Coconut Flour Breakfast Cakes

| January 11, 2012

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Souffle-like fruit-on-the-bottom cakes made with coconut flour and almost no sugar make a lovely filling breakfast on a cold morning!

Give’m Blood ‘n’ Vinegar, Wot Wot!

| November 8, 2011

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It’s one of those things I can’t unthink—now that I know I can make chicken stock from picked carcasses, I simply cannot resist doing so, even when I can barely squeeze another quart into the freezer. And now it is going to be the same way with homemade vinegar. How could I ever throw away [...]

Pear-Shaped

| November 7, 2011

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Preserving a box of Bartlett pears via canning and dehydration.

Povitica

| October 27, 2011

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The October 2011 Daring Bakers challenge was an unusual filled holiday bread called povitica; I made two gorgeous loaves filled with apples, walnuts and cinnamon.

Apple a Day

| October 17, 2011

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I love using every part of a purchase! In this case, the scraps from canning applesauce became apple jelly, and the cores from making dried apple rings became cider vinegar.

Honeyed Plums

| October 16, 2011

Italian prune plums are halved and canned in a bath of sweet spices and honey syrup—these gorgeous preserves will be well-appreciated come winter!

Out of the Wild

| October 13, 2011

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From wild plums growing in the greenbelt to jars of orange jam in my pantry.

The Cat’s Away

| September 30, 2011

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A week’s worth of dinners cooked in my mom’s absence, mostly with a Mexican influence; and a recipe for watermelon salsa.

Dregs

| September 29, 2011

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The last grape post of the season—canning syrup and pie filling, baking pies, and straining homemade vinegar!

Ombre

| September 16, 2011

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Tons of grape jelly made from homemade juice strained through a pillowcase—this was quite the project!

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