Category Archives: Jams and Marmalades

You know it’s winter when the crates of clementines start showing up in stores. No winter snack is quite as delicious as one (or two… or five) of those things! Easy to peel, sweet to eat – try stuffing a few in your parka pocket before a full day of skiing or a long winter [...]

I know, I know, I just posted about pumpkin muffins. But, with all this leftover pumpkin puree (why did I buy such a freaking large pumpkin?@%!), I decided to save all my other brilliant (READ: nonexistent) blog post ideas for later (READ: never). I love apple butter, and figured pumpkin butter would be just as [...]

This post was almost a disaster. Let me explain: I love butter. I really love flavored butters. Like when you go to a restaurant and they don’t just bring you bread and butter, they bring you bread and mango butter, or bread and papaya butter, or bread and basil butter… once in a while that’s [...]

mn lottery My sister Kate made a request for a raspberry jam, so here goes! Disclaimer: you may never want to buy supermarket jam again—be prepared to make this for-e-ver. AND you don’t have to break the bank buying pints and pints of fresh raspberries, because this recipe works just as well with frozen ones. [...]

nj lottery Ok, gang. So I know it’s really easy to walk by the jam aisle of the supermarket and pick up a jar. And if you are like me 12 months ago, jam-making conjures up images of Laura Ingalls Wilder on the prairie in 1901, sweating in a bonnet over a steaming kettle, trying [...]