Preserves and Pickles



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 […]





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…





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…





Wild Elderberry Preserves with Honey and Almond

August 18th, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, Fantastic Fruits, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Lemon, Most Popular, Nuanced Nuts, Preserves and Pickles, Weekend Projects

Wild Elderberry Preserves with Honey and Almond

Perhaps you would have chuckled if you saw me leaping into the air, grabbing at bunches of elderberries that grow alongside Moody Road yesterday morning… without a ladder, one must leap!





Plum and Cardamom Preserves

July 20th, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, Fantastic Fruits, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Most Popular, Plums, Preserves and Pickles, Weekend Projects

Plum and Cardamom Preserves

This preserve came about thanks to one of my co-workers with a prolific plum tree in his backyard. He brought me about 4 lbs of delicious, ripe, and juicy black plums, which begged to be made into some sort of preserve…





Hot and Spicy Pickled Eggs

June 12th, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, DIY Food Projects, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Garlic, Ginger, Honorable Herbs, Most Popular, Peppers (Spicy & Sweet), Preserves and Pickles, Succulent Spices, Veritable Vegetables

Hot and Spicy Pickled Eggs

Pickles, pickles, pickles of every kind… that’s how the last few months have been going — pickled kohlrabi, pickled lemons, pickled cabbage, pickled onions, and now pickled eggs! Pickled peppers, pickled cucumber, and pickled okra…





Quick Citrus Pickled Red Onions

May 19th, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, Fantastic Fruits, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Most Popular, Onion, Orange, Preserves and Pickles, Veritable Vegetables

Quick Citrus Pickled Red Onions

It has been HOT around here lately. The thermometer climbed to well over 90 degrees four of the last five days, and reached over 100 last thursday. It was hard to choose which was worse–being outside under the hot sun…





Quick Purple Kohlrabi Pickles

April 22nd, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, DIY Food Projects, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Kohlrabi, Most Popular, Preserves and Pickles, Veritable Vegetables

Quick Purple Kohlrabi Pickles

Ever since I bought Linda Ziedrich’s book The Joy of Pickling, I’ve had pickles on the brain… not the typical pickles one usually imagines — you know, made with cucumbers, puckering-ly salty, sour, sweet, or vinegar-y…





Blood Orange Marmalade with a Hint of Rosemary

April 8th, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, Fantastic Fruits, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Lemon, Orange, Preserves and Pickles, Weekend Projects

Blood Orange Marmalade with a Hint of Rosemary

Citrus season is nearly always bountiful around northern California. On the days that I ride my bike to work I count no fewer than 30 orange and lemon trees drooping under the weight of their own fruit. Once I was tempted…





Moroccan Salt Preserved Citrus: Blood Oranges and Meyer Lemons

March 6th, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, DIY Food Projects, Fantastic Fruits, Lemon, Most Popular, Orange, Preserves and Pickles, Weekend Projects

Moroccan Salt Preserved Citrus: Blood Oranges and Meyer Lemons

Yaarrrr! It be citrus bounty week here in Los Altos Hills, CA… I gathered m’self about 10 schhwarly pounds of home-grown blood oranges and meyer lemons (from a co-worker and a neighbor, respectively). Ahh…




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