Today's post is brought to you today by one of my greatest partners in food crime...... Guest post: Potlicker Salmon My dear friend the Potlicker has been making some of the coolest jellies over the time we have known each other. We started eating them together standing next to the bread warmer at a restaurant …
Wine Jelly Poached Pears
Poached pears are sophisticated, decadent and very do-able. With only 3 ingredients including the fruit, these pears will stun your guests. The color of wine jelly poached pears are extraordinary and the taste sublime. Poaching pears is not hard, but requires a little bit of attention to make them perfectly. I occasionally baste the pears …
Jelly Land
I moved into jelly land this week. Yup, I plunked myself down right in the middle of stacks of jars, mounds of sugar and bottles of alcohol. No, the alcohol was not to console me because it is the dead of winter and fresh produce is hard to come by, it was all part of …
Pictures: Valentines Cookies & Red Wine Marmalade
Sticky Beer Glazed Chicken Wings
Beer Jelly Wings are literally finger licking good. They are sticky and sweet and the caramelized sugar turns a bit crunchy. The best part is that just as you are about to sink your teeth into juicy wing, the faint smell of beer or toasted hop mash wafts up. For Super Bowl this year, I …
Apple Cider Jelly
I never understood the apple thing. Then we moved to New England. I mean, growing up in Florida, OJ was THE juice. The only kind of apple cider that I knew or cared about was the sparkling kind that we got as a treat for holidays. The kid friendly champagne, if you will. Tall Dark and …
Raspberry Chablis Jelly
I am in canning mode. I want to spend my morning canning produce and making jelly. The idea of pickles never seemed so much fun! All my jellies began with the first abundant round of blackberries. I was requested to make a very large jar of pure blackberry jelly for my Tall Dark and Handsome. …
Blackberry Jelly
Good News! I found my canning supplies and you missed the first 3 batches of blackberry jelly. I can also now share with you that 34 cups of berries makes lots of juice. In the past two weeks we have joined the schoolhouse group as people who own a historic schoolhouse. This is the most …

