Preserving Food
Cool Cukes: Quick & Easy Ferments
It's been one of those summers. One of those that happens more and more frequently. Fall is falling before summer even sums.
If you know...
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Fermenting Chiles
These may look innocent enough to you
But that's because your eyes aren't watering from the heat. If you're a chile head like me, or...
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Walnut Sage Pesto
It has been a real treat tricking around the blogoshpere of late and seeing all my fellow foodies and homesteaders waxing poetic about this...
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Lime on Lime Shred Marmalade
These crinkly little critters are not the loveliest things I've ever set eyes on.
In fact, they never were quite ready for their close up....
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Rajisthani Kumquat Pickle
Ever notice how Koons-like kumquats are?
Or is it just me? Look, I'm up here in the Berkshires for the week...I'm happier than a pig...
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Quince in Rose Syrup
I wanted to preserve the wonderfully alluring nature of quince to enjoy throughout the year without a whole heck-of-a-lot of embellishment. I looked to...
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Plum Noir Jam
Plum Noir Jam
Yield: approximately 4 pints
4 lbs. dark plums
3 bay leaves
10 black peppercorns
4 green cardamom pods
1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds
1/2 cup water
juice of one lemon
5...
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Lemon Squash Jam
I have a confession to make. Even though I grow a lotta cucurbits, I don't grow these:
I used to grow them. But to be...
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Sweet Preserved Kumquats
Sun pods
Shaped like an oversized grape, tastes like a very sweet lemon that can be eaten whole, peel and all, even when plucked directly...
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White Radish Pickle
If you really are committed to eating locally, and/or growing your own food then I think you've caught on by now that in most...