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The Pantry goes Pop!

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Hey canning nerds,
I will be at the Puces Pop marketplace this weekend selling my wares.
The Puces Pop marketplace, my fellow preserves perverts, is a little bazaar/market/fair where all kinds local crafters and artisans gather to hawk their poetry zines, vegan soaps and kooky jewelery designs. This year, I enlisted and have joined their ranks.
Come by [...]

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A vintage harvest

Monday, September 28, 2009

My mom volunteers at a charity furniture and book shop run by the Victorian Order of Nurses here in Montreal called NOVA. She sometimes snaps up some vintage cookbooks and old Gourmet magazines for me when they come in, plus I can’t resist these things when I come across them in secondhand bookshops so I’m [...]

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The tickles of pickles

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Pickle passion is blowing in the wind.
Last weekend in a bar, an acquaintance was raving about his grandma’s recipe. Said he’s run into old girlfriends unseen for 10 years who still get starry-eyed at the memory of his granny’s otherworldly pickles. Told me he’d try to dig the recipe up for me. Another friend I [...]

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Plum-ing the depths

Monday, September 21, 2009

I fell prey to the charms of the Italian plum again this year. It took an almond, plum and orange cake from the River CafĂ© Easy book, where those pretty purple things really sang their little hearts out. They’re in season so I’ve been stockpiling.
Yesterday I spun some into some plum butter, partly based on [...]

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The teaches of canned peaches

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Yikes. It’s that time of year. End of summer. Harvest time. Been having a hard time keeping up. Still need to post about my marinated eggplant, tomatoes packed in their own juices and greengage plum jam from Christine Ferber’s book Mes Confitures.
But first things first. Here’s an update on something I made about two weeks [...]

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Piccalilli palare

Monday, September 7, 2009

Can’t you picture Morrissey penning a plaintive, brooding ode to this piccalilli, about how he could never taste piccalilli again after the last time, which was when his lover fed him some right before jilting him and then dying in a car crash? OK, maybe not.

I always listen to music while canning and “piccalilli” made [...]

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