Pickled Carrots with Saffron and Star Anise
These pickled carrots are delicious in winter. Actually, they’re great at any time of year, but especially during the dark […]
Cranberry Ketchup
Cranberry ketchup is a surprisingly versatile table sauce. Tangy and fruity, it can be used like tomato ketchup on top […]
Waste Not Want Not: Grapefruit Pomegranate Jelly
This started as a pile of scraps and turned into a bittersweet jewel. I had used the thin peel of […]
Pickled Hot Cherry Peppers
Preserving pecks of peppers takes imagination. The farmers at the market had the same idea I did. Harvest all the […]
Better Ketchup: Tomato-Pepper Sauce
Better than ketchup, and more versatile. This sauce is a recent discovery that will make it into my repertoire. Canning […]
Red Hot Sauce with a Secret Ingredient, Carrots!
Hot sauce has a league of its own thanks to barbecue wars. Many BBQ joints – from DC to Dallas […]
Feelin’ Hot Hot Hot: Red Pepper Sauce
I’ve got the hots for hot sauce. With half a peck of peppers, I held my own red sauce cook-off. […]
Redheart Plum and Raspberry Jam
American plums feel like an endangered species. The now-famous 1911 publication from the New York Agricultural Experiment Station — a […]
Apricot Jam with Lemon Thyme
My adventure with the lemony herbs of summer continues with lemon thyme. Recent success adding lemon verbena to blueberries made […]
Blueberry and Lemon Verbena Jam
Lemony herbs always seem like summer. Lemon basil, lemon balm, lemon grass, lemon verbena, citrusy geraniums and so on. I […]
Wild Raspberry and Red Currant Jam in Fillmore Lug Jars
Our family craves a carefully curated pantry. Think of preserves in limited editions made from produce we’ve grown or foraged. […]
Gooseberry Jam and a Version with Elderflowers
It’s rare to find gooseberries around here. I’m not sure that they’re native. Growing them is actually banned in much […]
Wild Black Raspberry Jam
“Follow the black dots,” he said. Into the woods and the bramble patch where a tremendous harvest of wild black […]
Strawberry Vanilla Jam and Vanilla Extract
Combining two annual pantry traditions illustrates our kitchen ecosystem. One is stocking up on the first berry crop of the […]
Winter Squash and Carrot Orange Soup with Marmalade
I had something else to do when I got the soup mandate. My husband said he was willing to shovel […]
Blood Orange and Meyer Lemon Marmalade, plus Bonus Citrus Jelly
When it comes to marmalade, I’m into technique. Every year, I try another method while repeating a few favorites. The […]
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