I love cranberries, so I stock up when they appear in markets in autumn. (I’m ordering some plants for the homestead, so by next Thanksgiving I may have my own!) I, of course, like making cranberry sauce, but this year I’m not home, so I decided to use my first bag of cranberries for cranberry-gingerbread [...]
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Cranberry-Gingerbread (Pecan) Pancakes, for the morning after . . . .
Posted in baking, bread, breakfast, Cooking And Baking, cranberries, dried fruit, Food, fruit, ginger, health, recipes, whole grains, tagged baking, breakfast, holiday, holidays, recipes on November 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Cleaning out the freezer: bread pudding with apples and cranberries
Posted in apple, baking, bread, butter, cake, comfort food, Cooking And Baking, cranberries, dessert, frugal living, fruit, walnut, whole grains, tagged baking, dessert, Food, recipes on November 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’ve recently been on a mission to re-organize and clean out our freezers. I know we have things that have been in the arctic depths too long. The other day on a clean out I found some sweet bread (coffee cake remnants?) that I had frozen in chunks. I tasted it. Hmmm. It was okay. [...]
My favorite jelly: a teaser
Posted in chile, Christmas, Christmas food, Cooking And Baking, cranberries, Food, frugal living, fruit, gardening, organic food, organic gardening, peppers, peppers, preserving the harvest, recipes, red pepper, red peter pepper, sweet things, tagged Food, recipes on October 11, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Like a brilliant jewel, pepper jelly made with red chiles and cranberry juice tantalizes for fall feasts and Christmas presents. I’ll post the full recipe in a couple of days. It’s incredibly easy and oh-so-delicious with cream cheese and crackers, on cornbread, or even as a sweet-sour-and-hot drizzle sauce for chicken, fish, or [...]
Homemade Peach Cobbler: simplifying my Georgia peach grandmother’s recipe
Posted in apple, baking, blackberries, blueberries, butter, cast iron, comfort food, Cooking And Baking, cranberries, dessert, family, Food, ice cream, organic food, peaches, Southern food, sweet things, vegetarian, whole grains, tagged cooking, dessert, family, Food, recipes, summer on July 21, 2010 | 17 Comments »
I can’t get enough of summer fruit. Every day I gorge on melons and berries, knowing that their days in my farmers’ market and garden are limited. It’s peaches, though, that not only make me know it’s summer but that also take me back to my roots. There simply is nothing in the world like [...]
Roast Turkey and Wild Rice Soup with leeks, carrots, celery, beans, and chile
Posted in acorn squash, apple, beans, butter, carrots, celery, chicken, chile, Community Supported Agriculture, cranberries, CSA, frugal living, health, herbs, leeks, locavore, rice, soup, whole grains, winter squash, tagged cooking, dinner, economy, family, Food, photography, recipe, recipes on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’re still polishing off the wonderful pasture-raised turkey that I got from Falling Sky Farm for Thanksgiving. You may remember that we ate a lot of turkey eat fresh then, but I also broke it down enough immediately to freeze some in various serving sizes. Today I’m going to use about four ounces of the turkey along [...]
