Category Archives: sauces and condiments

Pumpkin Butter

Pumpkin Butter

There is probably no single food that captures the evocative core of fall as perfectly as pumpkin butter. It tastes like the month of October, Halloween and Thanksgiving all rolled into one, spicy and sweet and warming. What good, essential, addictive stuff. And it’s so easy to make. Don’t worry about perfectly measuring everything with...

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Blackberry Jam!

Homemade blackberry jam!

After picking blackberries along the Selway river in the warm afternoon of a late Idaho summer, the only way I could describe the damage to my skin is that it looked like a pack of wild kittens had been set loose on me. It really did, little nicks and scratches interlacing over every surface of...

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Wedge Salad

Wedge Salad!

Poor iceberg lettuce – it is the laughing stock of the lettuce family. The red-headed stepchild, the black sheep, the embarrassment. Once the mainstay of weeknight dinner salads across the nation, iceberg lettuce has fallen so out of favor that it is now an overpriced novelty at a health food store. Did you know that...

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Sweet Corn And Tomato Relish

Sweet Corn and Tomato Relish

This weekend we hosted a corn-themed, summer-inaugurating BBQ. Happily, the weather was perfectly warm and an impromptu dance party broke out on our rooftop deck. Sadly, I was not on the ball to get this relish onto the picnic table in time for the event. Nobody’s the wiser for its absence. It’s a mildly sweet,...

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Artichoke Pesto

Artichoke Pesto Crostini

My sister asked recently if I would post some artichoke recipes. Her timing was perfect, because the game plan was to have an epic week of artichokes featured right here. Yesterday, however, turned into something of an artichoke fail. I had discovered an intriguing recipe that incorporated more of the artichoke than you would typically...

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