Let Your Slow Cooker Work All The Magic While You Sleep Mirepoix is a French cooking term (say it meer/pwah) that instantly sounds arrogant and difficult, but it isn’t. What it can be is time-consuming, like caramelized onions, for example. Today’s world is fast and furious, so we often turn […]
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How To Make Amazing Meyer Lemon Marmalade
0 commentsAbsolutely Delicious, And You Don’t Need Pectin Meyer lemons don’t grow in Nebraska, but thanks to a California friend, I got a bag of them and was determined to make some lemon marmalade with them! I love lemon anything, and orange marmalade is a favorite, so I knew I would […]
Make Christmas Jam In 1 Hour With Just 4 Ingredients
6 commentsSweet Tangy Christmas Jam Is Perfect For Gift Giving Christmas Jam is perfect for gift-giving! It is a sweet and tangy marriage of strawberries and cranberries. Festive and beautiful, the crimson color says, “hello, Christmas!” It is the jam you want to use in thumbprint cookies or slathered on your […]
Make This Cranberry Pepper Jam It’s A 5 Star Favorite
5 commentsWow Your Guests With Intriguing Cranberry Pepper Jam My brain hosts a constant dance of food images, and lately, I’ve been obsessed with cranberries. I kept visualizing Cranberry Pepper Jam casually poured over a block of cream cheese surrounded by crisp crackers at my Christmas cookie party. I knew I […]
Homemade Apple Butter Is Easy To Make
0 commentsLet Your Slow Cooker Do All the Work Homemade apple butter is bliss on a biscuit, terrific on toast, and wonderful on waffles. Now is the time to take advantage of the abundance of high-quality newly harvested apples and make some pies, bread, applesauce, and, best of all, homemade apple […]
How To Freeze Vegetables For Short-Term Storage
0 commentsHow To Quick Freeze Veggies Without Blanching When your garden is overflowing, and the farmers’ market tables are groaning, it’s a great time to think of new ways to freeze vegetables. Most vegetables can be quick-frozen without blanching and stored safely in your freezer until you are ready to use […]
Make This Jalapeno Jelly For The Best Sweet Heat
0 commentsJalapeno Jelly Recipe For The Best Sweet Heat JalapeƱo Jelly is beautiful and mysteriously both sweet and hot. Around the holidays, it’s wildly popular on buffet tables, and you will often see people swarming around it for more. For a wonderful appetizer, pour it over a block of cream cheese […]
Delicious Corn Cob Jelly Recipe
11 commentsCorn Cob Jelly From The Cobs You Almost Wasted Have you ever heard of corn cob jelly? You may only think of it as a forgotten something Ma Ingalls cooked up in The Little House On The Prairie, but think again! Corn cob jelly is beautiful, surprising, and delightful. It […]
Save Summer In Jars With This Homemade Peach Jam
0 commentsHomemade Peach Jam Recipe Fresh peaches are one of the summer’s most generous gifts. When you make peach jam, you literally capture some of the sunshine that ripened the delicious fruit. Peach jam is the most glorious golden color, and homemade peach jam’s flavor brings magic to a simple piece […]
The Quick And Lazy Way To Freeze Tomatoes Whole
0 commentsThe Quick And Lazy Way To Freeze Whole Tomatoes This Summer The first time I heard you could freeze tomatoes, I was not convinced. Freeze raw, unpeeled tomatoes? You must be joking! I remember my mom slaving away canning tomatoes in a kitchen that was a hot, steamy, sticky mess. […]