Naturally Sweet Food in Jars is my third cookbook and was published in March 2016. It focuses on preserving with honey, maple, agave, coconut sugar, fruit juice concentrates, and dried fruits. You can find an array of ordering options here.
The idea for this book was initially sparked by this post, as well as the many alternatively sweetened recipes that have come since on this site. The finished book features more than 100 recipes for preserves, as well as a handful of recipes designed to help you use up some of what you’ve put up.
I had two primary goals in mind when I was writing Naturally Sweet. The first was to translate some of my most beloved sugar-sweetened recipes into those that used less refined sweeteners.
The second objective was to create new and novel recipes that would be safe for canning and that featured the various sweeteners in ways that made the most of their unique, individual flavors.
I also wanted to help change the conversation about preserving. So often, people dismiss it because they feel like the products created when you preserve aren’t always the healthiest.
However, by shining a spotlight on alternative sweeteners, I feel like I’ve created a collection of recipes that are able to balance health concerns with issues of safety and shelf stability.
And, as always, the recipes are relatively small batches that don’t require too much of your time and energy.
Happy Birthday! My mom always made angel food cake with strawberries and whipped cream for my birthday. That tradition continues. My favorite birthday meal is salmon and asparagus.
Happy Birthday to you! My birthday is May 21, and like Winnie-the-Pooh, I would love to eat eat anything with honey! Yummy!
Happy Birthday! Pancakes, waffles, or french toast (or all three) for me!
Happy birthday to you! Mine is Halloween and I love a big breakfast. I love giving out candy to the kids at night so I have the rest of the day for me.
Our family always has a fish fry on my birthday. All kinds of fish, some bought and some caught. And happy birthday to you.
Happy Birthday! Regardless of what you eat, you’ll feel even better about your birthday if you wear a tiara.
Happy birthday and many more! Three books now, I remember when you were writing your first, congratulations!!!!!!
I love going for breakfast on my birthday with much coffee
Happy Birthday, Marisa! Hope you have a great day! Pizza from the local wood fired artisan pizzeria (along with a nice bottle of wine!) is my favorite way to celebrate!
Happy birthday! Since college, I’ve been baking myself a cake for my birthday every year — usually, but not always, involving chocolate. Have a great day!!
My son has a birthday today and he insists on pound cake for his birthday treat – maybe you’ll do the same? Have a great day!
Happy, happy birthday! These days for my birthday, I prefer to eat what someone else besides me cooks (a day off for me). and something chocolate for dessert.
Happy Birthday! Favorite Birthday food depends what’s on the menu at the restaurant :-).
Happy birthday, Marisa! My favorite birthday celebration is with carrot or spice cake, and a nice dinner with family where someone else volunteers to clean up! Can’t wait to get a copy of your new book, because I turn often to Preserving by the Pint.
Happy Birthday to you! Looking forward to exploring your wonderful new book.
Wishing you a Very Happy Birthday.
Your Birthday is a special day..
One that’s just for you
A time for doing everything
You specially like to do..
And on this day that belongs to you,
The wish this greeting brings
Is for the joy you so deserve
And all life’s nicest things!
Hope you have a wonderful and enjoyable day
What I would like to eat on my birthday………..anyone’s else’s cooking besides mine for that day:}
Actually; I prefer having pizza and then fro dessert; a small, warm lava cake A la mode.
Thank you for this giveaway opportunity
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!!!
My favorite treat on my birthday is dark chocolate cheesecake and port.
Your new book sounds great. One of the things I appreciate about your blog is you do post ideas on how to use the items you have put up. That really helps when a person needs a bit of direction and inspiration.
By the way, your honey limoncello sounds wonderful!
The last time I actually celebrated was when I turned 18 and legal! Free at last!! Now, not so much! Have a great day with your selected celebrators!
Happy Birthday Marisa!! Around here we love cheesecake for our birthdays. 🙂 Congrats on your 3rd book! And thank you for the giveaway.
Happy birthday, Marissa. My favorite birthday treat is either a coconut cream pie with meringue or sour cream raisin pie.
Very merry birthday to you. On my birthday my husband bakes a cake (this only happens about once a year since I’m the cook between us). It’s stellar every year. I hope someone makes you something lovely.
Thank you for producing such an awesome book. I’m looking forward to cooking through it.
I met you in SF years ago before any books, you’d just updated your logo and shared it, as well as sharing canning tips. So nice to see your success! And the continued enthusiasm. Happy birthday to you! I eat whatever the heck I’m in the mood for on my birthday 😉
Happy Birthday! My favorite birthday treat is some type of fruit pie – fresh strawberry, raspberry or peach.
Happy Birthday! My treat of choice is a good croissant, optimally with a cup of milky coffee on a bench in a lovely park.
Angel food cake with whipped cream and strawberries. The cake has to be homemade and by me because I enjoy the process of the angel food cake making as much as eating it.
i like a homecooked meal made with fresh ingredients from the garden or farmers market.
Happy birthday! I love exotic foods so I made Vietnamese soup this year. Yum!
Happy Birthday! I recommend grape jam on toast for your breakfast! I’ve been making grape jam with my grandmother’s grapes for years, and it’s always a favorite. I’m excited to try out your recipe. Best wishes!
Happy happenings… Birthday food? Spicy dill pickle martinis.. Duh?!
I like spaghetti with meat sauce that my dad makes for my birthday. I like salty things more than sweet – so a cake isn’t as important 🙂 BUT I like a strawberry pop tart for breakfast on my birthday. My mom would only buy them for my birthday – and I always thought that they were SO special. Now I eat one for the memory it evokes….because they sure don’t taste as good as I remember!
Happy Birthday! I just love to have someone else cook for me on my birthday
I like spaghetti with meat sauce that my dad makes for my birthday. And a strawberry pop tart for breakfast. My mom would only buy them for my birthday – and I always thought that they were SO special. Now I eat one for the memory it evokes….because they sure don’t taste as good as I remember!
Happy Birthday! Growing up, I always had a big cookie cake for my birthday!
Happy birthday Marisa! I enjoy chocolate cake!
Happy birthday! I like to eat any cake with cream cheese icing on my birthday!
Strawberry shortcake!
My birthday is St. Patrick’s day so I like a cake with green icing. Happy birthday.
My birthday is next week, and I’m not sure what I will eat but my daughter notified me my cake needs pink frosting.
Happy Birthday! My birthday is in high summer so I like to eat my childhood favourite: toast-tites – a sort of homemade blueberry pop-tart
wish you a joyful birthday!!! Favorite birthday food? That would be sushi!
Homemade strawberry glazed cheesecake with chocolate drizzled over it. Happy Birthday!
Happy! Happy!! It’s always a toss-up between pumpkin pie & strawberry shortcake.
I have rhubarb pie for my birthday
Happy birthday! I hope you get to eat cake (without which I don’t feel like it’s been a birthday).
Congratulations on your publication and happy birthday!
For my birthday,I love lemon cake.
I have been doing lots of edibles in jar, mostly dehydrated fruits and your book sounds intriguing.
Happy birthday!!
Hey, Happy Birthday!
I like chocolate cake on my birthday. Everything else is negotiable.
I love seafood on my birthday!
For 35 years I had a chocolate cake with a pink heart in the frosting. My birthday is on Valentine’s Day.
Happy Birthday! I always love to eat…whatever sounds good that day! Guess it depends on the year!