The Ultimate Guide to Preserving Vegetables: Canning, Pickling, Fermenting, Dehydrating and Freezing Your Favorite Fresh Produce

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Master the best preservation techniques for every veggie in your garden with seamless instruction and incredible recipes. Angi Schneider, a homesteader herself, will teach you to prepare your harvest so you can enjoy home grown produce in any season. She'll lead you through everything you need to know from canning, pickling and fermenting to dehydrating and freezing-with step-by-step photos for every technique! Each chapter teaches you the most effective preservation method for each vegetable with guidelines for safe procedures and the tastiest results. Spice up your pantry with unique flavor twists like Fermented Thai Green Beans and Dried Carrot Chai Chips. By preserving your own produce, you ensure that every veggie is at its peak ripeness so that it retains the most nutrients. With 100 recipes for the most common garden produce, you can make the freshest jams, sauces, pickles and more from Canned Sweet and Spicy Radishes to Granny's Bread and Butter Pickles. Whether from your own garden or from the farmer's market, this book will help you make the most of your harvest. This book has 100 recipes and over 100 photos.

Angi Schneider lives on 1.5-acre homestead with her family. She is the creator of SchneiderPeeps, a blog that shares tips for organic gardening, real food cooking, preserving food and more. She has a combined social media following of over 26k. She has written for Countryside, has been interviewed on Organic Gardener Podcast and was featured in the documentary Beyond Off the Grid. She lives on the Gulf Coast of Texas.

"When you find yourself with an abundance of vegetables, Angi Schneider has got you covered. She makes home food preservation accessible to everyone--no experience required." --Kris Bordessa, author and creator of Attainable Sustainable "Using the tips, tricks and yummy recipes within, you'll learn to build a pantry guaranteed to make your great- grandmothers beam with pride." --Jan Berry, founder of The Nerdy Farm Wife, author of The Big Book of Homemade Products for Your Skin, Health & Home "This beautiful preserving guide is a must-have for your homestead kitchen. Angi's book is perfect for anyone wanting to preserve the harvest in every way possible!" --Colleen Codekas, founder of Grow Forage Cook Ferment, author of Healing Herbal Infusions "This is the perfect resource for any home gardener, CSA subscriber or farmers' market shopper. Angi gives concise recipes and ideas to keep your vegetables in the pantry for the next season. Even better are the creative and simple recipes to use those preserves in your meal planning routine." --Kathie N. Lapcevic, creator of Homespun Seasonal Living "I have books on dehydrating, books on fermentation, books on canning and freezing. But The Ultimate Guide to Preserving Vegetables not only has it all in one beautiful book, it goes a step further and provides information on growing and harvesting. I absolutely love the cheat sheets which give a quick comparison of all the methods of preservation for a particular vegetable so I can easily decide which method to choose. And to top it all off, dozens of tasty recipes are included so that I'm not just preserving plain vegetables, but soups and side dishes ready to serve when time is limited." --Susan Vinskofski, founder of Learning and Yearning "I've loved gardening all my life, and the one thing that drives me crazy is seeing my veggies go bad before I get the chance to use them. Well, problem solved! With Angi's book, I can turn all those fresh veggies into delicious treats that can be stored away for later. It's such a gift!" --Nicole Malik, author of Weeknight One-Pot Vegan Cooking, founder of Delicious Every Day "The Ultimate Guide to Preserving Vegetables is filled with beautiful photos and step by step directions for everything you need to preserve your garden harvest. This will be a resource I'll come back to again and again." --Kathy Berget, founder of Beyond the Chicken Coop "Angi shares great tips for preserving food that your family will love and using parts of the plant that might normally go in the compost. I love her ideas for making pesto with carrot and radish tops! The variety of recipes for each crop captures the fresh flavor and nutrients of your harvest while enticing your family to eat their veggies. I can't wait to try her Dried Cheesy Cauliflower Crisps recipe... yum! Many of these recipes are quick and easy, saving you time and using ingredients you already have on hand. If you are looking for a thorough guide on preserving vegetables from the market or your garden, this guide has got you covered... and then some!" --Lisa Lombardo, founder of The Self Sufficient HomeAcre "Angi makes preserving vegetables seem easy and gives so much useful information. This book is perfect for anyone that loves to garden, cook, or is interested in learning more homemaking skills." --Lisa Sharp, founder of Retro Housewife Goes Green "A beautifully scripted guide on preserving food and giving you the confidence to put healthy food in the pantry for your family that they will truly love to eat." --Darcy Baldwin, founder of The Purposeful Pantry