Whole Wheat Pasta with Roasted Cauliflower, Bacon, and Herbed Croutons with Rosemary-sage Salt
Call this wheat on wheat. Comfort food after days in the yard and basement, still cleaning up after the recent […]
Turkish-Style Pickled Cabbage
I could not bring myself to call this sauerkraut, despite a long association between Turkey and Germany and the resemblance […]
Ginger and Ginger-Vanilla Jelly
This is the feistiest preserve I’ve made in some time. Gingery heat with a lingering spiciness plus the aromatic allure […]
Braised Radishes Glazed with Boiled Cider Syrup
Braised and glazed. That was the theme of several of the vegetable dishes at our Thanksgiving feast. I recalled a […]
Canning Soup Base and Tomato Sweet Potato Soup with Rosemary
Here we are again, cooking the last of a season and the first of the next: tomatoes out, sweet potatoes […]
Orange Groundcherry Jam with Rosemary
For jam, ground cherries are as versatile as figs. Myriad little seeds create a textural and visual resemblance to green […]
Preserving Tomatillo Salsa
Momma’s got a brand new sauce. Canning tomatillos is certainly possible since they’re naturally acidic like tomatoes, but to make […]
Fig Jam with Fennel Pollen and Bay Leaves
What the fig? Another fig jam? I was actually intending to make fig jam with chipotle chili powder when I […]
Brandied Figs
We will be grateful for the decadence of preserving fruit in brandy by the year-end holiday season. We’ll spoon them […]
Moroccan Tomato Jam
This jam is intense. It embodies the complexity of Moroccan food: sweet yet savory, bordering on sour, spicy but not […]
Peach Saffron Jam
Peaches are so cloying that I look for ways to make them more tragic. Preserve some of their Doris Day […]
Fig Jam Revisited
Local figs make their debut in farmers’ markets at the beginning of September every year. If you don’t pounce on […]
Fanny’s Peach Jam
Another in a series in which I comment on M.F.K. Fisher’s 1986 annotations of Catherine Plagemann’s 1967 Fine Preserving, layering […]
Blackberry Peach Jam
High summer fruit season – with plentiful berries and stone fruit – is a paradise for making jam. I had […]
Refrigerator Dills
This is the chicken’s way out. Not real cowardice about making cucumber pickles in a crock in the basement like […]
Apricot-Currant Preserves
Red currants work magic with other seasonal fruit in the preserving pan. Those tiny translucent red orbs impart a rosy […]
PROSPECT THE PANTRY 