I had no Trick-or-Treaters this year. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Very disappointing. And what made it more disappointing was that there were kids Trick-or-Treating on my street, but they were too lazy to walk up my long front stairs to come get the candy. It’s like that every year, but at…
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If you saw the apple butter pie or plum butter posts, you probably are getting the message: fruit butters are easy to make even if you’re super busy. I was at the grocery store the other day and saw that pears were on sale. So clearly I was required by…
Do you like fruitcake? Let me rephrase that. Have you tried fruitcake? Because it seems that about 99% of fruitcake haters have never taken a single bite of fruitcake. And don’t get me started on people who hate it when you tell them it’s fruitcake but love it when you…
It’s definitely time to get started on my homemade Christmas gifts for the year. Up first is this plum butter! When I told my mother I was making plum butter she just kept saying “Ew!” over and over again. I’m not sure why. Plums are delicious, so plums cooked down…
Fruit butters are super-easy to make. You just puree some fruit, cook it with sugar until it’s the right consistency, and then can it. Simple, inexpensive gifts. Right? Well somehow I made a batch of apple butter that tasted great but looked really bad after I canned it. Light beige…
You may have noticed there aren’t a lot of recipes on here that use peppers. There are two excellent reasons for that: I loathe them. And it turns out, I’m pretty allergic to them! One of the few positive results on my skin-prick test that didn’t bring me to tears!…