Easy ice cream sundaes topped with with simple, blackberry jam (made without pectin) and oat clusters. Jump to recipe. [Read more…]
A Harvest Dessert Party
A trio of harvest sweets, just right for a fall dessert party. Recipes for a rich Moscato jam, a pear galette, and a decadent chocolate chess pie with a nutty rye crust. This post is sponsored by Mirassou Winery. Jump to recipe. [Read more…]
strawberry balsamic jam
Preserve summer flavors with this vibrant, low-sugar strawberry balsamic jam recipe.
tomato lime jam
At last, fall has arrived in the city. For a procrastinator like me, that means it’s time to put up the season’s food. Last year, I was hampered by the new baby, a sick dog, and a hurricane. But this year, I was ready. Or so I thought. Brian went off the the Union Square Greenmarket in search of canning tomatoes. And when he called asking if he should get 25 or 50 pounds, we both thought 50 would be best. [Read more…]
strawberry jam with vanilla bean and lime
Whenever we leave the city, one of us will inevitably say in the car on the way home “Can you believe we haven’t left the city since [some time we left the city]?” and the other of us will agree and then five minutes later one of us will remember some more recent time we left the city. But even if we get out more often than we think, it’s still probably only five or six times a year tops, and that includes trips to the suburbs to buy bulk diapers. So when we do manage to get out, we want everything to be perfect, and perfection is what we got this weekend when we went strawberry picking at Fishkill Farms in Hopewell Junction, NY. (If Fishkill seems like a weird name, it’s just Middle Dutch for Fish River.) [Read more…]