Preserved Foods – Schmecken!

Marechal Foch Grape Jam Recipe

Preserving the backyard fruits of Summer.

Rhubarb Ginger Jam Recipe

Preserve the harbinger of spring year-round with a big, bold flavor.

Canning Chicken or Turkey Stock

Pressure canners are great for long-term preservation of homemade stock.

Grape Harvest

There’s a timelessness to following the ebbs and flows of the seasons. Growing … producing … stocking up. Then, in the dead of winter, getting a flood of memory from opening up a jar.

Candied Peel

Candied citrus peel is something simple and wonderful. 20th Century food industrialization turned it into an abomination. This is worth pulling back from the abyss.

Mettwurst Pâté

An Old World flavor-bomb appetizer that’s as easy to make as meatloaf.

Canning Pasta Sauce

I’ve come up with a very good recipe for canning pasta sauce from tomatoes grown in our garden. Great taste and not fussy to make.

The fourth day of July in the year of our Lord 2020 brought forth a country in the grip of pestilence and the Presidency occupied by the Antichrist. It also brought forth an abundance of rhubarb due to some pretty decent growing conditions this spring. Life goes on. I harvested a huge amount from sevenContinue reading “Rhubarb Shrub Recipe”

Rhubarb Juice

I needed to replenish electrolytes this past Sunday because it was hot – July come early hot – and I had a lot of outdoor work to do. Rhubarb is a surprisingly decent source of potassium and trace minerals. I came up with this recipe a few years ago and it’s a refreshing way ofContinue reading “Rhubarb Juice”

Fermented Mushrooms

The Great Sequestration has started me thinking more about food preservation as a matter of necessity and not just as a good foodie thing to do. When we did our first ever online grocery order, button mushrooms were on a crazy-good sale and I found a recipe for Polish preserved mushrooms. Fermentation is the preservationContinue reading “Fermented Mushrooms”