Monday’s freakishly terrific weather had me pining for sweaty afternoons in the garden, nurturing seedlings and combating Bermuda grass. For the meantime I’ll have to make do with a couple of fermentation projects, mostly beverages (blog posts forthcoming). I haven’t yet progressed past the point where I don’t view my garden as a months-long trial, [...]
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Sauerrüben
Posted in Experimenting, Fermentation, Preservation on January 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Preserving pears, or making things more complicated than needed.
Posted in Fruit, Preservation, Sweets on December 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
In early October some friends and I went to Jones and picked about 170 pounds of apples and pears. We had a great time divvying our harvest and I brought home a good haul: roughly 15 pounds of apples and 8 pounds of pears. My friend Julie and I made apple butter (yum!) and preserved [...]
Trotter Gear
Posted in Experimenting, Meat, Preservation on December 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“This unctuous, giving gastronomic tool will become all chefs’ and cooks’ friend, finding untold uses in the kitchen. No fridge should be without its jar of Trotter Gear. … Nuduals of giving, wobbly trotters captured in a splendid jelly. One can sense its potential even now.“ —from A Healthy Jar of Trotter Gear in “Beyond [...]
Peck of Peppers
Posted in Garden, Preservation on October 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a bit frantic. I feel winter’s approach, and along with it a sense of urgency about putting up food in this window of time between insane heat and frosty evenings. That’s not to say I’ve been super motivated or productive in the kitchen lately. No, I just have this anxiety looming about I should [...]
Oil & Vinegar
Posted in Garden, Preservation, Recipe on August 25, 2011 | 3 Comments »
My enthusiasm for water-bath canning might be waning a bit. I hope it comes back, but in the meantime, I’m really glad I picked up a copy of Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning. Not only is this book great because of its low-tech premise, but the “recipes” are straightforward instructions for assembling ingredients, which [...]
Dried Herbs
Posted in Garden, Preservation on June 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Toward the end of last summer when all my basil bushes were overwhelming me and I couldn’t make any more pesto, and I had already tried to preserve the herb in another fashion, I just cut off the branches and stuffed them into brown paper sacks. (Why I didn’t let some go to seed, I [...]
Vinegar, Take 2
Posted in Back to Basics, Beer and Wine, Experimenting, Preservation on February 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Even though I killed my last vinegar mother, Jackie gave me another and I’ve been sharing my Barefoot pinot grigio bubbly with her (the mother, not Jackie; though I would gladly share booze with Jackie anytime). I am determined to keep it alive. Which shouldn’t be difficult, really, since my last one probably wasn’t dead [...]
Cook and Freeze
Posted in Media, Preservation, Reading and Research, Tools, tagged Cookbooks, Freezing on December 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I know I’m in good company when I say, if I don’t control myself, I could go crazy buying cookbooks. So, I have a mostly no-purchasing policy. Mostly. I bought two cookbooks for myself in the last year or so, and they were both purchased last month. I borrowed Charcuterie by Michael Ruhlman and Brian [...]
Basil-Pepper Jelly
Posted in Garden, Preservation, tagged Appetizers, Canning, Chile Peppers, Herbs, Jelly on November 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
It’s funny how I planted this pepper plant hoping I would be able to make salsa. Well, the tomatoes never really came on and the cilantro was done long before the peppers (and lots of them) ripened. That’s how it goes, I guess. So, I was left with all these peppers and no real need [...]
Cucumber Pickles
Posted in Garden, Preservation on September 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This isn’t the first time I’ve grown cucumbers, but it’s the first time I stayed in one place long enough to see the plant’s full cycle. This year I had great luck with bushy cucumbers, which weren’t bushy at all, but I guess it’s relative. I had fun crawling around in the vines and trying [...]
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