Isn’t that a pretty jar? I’ll tell you all about it, including its single-piece cap system and the nice company that sent it to me, over the weekend. At the moment, though, I’ve got 20Â minutes and a canjam deadline to meet.
SO! The answer, for me, was an apple carrot chutney from Anne Gardon’s Preserving [...]
Remember those mussels? I only ate half the bag the other day, leaving the other half for another project. So, the next night, in keeping with the Spain theme, I thought I’d try my hand at a paella. When I went through a vegetarian phase in graduate school, I used to make a pseudo-paella [...]
My “let’s pretend I’m in Spain” theme continues, this time aided and abetted by the fact that my husband’s out of town. I love my Billy goat dearly, but, you see, he’s allergic to shellfish. Ergo, when he’s away, I make myself a big bowl of mussels. The mussels themselves weren’t the world’s greatest—a tad [...]
Here we are, in the midst of the snowpacalypse, and my patience for winter is running out. I’ve been dreaming of warm, sunny places where it doesn’t snow 24″ every other month. I’ve been eating marmalade out of the jar and downing tropical fruit left and right, but clearly, it was time to step it [...]