Canning carrots and potatoes in onion soup mix.

I had been watching a couple youtube videos about canning and came across  a video on Linda's pantry.  She was canning carrots and potatoes and was adding onion soup mix to each jar.   Of course, that made me want to try it and I'm so happy I did.  I not sure how they will taste but they sure smelled good coming out of the canner.    I do one of the disclaimers on this is its not an approved canning method.  I don't know why it wouldn't be, unless it has something to do the with the beef broth in the onion soup mix.  But anyway, I will share the how-to-do with this or at least how I did it.


Cut up your carrots and potatoes.  The potatoes do need to be blanched for about 10 mins to get some of the starch out of them.   Once your done blanching your potatoes, add them along with the carrots to your jars.  Then add a tablespoonful of soup mix per quart jar or two teaspoonful per pint jar.  Then add hot water, put your lids and rings on and into the canner.   Depending on where you live, determines your time and pressure.   I did mine at 10 lb pressure for 40mins.   I did what the time is given  for canning potatoes.   I hope you find this helpful and want to give it a try yourself.  Happy canning!

Our journey on building our log cabin home

Welcome to our new blog and a little bit about our farm and life in Kentucky.  We live on a family farm that my grandparents purchased back in 1942.  My grandfather worked for a local steel mill, and farmed.   He and my uncle were tobacco farmers for many years, along with raising cattle, horses, gardens and they cut hay.  

I grew up on the farm, later married and moved away for a couple years but my husband and I eventually moved back to the farm.   My mom and stepfather moved back to the farm back in 2008 and remolded my grandparents house.  My grandmother passed away in 2006 and my grandfather passed away in 2009.   They were married for 71 years and they lived be in  their nineties.   Had three children, Thurman, Mary and my mom, Dee.  All three of their children still live on the farm to this day.  My uncle Thurman's son and his wife also live on the farm.  So when I mean family farm it truly is.  

In 2010,  my husband and I started building our second home on the farm.   That was definitely a journey of it's own.  We built a log home ourselves, we did have some help from some good friends and family.  It was a lot of hard work but so worth it.  Not sure I would take that journey again building a loghome  ourselves again.

I hope you follow along, with us on this journey of life.  I hope to share stories,  and just our everyday life on the farm and how we do things and live.