All posts filed under: seasonal feature

peach habanero hot sauce

peach habanero hot sauce

Welcome to the new Witchin’ in the Kitchen! This blog just celebrated its fourth anniversary this summer, and it felt time for a change. Aside from a new look and feel, I hope that the new design makes it easier for you to discover seasonal recipes, preservation tips, herbal medicine techniques, and inspiration from some of my […]

blackberry zig zag pie

blackberry zig zag pie

Mollie Katzen was at Sixth and I synagogue talking about her latest cookbook, The Heart of the Plate, tonight. With her groundbreaking hand-drawn Moosewood Cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, Mollie was truly a pioneer for transforming the dinner plate and putting vegetables in the limelight, rather than the conventional serving of meat. During this golden age of […]

fermented dill pickles

lacto-fermented dill pickles

This isn’t a recipe for sweet bread and butter pickles that you pile onto your summer burger. These pickles are something quite different. These pickles are alive. Lacto-fermented for a week in brine heavily seasoned with garlic and flowering dill, simple Kirby cucumbers transform into crisp, sour pickles, filled with beneficial bacteria that improve digestion and […]

crema de guacamole

crema de guacamole with totopos

As I sit writing this post early on Sunday morning, I’m preparing to can cherries, pickled beets, and purple raspberry jam. And if you follow me on Instagram-a-land, you’ll know that my canning obsession doesn’t stop there. Subsequently, most of my posts of late have been solely focused on canning and putting up, undoubtedly leaving […]