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Upon having discovered Mes Confitures | The Cracked Teacup
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Upon having discovered Mes Confitures. June 7, 2010. Well, it’s been awhile. Since last I updated, I had a baby. Hence the reduced blogging. My urge to make preserves seems only to have strengthened, though, and now that summer’s here in its full glory, I’m at it again. For Christmas I was given a copy of Christine Ferber’s Mes Confitures, which I had heard many good things about over on the Harvest Forum. Posted in canning/ preserving. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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compost! warning: rambly. | The Cracked Teacup
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June 21, 2009. I discovered the Compost Forum. Let’s just say I was really glad I was wearing gloves. All the life is a good sign, though…even unearthed a couple of big mama earthworms toward the bottom of the pile, which couldn’t have made me happier. Best of all, I now have a few good inches of nice dark soil left from the bottom of the old locale that I can use in my garden. Who knew I could ever get so excited about rot? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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Strawberry orange balsamic jam | The Cracked Teacup
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Strawberry orange balsamic jam. May 31, 2009. The strawberries are in at the farmer’s market! A couple of months ago I made a parfait consisting of layers of pastry cream and strawberries drizzled with a balsamic-orange syrup. The syrup was so good atop the strawberries, I decided that I must do a version of this in preserve form. As I so often do, I used Pomona’s Universal Pectin. To make this low-sugar, bright-flavored jam. Don’t try substituting another pectin here, it won’t work. You are commenting u...
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June 3, 2009. My friend Abbie is in Mali again, doing linguistic fieldwork in a Dogon village. She keeps an online journal. Allows me to see things through her eyes, if only in brief glimpses. If you’re interested in other cultures, travel, Mali, linguistics, the realities of fieldwork, do give it a read. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out.
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Carnivorous plants! | The Cracked Teacup
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July 31, 2009. Now is the time to form your betting pools with respect to how many of the plants I will kill, how soon, and in what order. Personally, I think it’s a toss-up between the Nepenthes (just because it’s my favorite, that means it has to be the first to go, right? My Sarracenia purpurea continues to thrive, at least. Growing a new pitcher every other week, it seems like! Posted in carnivorous plants. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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Habanero Gold | The Cracked Teacup
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August 2, 2009. Scored some habaneros at the farmer’s market yesterday and so was finally able to try out Habanero Gold. It is delicious. I used Carol’s big batch adaptation. Of the recipe, which yielded 12- 4oz jars plus some extra, which I put in an extra jar for us to enjoy immediately (I always feel silly canning something and then opening a jar of it immediately). This isn’t for you, and if you like hot. Posted in canning/ preserving. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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July 24, 2009. In jam-making news, I made some blueberry lavender jam. I’d give the recipe, but I don’t think I need to. Just find any old recipe for blueberry jam (from the pectin recipe insert, for example), and add a sprig or three of lavender to it.Fish out the lavender before jarring it up. There you go. Yes, I think that’s it. For the first time in many years of buying stuff online, someone has failed to follow through with the product. It makes me sad; I really wanted the stuff I bought! Build a w...
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Peach Butter | The Cracked Teacup
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August 10, 2009. I may never go back to peach jam. The flavor was so bright and concentrated– peach jam with the volume turned up several notches. I got about 6 pints in the end, one of them in the form of 4oz jars for gift-giving, but I may not be able to bring myself to give any of it away. My peach butter. All mine. Carnivorous plants update: Something ate one of the pitchers on my. Posted in canning/ preserving. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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The Cracked Teacup | muttering and puttering | Page 2
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May 26, 2009. So for the time being, a report on the tea in my latest order, which contained my current favorite breakfast tea, Assam Koilamari. Which I had just run out of this morning, with the result that I had only had one cup and was just able to summon the energy to drag myself to the mailbox to retrieve the life-restoring shipment). Also Moroccan Mint. Tea, a long-time favorite of mine for iced tea, and a sample of Tung-Ting Milky Oolong. And a complimentary sample of Kandy Ceylon BOP. Pretty sure...
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Canning tomatoes | The Cracked Teacup
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July 30, 2009. Scored a large box of tomatoes for canning and went to town on them this past week. Came out of it with several tomato-stained shirts, a lot of tomato skins for the compost pile, and 6 pints each of crushed tomatoes, roasted tomato garlic soup. And chunky basil pasta sauce. The first time I canned tomatoes was many years ago, using the “. 8221; Me[exasperated]:” Mom, they’re TOMATOES.”), which is probably for the best, since. For the best info on canning tomatoes, visit the NCHFP website.
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