Last month our family was on vacation together, and you could just see my kid’s eyes light up when I pulled out the homemade canned applesauce and Bing cherries.

There is nothing like home canned fruits, in my mind. Possibly because I grew up with canned fruit like peaches, pears, applesauce, cherries, and apricots from the Ball canning jars my mother and grandmother put up. Canning has really become a lost art, one that I love to talk about here on RE, and to encourage others to possibly consider learning more about.

This time I tried a very healthy recipe that included applesauce, but I did a little something different and also added in home-canned cherries. DELISH! [Read more...]