Links: Winter Baking, More Citrus, and a Winner

My husband turned 38 on Saturday, and so we spent most of the last three days celebrating in a very lovely, low-key way. I blew off doing any work on Friday and we went on a mission to find a new love seat (we bought one two years ago from Pottery Barn and it is falling to pieces. Most disappointing). The next day, I made a big dinner and Scott’s mom came over. We ate ourselves silly, watched a movie and then went on a late night adventure through the snowfall to Whole Foods. Sunday, we sat under blankets and binge-watched season three of Veronica Mars (it is my current obsession). It was a truly delightful weekend and I’m sad to see it end.

• More marmalade, this time with Sweeties, a grapefruit-pomelo hybrid.
• Buttermilk tangelo scones.
• Yeasted banana bread.
• Lemon caramel sauce (there’s a recipe like this one in Preserving by the Pint, as well).
• There’s no easily extracted summary line for this blog post, but it’s mostly about family, food, and homemade soup. You should read it.
• Brownies with swirls of strawberry jam.
• Bacon jam. I keep meaning to try making a batch of this stuff!
• Pickled pintos, corn, and poblanos (book mark this one for late next summer).
• How to reprocess jams and jellies, from an expert.
• On taking a freezer inventory (this would work equally well for a pantry of preserves).

As always, so many thanks to all of you who took the time to enter the Worker B giveaway last week. The winner is long time commenter, first time winner Tammy B. (#210). For all of you who didn’t win, don’t forget that the Rescue Putty is 20% off through the end of this month.

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