Doris and Jilly Cook

I spent last weekend at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, teaching a three-day workshop on local food preservation methods. Ordinarily, this is not a sappy blog, but bear with me. To have the opportunity to share my enthusiasm for canning, freezing, dehydrating, pickling, and fermenting with eager strangers, in a setting as beautiful [...]

Philly folks: If you’re in town June 21st, please consider attending or supporting Philadelphia’s Taste of the Nation night at the Lowe’s Hotel. There will be food from fabulous restaurants, specialty cocktail stations, beer and wine, and a silent and live auction, and you might catch a glimpse of Philly’s own Top Chef finalist, Jennifer [...]

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 [...]

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 20  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 [...]

Happy Holidays, blogworld! I’m mostly on blog holiday this week, waiting for the Great Can Jam of 2010 to begin next week. Meanwhile, if you’ve been reading our feed, please check out our redesigned site, with more information about cooking and canning classes and the Farmer’s Daughter Restaurant and Café. (And if I use this [...]

You may have noticed that we’ve slowed down at bit here at Doris and Jilly. We have many and varied excuses. Canning season is winding down, and Jilly is (understandably!) devoting her attentions to her new restaurant, The Farmer’s Daughter Bakery and Cafe, in Princeton, Indiana. The other problem is that I, Doris, am supposed [...]