Preserves, Jams, Condiments and Pickles

Chocolate Raspberry Bars

Vegan and gluten-free, sweet and chewy, chocolate raspberry bars.

Apple and Kale Salad with Sweet Garlic Dressing

A fresh and crunchy salad – kale, cabbage and fennel – tossed with sweet cranberies and apples.

Pumpkin pie in a crispy and fluffy waffle – a yummy fall breakfast treat. Tomorrow, while you are eating your Sunday breakfast, I will be running 13.1 miles. For fun, I suppose, since I am certainly not running to win. While I’m running I will be thinking...

Red Pepper and Chili Jam

It’s that time of year when the garden chilis are being harvested and taking over your kitchens. And while I can’t promise you will use up the whole of your bumper crop with this jam, you will get to use a small lot of them. Besides, I’m in love with this stuff.

Apricot Dutch Baby Pancake

Whip up this fluffy Apricot topped Dutch Baby pancake in the blender and bake it in the oven while fresh apricots simmer into sweet yumminess

Best Ever All Purpose, BBQ Spice Mix

Serious kitchen efficiencies can be yours with this homemade BBQ spice mix. Use it on everything. Save time in the kitchen

How to make Pickled Red Cabbage

Trust me, you will want to have this spiced pickled red cabbage ready for your next summar BBQ You have to agree with me that this is the prettiest pickle you have ever seen. Wait — I might have said that before Ok – so regardless,,, The last CSA bin...

Mom’s Cucumber Salad

this recipe, slightly, otherwise this is the same salad my mom has been making since I was shorter than the countertops. Mom always adds sliced onion to the cucumbers. It is really good.

Chili Pepper Salt

So here is the thing. I have chilli peppers, lots of chilli peppers. Which seems incredible considering I bought 2 tiny little plants at the beginning of this summer and stuck them in a pot. And despite the weather – which was ironically a bit cold for summer – I have an abundance of chillies. I cooked with some, but I still have a bunch on the plants and I just hate watching them go to waste. Frost is coming.