other condiments and NOT "can" them. Perhaps you just have a few extra tomatoes or cucumbers and you need a tasty way to use them up. Or maybe you have an event where you just need a jar or two of preserves to include on the table -- But you don't want to break out the canner. Well, the book featured in today's episode would be the answer in those situations. It's called: Savory Sweet: Simple Preserves From A Northern Kitchen and host Theresa Loe interviews one of the authors (Beth Dooley) about why she and co-author Mette Nielsen wrote a preserving book without any "canning" in it.  You'll learn:  About the freedoms that come from not canning How the book was specifically designed for food gardeners Why small batches allow for more experimentation The challenges of creating a cookbook that works for everyone How to make a Sweet Pickled Winter Squash And you can download a free PDF version of the Pickled S