Roast on a baking sheet with garlic, onions, salt, and olive oil. then freeze flat in gallon bags. Later I add herbs and spices and blend for pasta sauce, tomato soup, chili, chicken Tikka masala, etc.
Just canned 18 lbs of peaches, and made zucchini muffins too.
Also, (not a preserving thing, but just a zucchini side note) I have a toddler who loves almost all fresh produce, but will NOT eat cooked zucchini. I recently tried grating it (like you do for bread/muffins) and mixing it into...
I always look up a recipe online, and then don't follow it very well, so it turns out different every time.
But basically, lots of fresh basil and garlic from the garden, some olive oil, some parmesan, and whatever nuts I have on hand. Pine nuts are good, but I put in walnuts a lot because I...
Didn't read all 5 pages, so I don't know if someone already suggested these, but a couple of my favorite tricks:
1.) Make a ready-to-go peach pie filling by adding your sugar/flour/cinnamon/butter and freezing in a Ziploc inside a pie plate.
2.) Freeze pesto in ice cube trays. Then pop them...