Because chronology is for people not suffering from massive nasal congestion ( Read more... )

I think I'm going to officially call an end to jam making for the year ( Read more... )

I was talking to my mom about canning berries, which doesn't normally work well because they get diluted if canned in sugar syrup like most fruit. And she mentioned that she'd seen instructions for canning berries with (essentially) a syrup made of smooshed berries ( Read more... )

2 days. 60 lbs of peaches. 45 quart jars in 5 batches through the canner. 11 hours of peeling, washing, boiling, cleaning. 1 peach clafouti ( Read more... )

So, for the last...five or six years, right around this time of year my hunter-gather instincts go into overdrive. All this food! Must collect and store! Need warm cave! Unintelligible grunt ( Read more... )

Dried fruit normally tastes sort of like the original fruit, but less juicy.

Dried watermelon tastes mostly like fructose held together with a little fiber, pink dye, and hint of watermelon flavor.

This message brought to you by the department of: this much watermelon will never fit in my fridge...hey, I have a dehydrator! I wonder....

You know how turnip greens have a sort of distinctive turnip-green scent and flavor ( Read more... )

By the way, I hope to do some serious jam making this summer/fall, if I can luck into plums and quince and maybe raspberries ( Read more... )

I have no idea why I find this pilaf so satisfying ( Read more... )

Well, that was amusing ( Read more... )