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Ok, while I am no Euell Gibbons, I do like to keep a lookout for wild foods. I recently picked crabapples and made a lovely and delicious jelly. I have picked lots of wild berries, eaten wild greens, wild carrots, onions and nuts, and seaweed when we lived on the coast. What have you...

So this year I decided to grow my own popcorn. It matured, I shucked the ears, now what? The kernels are too hard to dent with a fingernail, but I can tell they aren't as dry as popcorn should be. Do I leave the cobs sitting out for a while? Can I put them in my dehydrator? It's so humid here...

I would do what Pat suggested, and boil them well before using.

I like adding peanut butter to my granola. Or cocoa powder in with the wet ing. or chocolate chips. Not so healthy, I know, but tasty. And the chocolate chips make the granola clump together better. I like large chunks, not a bunch of little pieces. I like to make granola before I move, it...

If you are going to try cooking your own dried beans, make sure you don't boil them in hard water. They will never really soften, and the flavor isn't nearly as good. We have VERY hard water and I have to use distilled water to cook beans in. Will you be using solar heat in the winter? What...

I regularly thicken my soups with potatoe flakes, most of my soups have potatoes in them anyway, so the extra potatoe flavor isn't amiss. They do take a few minutes to work though. I have ended up with VERY thick soup by adding too much too fast.

Pineapple, lemons, olives and cranberries. None of them grow around here, but I refuse to give them up. Oh, and not just any lemons, I like the really expensive (but oh so worth it) Meyer lemons. If I had a greenhouse, I would try to grow them, but alas, I don't have a greenhouse.....yet. :P

Today I canned 5 pints of chicken stock, 12 jars of salsa, and 8 jars of crabapple jelly. I have never had crabapples in any form, but there is a tree bearing tons of them just outside the gate (we live part time on a military base) so I asked the guards if I could pick them. They were suprised...

Hmm, good to know. Now, if I could just find room in my freezer I'll have to try that. Thanks.

Cajeta or milk fudge, coconut custard pie (uses a lot of milk and eggs, but is pretty healthy) crepes use a suprising amount of milk. I am not a fan of frozen and thawed milk. I have tried it and don't like the flavor. Of course my milk is raw.

I have a love/hate relationship with my pressure canner, but I mostly hate how my jars all come out coated in a film of minerals. We have REALLY hard water, and the steam really gets the jars. I know that is the water's fault, but I blame the pressure canner. Also, I wish I had a smaller...