One more post on quince, because I made some more quince jelly (so easy, and so delicious), but this time I decided to do something with the leftover pulp. One of our favorite snacks is quince paste, or membrillo, on top of manchego cheese. It’s quintessentially Spanish, easy to make, and the sweet paste goes [...]
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This is my first semi-failure with preserving foods at home. The jam is simple enough to make – no peeling or exhaustive amounts of chopping produce is inovlved. The red pears are cored and cut into chunks, and cooked with sugar and a bouqet garni of lavender for just a perfect floral hint. The flavor [...]
Canning and preserving never really appealed to me, despite growing up with a mom who was an avid home canner. I’ve dabbled in it in the past, making things like salsa, jams and tomato sauces, but I don’t really have the patience for it – spending an entire day chopping, steaming, sterilizing. I like the [...]
I grew up in a family of home canners but it’s not something I’ve ever really enjoyed doing myself. I’ve got a pressure canner and have had good success making things like jam and canning marinara sauce. It’s just not my idea of fun. I like the idea of canning for the short-term, though. These [...]
With my recent cocktail and spirits obsession comes the drive to make my own condiments for drinks. The idea to make maraschino cherries was planted in my head after reading this post last year but I just recently got around to it. These are incredibly easy to make, once the cherries are pitted. I use [...]
. Nut butters made at home are amazingly simple – take any nut and give it a whir in the food processor until it’s the right consistency. Add some salt if you want. Sometimes a little bit of oil helps too (neutral oil, such as grapeseed). If you don’t like peanut butter (I don’t), then [...]
At the start of 2011, I started tagging some of our favorite recipes of the year. Larry and I sat down today and pared that list down to our favorites. We didn’t have a pre-determined number of items, so we ended up with eight things that were our favorite, and most memorable of the year. [...]
This wasn’t really part of any plan, but there’s a Smart & Final next to our local pet store so I popped in and scored a half-gallon of manufacturing cream. Um, okay. I guess I’m making butter. Which I’ve had in mind as a project to do for a while, but I don’t know why [...]
My plans to made this apple-pear butter kept getting foiled by my appetite for pears. Every time I had a few ripe pears in the house, I ate them. I love pears. I finally just went over to Sprouts, where they had a bunch of inexpensive, overripe Comice pears (my favorite). The fact that they [...]
This beautiful, delicious marmalade isn’t something I’d make all the time, but it’s fabulous and this first batch was worth it. It’s a very labor-intensive product, cutting all of that lemon zest up into threads. I used Meyer lemons – my lemon of choice when I happen to get my hands on some. The marmalade [...]
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