Pickled Onions for Cocktails

Though you wouldn’t know it from my timing, I was very excited about this month’s CanJam featured cannable good: alliums. Reason A: I’m not the world’s greatest pickler, but I found the all those carrot pickles to be downright inspiring. Reason B: Although I haven’t yet gotten into the make-your-own-liquor craze, I do like me [...]

Hooray, hooray, for yellow mole!

Perhaps you’ve picked up on the themes in my recent posts. A) I like to travel to Spanish-speaking countries. B) I am really, really sick of this year’s epic Philadelphia winter, and prefer to imagine that I am elsewhere until the tulips start blooming. The good news is that, by the time this post is [...]

Dried Papaya

I like papayas. They remind me of the Dominican Republic, where I spent a week two years ago sitting on the beach, drinking rum cocktails, and watching people kite surf. (No kite surfing for me, thanks. I like my neck.) Here in West Philly, where we’re blessed with a large immigrant population, you can find [...]

Pumpkin Pear Soup

My delightful billy goat made this delicious soup with ingredients that came from our basement (mostly). We’re not participating in the Dark Days challenge, but it almost qualifies, depending on how you classify the pears. We used fresh pears from a not-terribly-local-or-organic source, but if you want to be exceedingly virtuous, you could make this [...]

Jars and Lids

So many odds and ends have been piling up while I’ve been hiding my head under the snow (and an avalanche of manuscripts)!

First things first. The winner of the 4-oz jar of apple-carrot chutney is Ruth, a fellow canjammer. Check our her gorgeous Etsy site!

I also owe you guys an explanation about that interesting hexagonal [...]

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