During the summer and fall I focus on making dishes that use as much of the fresh produce that the garden produces as possible.
Because we spend up to a month at a time in our Casita trailer I've put together a little cookbook of two pot meals since she only has a two burner stove. The pdf is all set up for you to print out as a little booklet.
I also can. I got a major hankering to try canning the summer of 1982 and I started out canning plums for Walter. Then I learned to make Dilly Beans while we were in Community in Massachusetts.
By the time we were living in Oregon I'd graduated to making dill pickles too. And when I finally had a garden of my own I started making jam, more pickles, canned fruit and my own tomato and enchilada sauces.
At this point, I only can fruit and occasionally will make fresh pickles for friends or neighbors. We have a small orchard on our property which produces about 150-200 pounds of apples every year so I make lots of apple sauce and dried apples.
There is a special pleasure having ones shelves full of beautiful jars of canned fruit at the end of the canning season.
These shelves are in a storage area in our basement that we jokingly call "Heaven" after the St. Francis quote: "Store your treasures in heaven."