Beer and bacon are served for breakfast in this Potlicker version of sticky buns. Such a treat! The beer jelly imparts a mellow beer flavor and is less sweet than using cane sugar alone to make sticky buns. Try making these with Apricot Ale jelly and white sugar for a light and fruity taste or …
Guest post: Butter Bread Loaves
Guest Blogger: Meet Susan. Susan has a degree in Baking and Pastry Arts from the Culinary Institute of America and her peers bestowed an honorary award for merit in wine and beer. She is an accomplished pastry chef in DC and someone I go to for baking advice. Susan is my twin and I am …
Counting down 6 flavors that we made over and over and over again in 2013
The end of January 2014 closes out our official 2nd year as a specialty food producer. This past year has been nothing but up for us. Tall Dark and Handsome (aka Walter) and I spent the latter half of the year cranking out the jams to the tune of +1000 hand poured jars per week. …
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The Ultimate Vermont Gift Guide
The Ultimate Vermont Gift Guide, pulled together by our friends at Fat Toad Farm. What a great collection!
Chipper Chicken
Ask my father and he'll tell you that Father of the Bride is the worst movie ever. While my sisters and our mother howled with laughter as Steve Martin went into hysterics trying to live in a house that was being remodeled for a wedding, my own father just shook his head saying “that’s not …
Lemon Pickled Mouse Melons
The garden will still grow even if life gets in the way. We always begin very ambitiously. We plan large and plant larger. If I had known that we would be so dedicated to small farming then I would have bought a farm. Instead we have an adorable schoolhouse and the old school yard is …
Blueberry Jam Mojito
Wait! The leaves are starting to turn and I have barely enjoyed summer! I know there is something in the “How To Enjoy Life Handbook" about spending summer on an inner tube in some lazy body of water?... Yes??..... I knew it!! I am behind on some of this “Summer” thing. I have …
Green Garden Gazpacho
Here we are mid-summer and the garden gives plenty. We have armloads of lettuces, lots of broccoli, peas & herbs, and finally green tomatoes are starting to form! If our garden cooperates this year we hope to make tomato basil jam, hot yellow tomato-pepper jam, and green tomato jam. I am sure that anyone who …
Beer Jelly Vinaigrette
Summer is hopping and bopping along. We have been so busy playing with chickens, jamming the canner, and farmers marketing, that I haven’t had time to sow more seeds. No big deal? Well kinda. It means that I will be out of radishes before I know it! I haven’t decided if it is because I …
Wild Knotweed Jelly
This pretty pink jelly is the result of a local weed problem. Knotweed is an invasive plant that quickly takes over wastelands and riverbeds. My attitude towards this invasive species is that it is good for nothing . . . except for eating of course! Lucky for knotweed, people like me will come along and …

