Shrub Syrup Recipe
A sweet and sour cocktail mixer that is a concentrate of fruit, sugar and vinegar. Just like a simple syrup, it can be added to most liquors to add tartness and sweetness to a cocktail.
Pumpkin Pie from scratch
Thanksgiving is in a couple of weeks and I'm already starting to plan for the annual feast. If your family is like ours, then the Thanksgiving holiday is a time when you put aside new recipes and return to traditional food favorites and guilty pleasures. Even though I love the turkey and the sides, the dessert is what I most look forward to. Pecan and Pumpkin pies are always a part of our holiday meals. Here is step-by-step recipe to make your pumpkin pie from scratch, starting with roasting your pumpkin and finishing with a whole wheat crust.
Making Pie Crust with Lard
One thing I love to do is make pies, including my own pie crust. A homemade pie crust with lard has a flavor and texture so superior to a store-bought crust and is so easy to make, that I never even think of buying one. If you have cold butter (and/or lard), flour, salt, and sugar, you can have a pie crust dough ready to put in the refrigerator in 10 minutes.
Piccalilli Pepper Relish
Today, Piccalilli Pepper Relish is still a great way to use up all those sweet and hot peppers that start overflowing in July and August. It has a sweet and sour tanginess that is great as a condiment for pork roast or fried chicken, or greens. Like any good relish, you can also put it on hot dogs and in deviled eggs. You can really use it as a table condiment the same way you use salsa or ketchup.
Low Sugar Blackberry Jam
A step-by-step recipe to make low-sugar Blackberry Jam. We find our blackberries by being urban foragers - finding berries in the city.
Chocolate Truffle recipe – simple to make at home
Oh my. Valentine's Day is tomorrow and we are snowed in. No chance to run out for cards or flowers or chocolates. I'm going to have to improvise with what I have in the pantry. I do have some good…
Making Beef Stock from bones
I recently bought a share of a beef cow with some friends. We split a half a steer between the five of us. My friend Casie had tracked down a farmer who could sell us meat that was organic, grass-fed…
Homemade Potato Gnocchi with quick tomato sauce
Gnocchi is Italian for "little lumps", which describes it perfectly. Gnocchi are like light little lumps of potato goodness. When they are done correctly, they should be as "soft as clouds". They are pressed with grooves to hold onto a sauce, making them pair perfectly with a basic homemade tomato sauce.
Italian Pickled Eggplant
As part of apertivo in Fano, Italy, I had eggplant that was delicious. I've had plenty of marinated or roasted eggplant before, but this was a tangy, raw eggplant pickle. When I came home, I knew that I had to try to make pickled eggplant myself.
Lion’s Tail cocktail made with homemade Pimento Dram
The Lion's Tail cocktail is a spicy combination of rye or bourbon, lime juice, syrup, bitters and Pimento Dram. It's especially good using this homemade Pimento Allspice Dram.
Homemade Sauerkraut – fermented foods at home
It's almost October and the cool weather has started settling in, even here in the muggy South. There is something about the cooler temperatures that sends me back into the kitchen to make food. And one of those foods that is…
Quick Refrigerator Pickles – easy garlic pickles
Making quick refrigerator pickles is easy, with no heat-processing involved. Here is a recipe for Spicy Garlic Refrigerator Pickles.