Share One of my favorite aspects of the food swaps Emily Paster and I have been organizing is the motivation to innovate and cook new things. I wanted to prepare something savory, something that people would be able to enjoy more than once, and something easy to transport. As the unbelievable spring weather has had…
Share With every snowflake that drifted to the ground this morning, the death knell tolled for those sweet, gleaming, red apples piled high at the supermarket. Soon that moment of delight when my teeth make contact with their sweet flesh after piercing the cheery skin will be just a memory, like the crinkle of riotous…
Share Wanting to kick my jams up a notch this summer, I picked up a copy of Better Homes and Gardens Canning magazine at the supermarket checkout. Choosing it over the latest issue of Glamour or People definitely forced me to face my decline in sex appeal, but having lugged around my pregnant belly for…
Share I only started making my own jams a year ago, but my little jars of summer sunshine helped our family survive our first Chicago winter. Canning is one of those things that seems completely daunting but is actually really easy. Yesterday, I shared some quick and easy blueberry jam recipes. Later next week, I’ll…
Share There’s a French fable by La Fontaine that French kids are taught in school called La Cigale et la Fourmi (the Cricket and the Ant) which could become the motto of any canning enthusiast. It tells the story of the fun-loving cricket who sang all summer long while the ant diligently built up his…
