This is just another iteration of one of the most popular recipes on the blog, Refrigerator Garlic Dill Pickles. Just like the original, it makes fast work of an otherwise more time consuming chore - and I maintain, with better results. Our hot pepper plants have been quite generous this year, providing us with a steady stream of Hungarian wax peppers, jalapenos, red cherry peppers and pepperoncini, plus another kind, for which I can't find the seed packet, but they look like jalapeno's taller ... Read More about Refrigerator Pickled Hot Peppers
Food Preservation
Tomato Jalapeno Jam
This was inspired by Mark Bittman’s recipe in the New York Times back some time ago. We found his version a bit too sweet for us, but liked it enough that I decided to see if I could alter it sufficiently to suit our taste. It’s not like I have a shortage of tomatoes for experimenting. In order to achieve a truly jam like consistency, you can’t reduce the sugar very much, because sugar is what gives jams and jellies their texture. Without it, this will just end up as a spicy tomato sauce. So ... Read More about Tomato Jalapeno Jam
Refrigerator Garlic Dill Pickles
This is another recipe that I'm moving over from my old blog, because everyone loves it so much. It is one of my most linked recipes, and one that ends up in CSA newsletters year after year. Not that I can blame anyone who is a fan of them, because these pickles are incredible easy to make and stunningly delicious. As is the case with my Bread and Butter Pickles, these are not canned. I just can't bring myself to bother with canned pickles, because we find them to be mushy and lacking in bright ... Read More about Refrigerator Garlic Dill Pickles
Blueberry Preserves {no pectin recipe}
It seems to be another amazing year for blueberries here in the northeast. The bushes are packed with berries, and they are sweet and juicy. Even if you aren't blessed to live next door to the family farm where 20 gargantuan blueberry bushes reside, you are still going to find great prices at the U-pick places, as well as at Farmer's Markets. We eat a LOT of blueberries when they are ripening, and we get a considerable number of them into the freezer for use in baking through the winter months. ... Read More about Blueberry Preserves {no pectin recipe}
Lemon Ginger Apple Butter
What do you make when life hands you apples? Like the half bushel of them that I picked up on sale because they were starting get a bit on the old side? You have to search pretty hard to find something better to do with them than make this Lemon Ginger Apple Butter. There is so much flavor here - deep and nuanced with undercurrents of the spices and lots of the zing of lemon and ginger. It ain't your granny's apple butter, that is for sure! Whenever I start working on a recipe idea, I look ... Read More about Lemon Ginger Apple Butter
Green Tomato Jalapeno Salsa
When you garden, you just never know. Last year we had so many jalapenos that I could not keep up with them. This year, the jalapenos are just not happy, and we have no idea why. We are getting a few here and there, but not enough to accomplish anything with them. Fortunately, there is Kevin, who is riding to work with Larry. Kevin has LOTS of jalapenos, which he doesn't even like all that much. His cucumbers haven't done well though, but that's ok - we have had LOTS of cucumbers this year. So, ... Read More about Green Tomato Jalapeno Salsa