Currently browsing category

Canning / Preserving

Pickled Mushrooms Recipe

  Pickled Mushrooms Recipe is delicious home made version. Budget friendly, with bay leaves, garlic cloves, and black peppercorns, this pickled mushrooms vintage recipe is easy to make with alcohol vinegar or wine vinegar.   One early Saturday morning, while still extremely hot but after hard rain pouring all night,… Read more »

Blueberry Curd

Blueberry Curd: the best investment of the season! After you make your breakfast smoothie or fruit salad, if you have a handful of blueberries left over, the best way to use them is to make a curd or Vintage Blueberry Coffee Cake . As these beautiful blueberries are known to… Read more »

Homemade Peach Jam Recipe

  Homemade Peach Jam Recipe is the best way to preserve fresh peaches in amazing homemade spread. Great recipe for beginners and experienced cooks.   Have you ever made jam on your own? The flavours releasing during the process are wonderful. Once you get ripe peaches, this simple pectin jam… Read more »

Limoncello From Scratch

  Limoncello From Scratch : Italian freezer drink. Best Limoncello from Scratch recipe ! Limoncello from Scratch requires several phases to make but it is worth of every second ! If you cannot get Sorrento lemons ( Limone di Sorrento ), Eureka Lemons are excellent as well. But if you… Read more »

Kumquat Curd

  Kumquat curd is delightful, tart, silky specialty for all kumquats recipe lovers!   Everything is mini sized here. Even the puff pastry flower cups. And again, I wonder if this could be a breakfast or an afternoon snack, or both 😊 Since kumquat is an olive sized tangerine, I… Read more »

Isabella Grape Jam

  Isabella Grape Jam: Heard it through the grapevine …   I still remember the fragrance the Isabella grapes released after rain in my grandmother’s backyard. We used to play hide-and-seek there under the grand grapevine roof, all around the chairs, running among the Isabella vines and peonies. Is there… Read more »

Caramel Apple Jam

  Caramel Apple Jam: falling into perfect combination of flavors! So homemade and comforting  … Apple time, people! One of my closest friends has returned from her holidays just for a few days to pick the apples up at her countryside garden. She also takes a special care of heirloom… Read more »

Blackberry Apple Earl Grey Jam

Blackberry Apple Earl Grey Jam: Apples and seedless blackberries jam with a hint of Earl Grey. Give me Five (o’clock tea) please ! Blackberries and apples are an excellent combination for a jam. Earl Grey Tea leaves with its’ bergamot flavor makes it definitely one of my favorite jams. Imagine… Read more »

Nasturtium Orange Jam

  Nasturtium Orange Jam: When Miss. Flower meets Mr. Orange. Flamenco fire. A bit of sweet and a bit of bitter.   Flowering of nasturtium lasts for several months: mid spring until late fall. This is the season to make this nasturtium orange jam. Nasturtium flowers have peppery, spicy and… Read more »

Raspberry Agar Jam

  Raspberry Agar Jam is easy and healthy fruit jam recipe with chopped lemon and agar agar powder.   Agar is natural gelatin and is used as replacement for pectin in jams. Also, it is a helpful culinary ingredient and can be used to thicken soups, make jellies, custards, ice… Read more »