Thanksgiving, I see you! And I’m coming ready, with a delicious condiment. Tasting of the tart cranberries, honeyed floral quince, and ginger snap. Colored a most beautiful hue and smooth, spreading gorgeously on a whole grain bread, topped with turkey slices. I think I might have stopped everything I was doing when these cranberry quince preserves appeared on
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Sometimes, life just calls for cake. And sometimes that cake needs to be topped with ooey gooey caramel. Whether you’re celebrating an anniversary, a new job, a friend visiting, or heck, a birthday! Around these parts, we’re doing a bit of celebration for the first birthday of the Vintage Recipe Swap! While I haven’t been involved for a year’s worth
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Let me just be frank: I grew up on damn good jam. Yes, my mother insisted on having Welch’s grape in the fridge, but that market spoiled me rotten. The adult kid adores sour cherry and apricot preserves, full of luscious chunks of fruit. But Hero Forest Berry Preserves? That was THE STUFF peanut butter & jelly sandwiches were made
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I love a good challenge. Making recipes from an older cookbook, where oven temperatures, baking times, ingredient treatments are oft unmentioned, would be fit the bill. When I spied the Burwell General Store‘s Recipe Swap, I was game. This swap involves remaking recipes from the book “All-Day Singin’ and Dinner on the Ground.” Written in a time where all cookbook owners were more familiar
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Deep, dark luscious cherries. Tart, sweet, rich with balsamic vinegar. Really, do I need to say much more? These are the first cherries of the season on the East Coast. And they got the sexy, royally delicious treatment. So good it makes you want to lick you jam pot clean. It’s your favorite pot in the kitchen, a mass merchandiser’s knock
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When the weather starts to change, the berries and tomatoes dissipate, the energy in the air shifts. The dynamics of cooking changes when fall rolls in, and the feeling of discovery often escapes us. I have been enthused to find something new this fall. Quince is a mystifying but delicious fruit. Astringent and inedible raw, but sweet, floral, honey in
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