Apricot Lavender Jam
The most beautiful rosy apricots show up in our local farmers’ markets from time to time and put the mealy […]
Preserving Herbs Part 2: Salt
Preserving herbs in salt is really only a method of dehydration as the salt slowly sucks the moisture from the […]
Preserving Herbs Part 1: Vinegar
Subtly scented or fully flavored, herb-infused vinegar splashes summer on fresh food all year long. Before the herbs that I […]
Curried Corn Relish and a Couple of Salads
I started making this tangy and rather addictive relish about 12 years ago shortly after the publication of Perla Meyers’ […]
Golden Zucchini Marmalade with Ginger and Lime
Cucurbits for the July edition of the Tigress Can Jam! In addition to learning a new word, I thought how […]
Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam with Cardamom
When I was reading about cooking with currants in Edible Portland, I spotted a recipe for strawberry-rhubarb jam with cardamom, […]
Currant-Strawberry Jam
I have had a love-hate relationship with strawberry jam from the beginning of my canning career. Strawberry jam ranks up […]
Rhubarb Grilling Sauce: my Rhu-barb-e-que
OMG, I logged into Tigress’s website Sunday night to see what the posting deadline was and there, to my horror, […]
Pickled Asparagus with Curry Spices and Another Batch with Herbs
After I wrote this, I had an unexpected result: floaters! Uh oh. You never want the ingredients in the air […]
Rhubarb Preserves with Orange and Ginger
I love how ginger complements rhubarb, probably because they both originated in the same part of the world – Asia. […]
Mint and Rosemary Herb Jellies
For the April Can Jam, I was excited to see herbs as the focus, partly because my little pot garden […]
Sea Scallops on Tomatillo Sauce
In the absence of tomatoes for canning last summer, I got lucky with an abundance of tomatillos and put up […]
Roasted Parsnips with Curried Corn Relish
Time to inventory what’s in the pantry from last summer and fall and start using it up! Last year was […]
Curried Onion Jam
This curried onion jam was a completely off-the-cuff, intuitive experiment that turned out so well that it will become a […]
Tiger Lily Carrots with Daikon, Ginger and Sesame
For the February Can Jam event brilliantly organized by Tigress in a Jam, I was inspired by a carrot salad […]
Pickled Asparagus
Back in June when asparagus was in season locally, I put up a batch in tall 12-ounce jars. Like the […]
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