Page 12 Fall Home & Garden | September 2023 Lincoln Daily News If you are interested in canning, you do not have to have a garden. Go to local farmer’s markets, festivals or even the grocery store to gather produce and fruits. Start out small with just one or two vegetable or fruit varieties and stick to a solid method. Like most any hobby, there are many ways and hundreds of suggestions on how to can or freeze fruits and vegetables. You can find information online or with books from your local farm and home store. However, the first several times you may want to stick with one way or brand that you are familiar with and then add or tweak in the coming years. Another valuable resource is family members, sometimes auntie or grandma are the best resources. If you are not familiar with a certain fall food, a great way to try some of these is to get one or two at your local grocery store or farmer’s market and search for an easy popular recipe. This way you are not obligated to grow or spend money on expensive pre-prepared food, just to find out if you like it or not. An easy and natural way to try the flavor of these foods is by simple roasting. This will allow the true flavor to come out for you to determine whether you want to spend the money and time searching for more extensive recipes. A simple light coating of olive oil and a little salt or herbs and roasting until soft will give you that honest wholesome taste of that food. You can even take it a step further and roast many veggies all together and just serve with any meat dish or by themselves. A great “go-to” is whatever is ready in the garden at that time. In the fall that can be bulbed onions (yellow, white, red), squash (acorn, butternut, etc.), zucchini, eggplant, trophy radishes (when roasting they turn sweet), fall turnips, brussel sprouts, potatoes, and carrots. Continued --
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