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In our tiny kitchen we (Tall Dark & Handsome & myself) make over 2 dozen varieties of preserves on a regular basis but the thing we are most well known for and get the most questions about is our Vermont Beer Jelly. Beer Jelly? How did you come up with that?? Long story short, it was …
Marshmallows seem like they would be hard to make and a total pain to clean up after. In reality, they require just one key piece of equipment and only few ingredients. Often the ingredients include corn syrup, but not these babies. In place of the corn syrup I use jelly -- Potlicker wine jelly. If …
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Hello Spring! Spring is actually happening! For a while we were not sure it would ever get here. Spring means the beginning of wild food season for us. While you may already be picking dandelions and wishing for mushrooms, these 4 foraged foods are what get us hooked on wild every single year. Stinging Nettles: …
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 …
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 …
Finally! We are finding a groove in our new kitchen. Rocking and rolling along, it seems hard to believe that we started all of it at our kitchen table. The BEST thing about having my home kitchen back is that I no longer run the risk for pepper contamination. I have a pepper problem, an …
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Like pig candy only better!! While making these bacon cookies I was a wee bit skeptical of my own decision making skills and it must have shown. When I asked Tall Dark and Handsome how much bacon I should add to the cookies he said, “What does the recipe call for?” I said “What recipe?” …
Nancy Warner 