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Homemade Wild Blackberry Jam

September 5th, 2010  |  by  |  published in All, Fantastic Fruits, Preserves and Pickles

Homemade Wild Blackberry Jam

Picking wild blackberries is something I truly miss about living in the Pacific Northwest. Blackberry bushes hang heavy with ripe fruit in late August and early September all over the state of Washington. After I finished my year of traveling and before I left for California, I spent an August and a September living in […]





Apricot, Cornmeal, and Sage Cookies

May 23rd, 2010  |  by  |  published in All, Fantastic Fruits, Honorable Herbs, Weekend Projects

Apricot, Cornmeal, and Sage Cookies

It’s not that often that I get fluttery thinking about cookies.  Most of the time cookies are cookies, and I could take or leave them (well, to be honest I’ll usually take them).  These cookies, however, are certainly an exception.  I think I could eat them everyday for the rest of my life.  They are […]





Five Spice Orange Preserves

March 23rd, 2010  |  by  |  published in All, Fantastic Fruits, Lemon, Orange, Preserves and Pickles, Weekend Projects

Five Spice Orange Preserves

These preserves are the result of a co-worker’s citrus bounty from his backyard tree. He brought in a bag of delicious, juicy oranges a few days ago, and I was the happy recipient…





Fresh Buttermilk Cheese with Lemon and Thyme

March 15th, 2010  |  by  |  published in All, Cheese, Delectable Dairy, DIY Food Projects, Fantastic Fruits, Honorable Herbs, Lemon, Thyme

Fresh Buttermilk Cheese with Lemon and Thyme

There is no cheese that I enjoy more than high quality, handmade ricotta. For years I poo-poo’d it because all I had ever tasted was the shelf stable, strangely homogeneous, fairly tasteless, mass-produced grocery store variety. And then a few years ago…





Roasted Crab with Fennel and Orange

February 22nd, 2010  |  by  |  published in All, Fantastic Fruits, Garlic, Honorable Herbs, Orange, Succulent Spices, Thyme, Weekend Projects

Roasted Crab with Fennel and Orange

Here it is, the end of Dungeness crab season and I am *finally* getting around to posting this delicious roasted crab recipe… don’t walk… RUN to get the last…





Orange, Pomelo, Lemon and Ginger Preserves

January 7th, 2010  |  by  |  published in All, Fantastic Fruits, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Ginger, Lemon, Most Popular, Orange, Preserves and Pickles, Succulent Spices, Weekend Projects

Orange, Pomelo, Lemon and Ginger Preserves

Yesterday I inaugurated my new canning equipment — a huge 12 quart stockpot, a canning funnel, a magnetic lid lifter, and a bright red rubber coated jar lifter. Joy! Granted…





Absolute Simplicity: Cucumber and Cantaloupe

August 26th, 2009  |  by  |  published in All, Fantastic Fruits, Veritable Vegetables, Weeknight Recipes

Absolute Simplicity: Cucumber and Cantaloupe

There’s a time for madeira spiked 5-hour onion soup. There’s a time for making mole with 40 ingredients. There’s even a time for making tempeh from scratch. Unsurprisingly, there is also…





Warm Blueberries with Sour Cream and Sugar

July 18th, 2009  |  by  |  published in All, Delectable Dairy, Fantastic Fruits, Weeknight Recipes

Warm Blueberries with Sour Cream and Sugar

Some days I ride my bike from Hannover to the small village where I work. One of the highlights of the ride is passing one of the strangest and cutest fruit stand I have ever seen…





Homemade Greek Orange Sausage (Loukanika)

September 16th, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, DIY Food Projects, Fantastic Fruits, Garlic, Honorable Herbs, Meats and Sausages, Most Popular, Orange, Sausages, Meats, Succulent Spices, Thyme, Weekend Projects

Homemade Greek Orange Sausage (Loukanika)

A while back, I got the idea in my head that I wanted to make my own sausage. Why? first and foremost, I love good sausage; secondly, I’m *very* picky about my sausage — it needs to be high quality…





Homemade Limoncello

August 29th, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, DIY Food Projects, Fantastic Fruits, Lemon, Most Popular, Weekend Projects

Homemade Limoncello

I was walking back from lunch the other day with my coworker Fritz, and he (very) jokingly proclaimed, ‘If it’s not instant, it’s not gratification!”. Well, as true as that rings much of the time, this recipe…




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