“Locavore” Knitting

March 26, 2011
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Do you know which sheep your mittens came from? I have a fabulously talented and creative friend named Gina. Quite appropriately, we met over gin and bonded over pickles. Well, canning at least. I met Gina when she was teaching a cocktail class. Gin was really involved and we soon discovered our shared passion for [...]

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Buy Me at an Auction!

March 25, 2011
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Bid on me and you may learn to make your own peck of pickled peppers! Tomorrow night, the Richmond Waldorf School will be holding their annual auction fundraiser. Among the many amazing things you can bid on while dancing the night away to the 80s is a class with me (Item #364) to be held [...]

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The Marmalade Incident

March 13, 2011
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The aftermath of the great marmalade incident of ’11. As mentioned in my last post, I learned to make marmalade. As I may not have previously mentioned, I can be a bit obsessive about new things. My Blue Chair Fruit Company visit may have triggered an obsessive streak of marmalade making. If you look at [...]

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My Visit to Blue Chair Fruit Company

January 30, 2011
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Rachel Saunders creates delectably modern takes on jam and marmalade with ingredients such as bergamot at her Oakland, CA company Blue Chair Fruit Company. My canning tendencies have always been decidedly more in the pickle camp. My few forays into the realm of fruit preserves, while perfectly passable and edible, have always felt uninspired and [...]

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Chicken Stock Test Run

January 25, 2011
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My attempt to capture the happy jiggle of the pressure canner weight. Before I teach a class I always like to do a test run of my recipe. Mostly out of anxiousness but also to confirm I have not left anything out of my class handouts. This was particularly important for my pressure canning class [...]

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