I picked up a cookbook last week to peruse some canning recipes and what I saw left me cold. Two recipes, one for preserving green beans, the other for asparagus, called for processing the vegetables ...

A beginner’s guide to water bath canning for fresh tomatoes.

There s nothing better than biting into a perfectly ripe peach or dicing just-picked tomatoes for a quick summer salad. Except, perhaps, enjoying that same peach or tomato during the dead of winter.