During the years I was in middle school, my family lived in a house just off Canyon Drive, in SW…
Homemade Jam
Jam on it: A toast to homemade jam, from raspberry to blackberry to whatever-you-got-berry.
Several weeks ago, I got up early on Saturday morning, collected my friend Shay(she’s my regular fruit-picking buddy) and drove…
I had grand plans for sour cherries this year. I knew that the sweet cherry crop had been bad, so…
Peaches have become one of those fruits that is nearly always available, but they are only transcendent during the months…
When it comes to canning, blueberries were my gateway fruit (although they didn’t usher me through the doorway into the…
People in the Pacific Northwest take wild blackberries for granted. In fact, they’re something of a nuisance, lining highways and…
A couple of months ago, based solely on a handful of tweets and a couple of emails, I logged onto…
Throughout the beginning of September, my friend Albert kept tweeting about all the figs he was picking throughout the city.…
Throughout my childhood and teenage years, my parents’ standard holiday gift for friends and family was a bag of my…
For the longest time, I’ve had it in my mind to make an gingery apple jam. I wanted something that…
For months now, I’ve been working on finding a way to make a jam from apples that is satisfying and,…
A couple of weeks ago, I got the most inspired idea from a reader. Knowing that Passover is around the…