Cocktails and Liqueurs

canning, preserving and a wintertime tart

January 8, 2011
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It’s January, and hardly the time for canning, right? The farmer’s markets are closed until Spring, the snow is sleepily falling. All those jars and pots and pans and lids have been tucked away since October. Why is it, then, this week, I started to feel the itch again? Is it because we’ve been living [...]

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A Tale of Two Desserts- Part One: Trifle

December 25, 2009

It’s a perfect Christmas here at our house. It’s our tradition to spend the day together, just the two of us (plus dog and cat.) We enjoy a leisurely breakfast – today I made apple fritters and, for me, a couple of my homemade breakfast sausages. We lingered around the tree with our coffee and [...]

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Making a Cocktail

November 11, 2009

Earlier this summer, I went on a liqueur making binge. Fruit was abundant. Vodka was cheap. I had some jars. I sort of admitted it was a binge when I wrote about it here. Now, three-four-five months later, I have nearly full quart jars of sour cherry, apricot, peach and blackberry liqueurs and two quarts [...]

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Lemons, Pickles and Ducks

October 12, 2009

A recipe in pictures or pictures with a couple of recipes. Limoncello and Lemon Curd. Click here Flickr for the details. And here’s a quick recipe for pickled peppers, with a nod to Michael Ruhlman’s Ratio. When you’re at the farmer’s market, grab a container of super fresh pretty peppers.Find a jar that will fit [...]

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Catching Up

July 13, 2009

I’ve always thought the term “busy as a bee” was just a folksy saying, but I watched a honeybee in the lavender today and I believe it’s true. They are busy creatures and rarely sit on a blossom, lounge around listening to their apian Ipods. And, evidently, neither do I. It’s been weeks since I [...]

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