Preserving Food
Spring Things
It's springing around here! The coyotes are howling at night.
The garlic is popping; the rhubarb...forgettaboutit! The blueberry frame's shoulder is broken. The wicked winter...
Preserving Food
Tigress’ Best Books of 2011
I've been so excited about my holiday list of my fave preserving and DIY books of 2011 that I decided to have a big...
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Sweet Tomato Ketchup
Remember this? After two long weeks in LIC I got back to my little plot of heaven up in the Berkshires only to find...
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Jam On It: Shaker Squash Bread
You may have a bunch of these hangers-on from your summer garden that are just about ready to jump. Or you might have been...
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Shell-stocked (Shellfish Stock)
Yes, I said I eat (shell) fish occasionally! So occasionally in fact at this point in my life that I've had exactly one lobster...
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My Favorite Preserved Lemons
I can't possibly go through a citrus season without making a batch of these.
And you shouldn't either. I know everybody does the kind with...
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North Indian Lime Pickle
During citrus season, I become a pickle making machine. I know marmalade is the flavor of the month for most, but my year’s meals...
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Raspberry Rose Jam
Raspberry Rose Jam
2 & 3/4 pounds raspberries (organic if you can)
3 & 3/4 cups sugar
juice of one medium lemon
1 & 1/2 ounces rose water
1/2 pint or smaller...
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Carrots: Buttered & Jammed
So I'm there with my 5 lb. bag of carrots thumbing though a myriad of canning books looking for something to get excited about...
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Taking & Making Stock
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Maybe it's my utilitarian bent, but there's something I find exhilarating about 'cleaning up the garden' right around the break of fall.
On a good...