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Filed under: Recipes, Fruit, High-fructose corn syrup, Thanksgiving, Christmas When it comes to cranberry sauce, I've always been partial to the canned stuff. I like the shape that the can makes, and I like the simplicity of it - just crank it open and give it a couple of jiggles. However, this year, when I went to pick up the standard can, I ...

It isn’t right to torment your husband. I know this, and yet, when it comes to Banana & Vanilla Wafer Pudding (’nilla wafer puddin’ for short), I can’t help myself. It’s just so good. Yes, my husband has had months of professional French-style culinary training. Yes, he can braise, glaze and flam-baze with the ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Fruit, Baking, Southern States, Fall Yesterday I wrote about muscadine grapes, which include a coppery green variety known as the scuppernong. Well they've been on my mind all week. On Tuesday, I stood in a friend's mother's backyard around sundown, fending off mosquitoes as I plucked heavy handfuls of scuppernongs ...

Filed under: Recipes, Fruit, Slashfood Ate, Fall One of the activities that I look forward to the most in the fall is going apple picking. The variety of apples available is extraordinary: Gala, Golden Delicious, Empire, Granny Smith, and many more. Ah, the gorgeous bright colors shine off each fruit! I highly encourage everyone to embrace the ...

Filed under: Vegetables, Recipes, Fruit, How To, Spirits, Liquor Cabinet, Liqueurs, SummerA couple of weeks ago, I wrote a review of Vlada, a New York bar that specializes in infused vodkas. As I mentioned in my post, my experiences at Vlada had made me nostalgic for the moonshine that I had once enjoyed in Southwest Virginia. Back in the day, I ...

Filed under: Teas, Whisky, Recipes, Fruit, America, Spirits, Ingredient Spotlight, Guilty Pleasures, Summer Over the past few summers, cherry-based cocktails have become something of a signature for me, to the point whereupon being proposed to in mid-July a few years back, I immediately began pulping and freezing cherries for use in our wedding ...

We somehow managed to pick about six pounds of plums before I decided that something must be done. So, as I did last year, I decided to make plum jam. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: ''Plumalicious Summer Plum Jam'', url: ''http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2008/07/10/plumalicious-summer-plum-jam/'' });

Filed under: Teas, Snacks, Recipes, How To, SummerAre you an avid tea drinker looking for a different way to enjoy your tea this summer? A lot of tea drinkers go iced in the warm summer months, some even adding lemonade to their iced tea, but there is an even colder way to enjoy your tea in the summer months if you enjoy green tea: ...

It’s hot here. Brutally hot. The kind of hot where the scorching seat of your car can inflict third-degree burns and the sidewalk can literally cook eggs. It’s too hot to venture outside. It’s too hot to move. It’s almost — dare I say it — too hot to eat. Wait. It’s never too hot to [...]

Filed under: Breakfast, Dessert, Recipes, Fruit, Spring, SummerFresh papayas are in season, and I keep finding myself in the grocery store, picking up various specimens and thinking ''what are the chances I could eat all this before it went bad?'' I used to not like fresh papaya. I found them sickly sweet, tasting of cheap perfume with ...