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Markets are where you will find the jam Queen and her resident Jamarchists-in-training every weekend all summer long. Emma and I have been having a great time and enjoying all the lovely people we get to meet! Come visit if you haven’t yet, or become a weekly visitor (our favorite!) and taste the new flavors like [...] We’ve been having lots of fun pickling strawberries! We experimented with a host of flavors and settled on the mildest white vinegar with a host of spices to make it a delicious. We used perfectly ripe little strawberries from Red Jacket Orchards in upstate New York. We added Thai Basil from my boyfriend Ben’s Brooklyn Grange [...] Jam has been a theme in a lot of children’s literature over the years. Jam somehow finds a way into our collective learning as a metaphor for family, community, eating and sharing. As a librarian and jam maker, I’m going to share some of my favorites with you. The most famous kid’s book about jam is [...] You asked for it and here it is! Strawberry Preserves with Mint & Pink Peppercorns This is a recipe for whole strawberries preserved in their juice. Using small, sweet early season strawberries is necessary. You can find these in the farmer’s market for the next few weeks. As noted in previous posts, I’ve been working on a beer jelly all winter and the first batches were ready for the second Smorgasburg Market on May 28th. There was lots of good response, my favorite being a gentleman who took a taste unknowingly and said “what is this jelly and why does it make [...] We’ve been working on a new Spiced Beer Jelly throughout the winter and have settled on a recipe. We combined Sixpoint Craft Ales Mad Scientist #3 beer, local apples from Terhune Orchards in New Jersey, grains of paradise, black cardamom, Indonesian Cinnamon, lemon juice, sugar, and all natural pectin. Chris — who owns Eastern District, [...] perfectly cut by my sous chef, mr. ben flanner adding the hibiscus crazy colors as the rhubarb and hibiscus boil! Spring is here and the first edible jammable produce is starting to pop up on local farms and at the market! On a rainy spring afternoon, I trudged to the market in my rain boots to bargain my first [...] I’ve been getting lots of emails about jam classes this summer, so I finally booked them. Learn the art of jam making with me! I’ll show you how to take advantage of your victory garden, local CSA or farmer’s market and make delicious homemade jam in these hands on classes. You’ll learn the time-honored tools [...] Every spring my family forages for ramps together in the forest near where I grew up in the Hudson Valley. We forage and then go cook a big meal together using our bounty. It’s a wonderful and rewarding tradition, and the food tastes so delicious, as though we can taste the riverbed and the joyous [...] The New York Public Library has an amazing archive of 40,000 menus from restaurants in New York and around the world, going back a century or more. They’re in the process of transcribing 10,000 menus in the library’s online gallery to turn it into a fully searchable database that can be browsed by dish, beverage or [...] |
Our jam cookbook is almost here! Whoopee! It debuts August 2nd, but you can score a copy now. Purchase Jam On: The Craft of Canning Fruit at your favorite bookstore or from the following sites: |
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