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www.foodpreserving.org is your resource for preserving cheese-making fermenting dehydrating & more! I've been a Food Preserver since 2002!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mother of three, with a love of cooking, craft, permaculture, sustainability & creating community. Megan Radaich
I began my preserving journey in high school, in home economics – learning how to make jams and preserves using locally sourced ingredients. During high school and university (whilst studying an education and science degree) I also preserved gifts for family and friends. Starting a family led me to preserve more at home – for convenient family meals, entertaining family and friends with little work/notice required, and eliminating artificial ingredients from my children’s diets wherever possible. I expanded my preserving and cooking skills to include fermenting, dehydrating and yoghurt-making, and then continued to learn home cheese-making, sausage-making, soap-making, candle-making, homemade cosmetics and green cleaning. With my background in home food preservation, I began teaching community classes in early 2012. After completing 365 days of daily preserving by the middle of 2013, I created www.foodpreserving.org to share all of my articles and recipes, so the community can learn about food preserving methods, browse hundreds of recipes and have everything they need in one place – and most importantly, pay it forward by teaching the next generation and sharing preserves (and/or recipes) with family, friends and neighbours. See more about my 365 Days of Creative Canning challenge on the website. I feel honoured that followers have found inspiration in my 365 project to cook/create for a year also! I am currently working on my first online course, due for release later this year. Cooking, gardening and craft: being active in my community and helping others is something that is important to me as it helps reduce loneliness and isolation and all work towards creating genuine, long-lasting community connections. My future goals include teaching online classes, publishing my recipes and articles in Australian magazines, continuing to publish my course guides (working towards my cookbook collection), and creating YouTube videos. It would be amazing to produce a TV series about Food Preserving. Enjoy your food preserving journey! Learn, create, share
- Megan
Author/Lecturer
www.foodpreserving.org
10/09/2026
🍓 STRAWBERRY JAM
Farm fresh strawberries grown minutes from our home. A squeeze of lemon juice from local backyard lemons. Sliced, simmered, bottled and shared with our friends and family. Every spring we enjoy making a batch or two using small or medium sized strawberries (for best flavour).
📖 Recipe: https://www.foodpreserving.org/2012/09/day-128-strawberry-jam.html
03/06/2026
Jardinière 🌶️🫑🥕🧄🧅
Pickled garden vegetables = a great way to use up all of the garden vegetables to enjoy all year long!
📖 Recipe: http://www.foodpreserving.org/2013/05/jardiniere-pickled-garden-vegetables.html
02/06/2026
QUINCE FRUIT PASTE (MEMBRILLO)
Sweet with an amazing floral fragrance. Quince fruit paste is thick enough (and firm enough) to thinly slice and looks wonderful on a fruit/cheese platter, served with meat, firm white cheese i.e. Spanish Manchego and crackers, in sandwiches or toast (with cream cheese or soft cheese), spread on/in cakes or stuffed into pastries.
📖 Recipe: http://www.foodpreserving.org/2013/05/quince-fruit-paste-membrillo.html
Weekend included making a batch of this blackforest jam with my 14yr old (and one of their friends). love sharing jam with others and teaching 😍
📖 Recipe: https://www.foodpreserving.org/2026/05/black-forest-jam-mothers-day-jam.html
31/05/2026
BOTTLED ASIAN PEARS
Bottle fresh, crunchy, delicious apple-shaped Asian pears in water, honey, fruit juice or syrup to enjoy all year long! All Asian pears require acidification before bottling to prevent spoilage, because they are lower in acidity than standard pears.
📖 Recipe: http://www.foodpreserving.org/2012/10/bottled-asian-pears.html
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This recipe can be used for all Asian pears including nashi (yoinashi), chojuro, hosui, ichiban, kikusui, kosui, niitaka, okusankichi, olympic, shinko, shinseiki, shinsui, tse li (tsu li), ya li and 20th century (nijisseiki). Asian pears may also be known as Chinese pear, Japanese pear, Korean pear, sand pear or Taiwanese pear.
18/05/2026
FREEZING POMEGRANATES
Freezing pomegranates is an excellent way to preserve their fresh flavour and enjoy them all year long!
https://www.foodpreserving.org/2014/04/freezing-pomegranates.html
17/05/2026
POMEGRANATE JELLY
A vibrant sweet and sour jelly celebrating the arrival of Autumn! Enjoy chilled pomegranate jelly spread atop toast or warm a spoonful or two to use as an addition to your favourite Middle Eastern dish.
📖 Recipe: https://www.foodpreserving.org/2014/04/pomegranate-jelly.html
🍓🍒🫐NEW RECIPE🫐🍒🍓
BLACK FOREST JAM (MOTHER’S DAY JAM)
A special recipe for Mother’s Day gifts – sweet, fruity and perfect for sharing all year long! Enjoy Black Forest Jam with French toast, scones, sponge cake, pancakes, pikelets, waffles, swirled into yoghurt and granola, or straight from the jar.
📖 Recipe: https://www.foodpreserving.org/2026/05/black-forest-jam-mothers-day-jam.html
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02/04/2026
long weekend of Food Preserving ahead! 😍
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