Pantry Gone Rogue: Pickled Tomatillo Salsa
When taste buds need waking up, add spicy pickles. While I am fond of the slightly sweet tomatillo salsa that […]
Saving the Season: Preserved Lemons and Kumquats
Citrus makes winter brighter. We feast when great lemons, oranges, tangerines and grapefruit are in peak season, along with citrus-like […]
Grapefruit Marmalade
This marmalade’s a winner. Strips of grapefruit rind are suspended in a clear, bright, and clean-tasting, slightly syrupy jelly. Served […]
Waste Not Want Not: Lemon Ginger Marmalade
Recycle your squeezed lemons by turning them into marmalade. I was in the midst of making preserved lemons with organic […]
Pomegranate Ginger Jam
I’ve been working on pomegranate jam for two years and I am getting closer. Like cherries, pomegranates have a fleeting […]
DIY Gifts: Lavender Sugar and Salt, Chai and Mulling Mixes
Short on Christmas gifts? Or stocking stuffers? Even if you’re crazy busy like I am, a quick stop at a […]
Cranberries Meet Sweet-Hot Chili Jam for Thanksgiving
Here’s the perfect holiday condiment. It works as well with goat cheese and crostini as it does with turkey and […]
Green Tomato Relish
This is not just any green tomato relish. It’s Mrs. Dorsey Brown’s Green Tomato Pickle, as recounted in Kevin West’s […]
Green Tomato Chutney
I was just barely ahead of the curve. A killing frost was underway when I rescued a basket of green […]
Pickled Pequin Peppers and Hot Sauce
These little pequins are hot hot hot. They grow abundantly on two small bushes that I am about to bring […]
Pickling Green Tomatoes and Tomatillos
Our garden became a little shop of horrors. Indeterminate heirloom cherry tomato vines run rampant, twining around each other, pulling […]
Preserving Tarragon in Vinegar
At the end of the summer, I start preserving herbs in quantity. A couple of years ago, I wrote a […]
Pickled Mexican Sour Gherkins
I had no idea what these were when I saw them in a bowl at the market. Speckled, green and […]
Nectarine Jam: Summer Simplicity
This is as close to summer in a jar as it gets. The rosy-skinned nectarines from our local orchard have […]
Foraging: Pickled Purslane
One of the advantages of an organic farm is that the edible weeds are well raised. Purslane – a relative […]
Brandied Apricots
There’s Christmas in July or August in the southern hemisphere. Feasts that replicate our December fare in the land of […]
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