This jam has become a perennial favorite in our house. It’s an excellent way to use up either perfect tomatoes or those that might not be looking the best, but aren’t yet ready for the compost pile. I used this recipe with a few tweaks, of course. Last year I added pectin, this year I didn’t….
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Jalapeño-Cheddar Biscuits
I have stacks and stacks of old Bon Appetit magazines that Chad would really love to see me toss in the recycling bin. I’m nowhere near being a hoarder and sure just about all of their recipes are online, but every now and then I really crave thumbing through an old paper issue and picking…
Saskatoon Jam
Okay, okay, it’s jam season and you’re probably sick of hearing about it already with all of the strawberry jam posts. I’ll be brief on this one. When we first bought our house, we had no idea what a gem we had in the courtyard patio. It wasn’t until a dear friend was over for…
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…
Strawbeastie Jam!
Strawberries… lovely strawberries. I grew up making strawberry jam every summer with mom. It’s what taught me how to preserve–and how to avoid getting burned in the kitchen! Every June, we used to pile into the van, load up with sunscreen and be sent out into the fields like little workers. I remember eating a…
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