Snow. Winter. Blizzard. Ice. Sub-zero temperatures. These words have become anathema to so many people due to this season’s exceptionally cold and harsh weather. For the first half of the winter, I was its outspoken advocate. Summer’s heat and humidity really drag on my ability to enjoy the outdoors and the dangerously high pollen levels…
Tag: fruit
Cherry Pie-lette
I’ve made pies before and I’ve made galettes. While making tart cherry jar pies recently, I was left with more pie filling and crust than I had clean, sterilized jars. I had the choice of either sterilizing more jars, letting them cool then making more jar pies or I could try to figure out another…
Life’s A Bowl of Cherries
…or more appropriately in this case, it’s two 10-lb buckets of them. I’ve been away from the blog for a while for a myriad of reasons, but mostly our new business venture and the wonderful distraction of travel. More on travel in a future post (or several). We’ve officially purchased the dental practice where my…
Apple Butter Wedding Favor
Favors from our wedding: chunky apple butter made from apples we picked at Lynd’s Fruit Farm near Columbus, OH
Millions of Peaches
Yeah, you probably have that song in your head now. You’re welcome! My dear cousin, Natalie, let me know about a farm who sends a truck of peaches up from FL. I’m usually a pretty locally-focused guy, but she swore these were the best peaches I’d ever eat so I took her at her word….
Blueberry Walnut Brownies
I don’t bake a lot. Baking is much more precise than cooking and therefore I feel like I’m a little too controlled. With that said, I’ve learned a some things to help make the process a bit less exact while keeping an eye toward better health. You can swap out puréed fruit for some (never…
Variations on a Classic
So yeah, we made lots of jam this weekend. 21 lbs of strawberries yielded twice that number of pint jars–in addition to several other strawberry items. More on that later… What the heck would a person do with 42 jars of jam, you ask? Well, we’re still working that one out, but my impulsiveness…
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