Christmas 2014
My parents came to spend the day with us on Christmas Eve and take me grocery shopping for the holiday meals. I was pretty exhausted from a night of very little sleep between the boys’…
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Coconut Flour Breakfast Cakes
Souffle-like fruit-on-the-bottom cakes made with coconut flour and almost no sugar make a lovely filling breakfast on a cold morning!
Honeyed Plums
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
From wild plums growing in the greenbelt to jars of orange jam in my pantry.
Betty’s Tea
A nourishing tea party menu in honor of an elderly friend of ours: crumpets with homemade jam, raw clotted cream, and honeyed lemon curd, plus tzatziki tuna salad cups and lilac-infused syrup to sweeten the…
Stalking Rhubarb
Homegrown rhubarb and the first jams of the year: strawberry-rhubarb with cinnamon and cherry-rhubarb with vanilla.
Basket of Bartletts
You can't beat a brown-butter cake made with pantry staples and studded with chunks of melty bittersweet chocolate and juicy pear.