MESSY MONDAYS.

In continuing with our Messy Mondays series, here is our set-up for cooking down maple sap into maple syrup from last week......and here's what happened when we went for a walk and the oven mitt caught on fire.Good thing we didn't try this INSIDE the house!

CANNING ON THE GRILL.

I really love canning. I do. I love preserving our own food. But the thing is, I also hate canning. It falls in the middle of the summer, and we cook with wood....which means, standing over a wood stove for hours on end in already 100 degree weather.This year, we experimented with canning outside, on the grill. It was, indeed, hot. And it still took all day. But I would say it was pretty successful, and we didn't heat up the cabin in the process! Best of all, the grill was still so hot when we were done that we baked brownies as a reward for all our hard work.How do you can your tomatoes?- Hannah.