Happy New Year BlueSky friends! May this year bring happiness and peace! 💕💙🕊️

😋 Our last recipe of the year! Not suggesting you should start rolling your the dough today, but hey if that's your ideal way to celebrate New Year, who are we to judge 👩‍🍳🧑‍🎄🥂 cannedexperience.com/homemade-tor... This tortellini takes make-ahead meals to another level. 🍽️🍝🍜 #foodsky Eat well #foodies

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate tomorrow! 🎄🎄🎄👩‍🍳 Happy Holidays to ALL ❄️☃️🏂⛷️💙

We created a new page with Amazon links: tinyurl.com/y87pjbnt You don’t have to buy, but you might enjoy reading about our trusted canning resources- well-loved books, jars with PERPETUALLY REUSABLE LIDS (yes, Weck) & tools we actually use 🫙🍽️ Cheers to your wholesome budget-friendly kitchen #foodies

Did you ever hear about adjusting your cookies recipe to high altitude??? Apparently one has to increase the flour content and decrease baking time a bit... 🧑‍🍳🍪 ⛰️🏔️

📽️👇 Homemade Belgian Pear Syrup Recipe - How-to video. All you need is soft (imperfect) pears + some sugar. recipe: 👉 cannedexperience.com/how-to-make-... It'd make a great Xmas present for our friend L 👸 ...if we don't finish it ourselves by next week... Happy Holidays #foodies! 🍽️🍐🎄🫙

#cider 🍎🍐 Last year, we visited our favorite neighborhood café and tasted their pear cider, which was unlike anything we have ever had before. It was sweet, spicy, and absolutely addictive. We had had to create our own version - on a budget! cannedexperience.com/apple-pear-c... 👩‍🍳😋🍽️🥂 #foodsky

December @WestCoast #forest #photo

#whatscooking #foodies #cider Two latest preseves come together to make this special seasonal drink - spiked pear cider with pear syrup de Liege! Plus a dollop of whipped cream of course Pear Cider recipe: coming soon Syrup recipe: 👇 😋🍐🫙👩‍🍳🍽️🥂

Why make Belgian pear syrup? Maybe because it is simple while sophisticated: all you need is fresh fruit (pears and apples), sugar, and a secret ingredient – time! 👩‍🍳🍽️😋🍐🫙⏰ Recipe share: How to Make Classic Belgian Pear Syrup (Siroop de Liège) cannedexperience.com/how-to-make-... Eat well #foodies!

#whatscooking #foodies We made a new Seasonal preserve - this syrup de Liege is a perfect way to use up all your less than perfect pears and apples. it is Belgian classic made using the famous Parisian confectionery's recipe. 😋👩‍🍳🍽️🫙 Great for pancakes and Belgian meatballs sauce! Recipe: today! 🍐🍎🍲

#whatscooking We opened a jar of our Concord Grape Mostarda (2023). What a treat! It’s from our sweet & savory collection, inspired by an old Italian recipe. Turned out it is not only a cheese-plate star, but also a perfect sauce for duck confit. Recipe 👉 cannedexperience.com/concord-grap... 🍽️👩‍🍳🫙🍗

Attention, turkey-leftover aficionados! If your fridge looks like a post-holiday crime scene, I bring peace: turkey leftover ravioli. It’s cozy, it’s clever, and it’s the only way to avoid the annual “I guess we’ll freeze it” guilt spiral #turkey #leftovers cannedexperience.com/how-to-make-... 🍽️😋🍗🦃🍝

We are getting ready for those snowy stormy (slippery) days! ☃️❄️ This year we are collecting our used coffee grounds - it became our goto anti slippery solution: environment and budget friendly alternative to ice melt/sand. It does NOT melt the ice but provides great traction. Even on our hill 🌍🌍🌳

#cooksky 🍽️🍜 Make blueberry pound cake, kid said. I said sure, blueberry lemon? Kid said nothing. Kid ate the cake and said they didn’t want lemon. Anyone want blueberry lemon almond cake with lemon glaze?

#whatscooking #foodies 🎄 #giftidea You could buy a jar of generic "spiced" apple butter. You could also wrap a Christmas gift in a grocery bag …or you could make this Apple Butter with Cardamom and Chardonnay at home and feel very proud about it! Happy #canning 🫙 #foodsky Recipe: tomorrow 👩‍🍳🍽️😋🍎

Happy #caturday This is one of my very favorite cat photos, an alley cat on the roof! Yes, he’s got some sausage for posing 🤣 💙🐈

Just a Wednesday #photo #mushrooms 💕🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🌿

Inspirational quotes from other people. #quotes #memes #inspiration #carljung #bellhooks #philosophy #history #psychological #feminist #womanhood

mushrooms. Just for fun.

#holiday #recipes This year before you panic-buy cans of jiggly mystery cranberry goo, breathe. You can do better. Sharing our super easy seasonal cranberry sauce and its sassy cousin, cranberry chutney, recipes - see the comments👇 Your turkey deserves the best. So do you! 💕 eat well #foodies 🍽️😋👩‍🍳🍝🎄

#whatscookingfoodies Got chanterelles on hand? Skip the Finnish mushroom coffee trend and make chanterelle soup instead. It is delicious now, freezable for later, and perfect for many cozy lunches. 👉 cannedexperience.com/yellowfoot-a... #foodsky #foodies #recipeoftheday #soup 👩‍🍳😋🍲🍜🥣🍽️🍄‍🟫 Budget: 👇

Did fall foraging or farmers market **gifted** you chanterelles of any kind?That's a sign that the chanterelles soup is in your future. Stay tuned for recipe #mushrooms #foodsky 👩‍🍳🍽️😋🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫

Fall! This is a soup season, with an occasional dumplings dinner. About 6 yummy dinners for those lazy days when you are not willing to spend more than 10 min on cooking. Costs: filling $25 + dough under $5. Plus about 3 hrs of our time (chatting mostly, with a tea break) 🤣 👩‍🍳🍽️😋🍜🥟 Recipe below. 👇

Many of us are interested in mushroom foraging. But what to do once you brought your bounty home? New post alert: How to clean & preserve boletes & slippery jacks: cannedexperience.com/how-to-clean... Eat well #foodies! Self-efficiency rocks 🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫👩‍🍳🍽️🍁

Happy Sunday! #dogs

Laughlin, Nevada / Bullhead City, Arizona Calm gathers where reflections remember the sky. Clouds drift like thoughts the river has already released. Serenity hums beneath the surface, older than sound. The land doesn’t speak but you understand. #photography #Laughlin #Nevada #coloradoriver

🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫 For those who want to know how to go from these to these, we have a post coming tomorrow/ day after tomorrow #mushrooms Happy Friday everyone! 👩‍🍳🍽️🍁

Calm & positivity #nature #photography #forest #fall #westcoast

#RecipeOfTheDay Dried Mushrooms Risotto recipe - attached.👇 You can use ether a store-bought dried mushrooms package or those you picked and dried yourself (have a load of those in the oven right now, will share the “how-to” later) You dont have to spend big $ to eat well #foodies 😋🧑‍🍳🍄‍🟫🍽️🍲🍜🍚

We are no kings but we know how to eat good! 👩‍🍳🧑‍🍳 We were able to get half-a-dozen of fresh oysters today for a good price!Sunday appetizer recipe: shuck 3 inexpensive beach oysters, drizzle with freshly squeezed lemon juice & drop half a teaspoon of your own salt cured salmon caviar in each. Enjoy!

Sourdough Baguettes recipe - adding to my todo list!!! (Thank you Thanh for sharing - yours look sooo tummy, it inspired me to TRY to make my own!) #recipe

We are in #caviar heaven! got a few pounds of fresh salmon roe from a local fisherman -20 CAD/ lb- a fraction of store-bought. Salted, cured and stashed in a freezer. Getting ready for holiday season - caviar will be served on fresh oysters. Recipe here: cannedexperience.com/how-to-salt-... 💕🍽️🍲🥯🦪

😋 #recipe share time: Rustic Hearty Porcini Soup! cannedexperience.com/dried-porcin... 👩‍🍳🥣🍽️🍜🍄‍🟫🍲

Dry Porcini Mushroom & Potato #Soup is ready!!! 🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🥔🍽️😋🥣 Recipe coming - in a day or two. Cheers #foodies!

#whatscooking #foodies 1st, we went lobster mushroom hunting. Then we got some nice basmati rice from a friendly Iranian shop next door. Then we splurged on good butter. Then … the magic of #risotto making began! 👉 #Recipe to follow-will add in the comments later today. Cheers, eat well! 🍄‍🟫🍁👩‍🍳😋🍽️

Rent $800? Food $200? In 2025??? If we were THAT lucky we’d be splurging on candles (and candies) too! 🤣🤣🤣🍁

This beautiful kitty lives on a seaside #caturday

#whatscooking #foodies Look what we brought back from our recent trip to Montenegro: earthy, dried porcini mushrooms. 🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫Now the question is what to do with these beauties?
Mmm… soup, perhaps? 😋 Stay tuned for the recipe! 🥣✨ #homemade

#canning #october 😋🫙👩‍🍳🍎 Berries? Gone. Stone fruits? History. But pear & apple season = prime jam time 🍎 Our Fave: Caramel Apple w/ Pistachios 👉 cannedexperience.com/caramel-appl... Canning crew, it’s your time. In 🇨🇦? We’ll have a few jars for sale + shipping! Let us know in the replies ✨

#whatscooking #foodies And what’s #canning? 👩‍🍳😋🫙🍅🍅🍅 With the tomatoes prices still relatively low, now is the time to make these two fantastic recipes for pickles cherry tomatoes. 👉 easy-peasy: cannedexperience.com/how-to-pickl... 👉 unusual: cannedexperience.com/soy-sauce-pi...

✨ Spotted in Dubrovnik! ✨ Came across some beautiful fig jam in a gift shop in King’s Landing 🏰 — but honestly, our homemade version could give it a run for its money 😉 Made with sun-ripened figs & love. A true taste of the Adriatic. Recipe link: cannedexperience.com/small-batch-... 🍽️🫙🥄👩‍🍳 #canning

Happy #Caturday! #kitty #blackcat

📽️ #whatscooking #foodies Guess what...the strawberries are still up = the 2nd flash they call it! This homemade strawberry sauce recipe takes classic strawberry topping to a new level with a hint of cinnamon. This is how we made it 👇 recipe: cannedexperience.com/spiced-straw... 🫙🍓🍽️😋

Labour day weekend lunch: gazpacho! Ripe roma or field tomatoes, red onion, sweet bell peppers or pimentos, large cucumber, garlic, a few spoons of olive oil, a bit of wine vinegar (Jerez!), salt/pepper. Try various proportions. Blend, strain, enjoy! #vegan #healthy #easy #summer cold #soup 🍽️🍲🥗👩‍🍳

⁉️🍽️ #foodies, help! We are Ukrainians -so we are hoarders! 🤣often we make more #jams #pickles #preserves than we and our friends can manage to eat. Should we sell our jam-excess? We looked at a local farmers market… so time consuming so slow… online shop?? Would anyone buy our preserves?? 🤔 🫙🍓🥒

#whatscooking #foodies Happy Late Summer Tuesday! 🚨New recipe alert: Pickled Pattypans! Why would anybody pickle pattypan and cucumbers spears together? How about bragging rights? Anyone can bring a jar of cucumber pickles to the table… 😋👩‍🍳🍽️🥒🫙 #foodsky #homemade cannedexperience.com/pickled-cucu...

Here is another way to use our spiced strawberry sauce/ topping. Cinnamon & vanilla make it so special! Will be sharing our recipe for trad-Ukrainian pancakes in our upcoming newsletter. Subscribe here: cannedexperience.com [gosh, I do sound like those silly ads... but honestly, it is YUMMY!] 🧑‍🍳🫙🍽️😋🍓

#whatscooking #foodies Cheesecake & strawberry sauce = match made in heaven. cannedexperience.com/spiced-straw... 🍓🫙🍽️😋 #skyfood #food #cake #dessert #canning recipe

🍓This isn’t your standard strawberry topping! We gently simmer ripe strawberries with sugar, brighten it with fresh lemon juice, and infuse with a warm, fragrant cinnamon stick. It’s a little sweet, tiny bit tangy, and flavourful. Recipe: cannedexperience.com/spiced-straw... 🫙🍽️👩‍🍳😋 #canning #foodies