- Roasted feta! With a fig-thyme compote! I know what I’m making for my next party!
- Two gorgeous recipes from Fisher & Paykel. One for apricot halves preserved in a vanilla syrup and the other for pickled cherries (they’re on the other side of the world and having their summer right now).
- Whiskey sours made with marmalade. Sounds like a very good way to get your preserves working!
- I am entirely obsessed with citrus these days, and this white grapefruit tart speaks to me.
- Speaking of baked goods made with citrus, Autumn’s whole rangpur lime bars also beckon.
- As someone who is forever buying cans of chipotles to use a single pepper, I’m filing this tip away for the very near future.
- Shallot chile paste. Someday, when I wrest myself free of cookbook recipe testing, I will make this.
- When my mom was pregnant with me, she ate borscht by the gallon. I love it dearly (though I don’t know if that’s why), but Cathy’s recent post on the subject has me craving it madly.
- Speaking of soups, next time I make chicken stock, I’m throwing a couple beefy marrow bones in for extra depth of flavor.
- I buy my vinegar in gallon jugs and nearly always have a couple back-ups (I hate running out and being forced to buy the expensive quarts from my neighborhood store). This piece details the many ways you can use that vinegar all throughout your home.
- Last week, I was planning on writing a blog post about freezing food in canning jars, but the nice folks at Root Simple got there first. I may do it at some point in the future, but for now, I point you all in their direction.
Thanks to all of you who took the time to enter the canning stamp giveaway last week. I loved reading about all the people in your lives who appreciate the work you do preserving food! The winner is Trina (she blogs at Frugal Dr. Mom), who regularly sends her home-canned food to her father (what a nice thing to do!).
If you didn’t win and this stamp speaks to you, make sure to click over to the A Sensible Habit shop and check out the many options that Brandy has for sale!
Does your comment about “cookbook recipe testing” mean that you have a second cookbook in the works?
It does! If all goes according to plan, it will be out spring 2014.
oh !!! I am so looking forward to this. Love the first one and will anxiously await !!
I always feel so special when I get a shout-out from you 🙂 Hope you’re well! —S
First of all, so happy to hear that you have another book in the making. In regard to using marmalade in mixed drinks, my son Michael does this. He just invented a drink using Rye, Sriracha bitter, and my home made Meyer lemon marmalade. It has been called by him and his friends “The best new drink ever!” Just had to share.
Many thanks for including me in this roundup, Marisa. Looks like there is some good stuff here and I’m looking forward to clicking and reading…and to snooping around your site, which I’ve been meaning to do for awhile now. Cheers, Domenica
Thanks so much! I am sooo excited to win! I have not won anything online before so this is a real treat and for something so useful!
I love learning from you! I bookmarked at least five of the links above…
I’m going to try the marmalade boozy recipe with my blood orange, strawberry and rosemary marmalade…