Our Potomac Vegetable Farms CSA bag was full of ripe summer tomatoes last week, after a slow and soggy start to tomato season here in Virginia. Unfortunately, we were leaving town the day after our pick-up. Of course, that was also the day we got the notice that the boxes of surplus canning tomatoes were […]
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Preserving Summer: Tomato Jam
August 31st, 2009 · 10 Comments
Tags: cooking with kids · CSA · preserving · recipes · tomato · vegetables
Preserving Summer: Plum Honey Vanilla Jam
September 12th, 2008 · 6 Comments
After conquering my fear of canning, the next item on my kitchen project list was making jam. I had recently stumbled across this lovely Green Gage Plum & Vanilla Jam recipe at Chez Pim which sounded simple enough. I had some green Shiro plums and Italian prune plums to work with. I really wanted to […]
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Preserving Summer: Crushed Tomatoes
September 9th, 2008 · 12 Comments
I remember my mom canning when I was young, mostly applesauce and jams. It was an all-day production, at least with the applesauce, and something I never really thought to do myself. But as we’ve been savoring our local summer produce and starting to think about the long winter days just around the corner, it […]
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