Monthly Archives: November 2009

Dark Days: Week Two (broccoli, meatballs, potatoes)

Posted on November 30, 2009 by marisa

This was the first night I’ve cooked dinner in a full week. This rarely happens to me. I believe in making dinner and eating with Scott (even if we do end up consuming said meal at the coffee table instead … Continue reading →

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Gift in a Jar: Apple-Cranberry Jam

Posted on November 24, 2009 by marisa

Throughout my childhood and teenage years, my parents’ standard holiday gift for friends and family was a bag of my dad’s homemade pancake mix (in particularly flush years, we’d also gift a bottle of maple syrup). The bag would also … Continue reading →

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Dark Days: Good Eating, Week One

Posted on November 22, 2009 by marisa

From now until the middle of March, I’ll be diverging from posts about foods in jars (no matter how loosely related to jars they are) once a week to post my Dark Days Challenge meal. The goal of the challenge … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving Prep: Fork You Makes Gravy

Posted on November 21, 2009 by marisa

Long before I was putting food in jars on a regular basis, I was making a little online cooking show called Fork You. One of the first episodes Scott and I (long before the idea that we’d ever marry each … Continue reading →

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Whole Wheat Millet Pumpkin Bread

Posted on November 16, 2009 by marisa

Last week, I wrote about things you can do with pumpkin puree. Here’s what I ended up doing with mine. It’s a little quick bread I tossed together this afternoon that has a really nice crumb and uses toasted millet … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving Favorites

Posted on November 13, 2009 by marisa

As some of you may know, before I started this blog, I spent a lot of my time writing about food for Slashfood. Over the two years I was there, I amassed a fairly significant collection of holiday recipes and … Continue reading →

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Homemade Cranberry Jelly (for Thanksgiving)

Posted on November 13, 2009 by marisa

It’s pretty much universally accepted that no Thanksgiving spread is complete without a cranberry condiment of some sort. My grandma Bunny was partial to a raw cranberry-orange relish she made with hand-cranked countertop grinder (I do wish I had her … Continue reading →

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Preserving Pumpkin

Posted on November 11, 2009 by marisa

Don’t forget to sign up for one of my cranberry classes – jelly on 11/15 and chutney on 11/21 Last week I picked up my final CSA share. The box included an adorable little sugar pumpkin. Normally, I would have … Continue reading →

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How to Check That Your Seal is Good

Posted on November 10, 2009 by marisa

I got a question tonight from a reader of this blog about seal quality and as I was writing her back, I realized that there may be more of you out there who could benefit from a brief seal-testing tutorial. … Continue reading →

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Homemade Butter

Posted on November 4, 2009 by marisa

When I was growing up, I regularly begged my mom to tell me stories of when she was a little girl. As I grew, she began to run out of little girl stories and so started to progress to teen-age … Continue reading →

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