All posts tagged: fruit

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 […]

rhubarb cordial

rhubarb vanilla cordial

Happy weekend! Here is a recipe for the springiest of springtime recipes, rhubarb vanilla cordial. I shared this illustration last year on The Great Kosmic Kitchen blog, but thought it worth revisiting with the warming sun and coming new moon upon us. Enjoy!

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 […]

blueberry plum galette

plum and blueberry galette

The last unofficial weekend of summer was spent with my family on Chincoteague Island, a tiny barrier island off the coast of Virginia. The sun was hot and the ocean water was cold. We made a big peach pie using my friend Kari‘s secret recipe. Ate fresh littleneck clams by the handful. Went for late […]

blackberry picking

late summer blackberry jam

I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my […]

strawberry jam

sexy strawberry jam

I remember my mom making jars upon jars of strawberry preserves when I was a kid. The preserves would be dark and sweet, and there seemed to be an endless supply always stocked in our basement. She didn’t use any other jam for our pb&j’s – only these preserves would do. As an adult, I […]

limoncello

limoncello

When I began brewing limoncello, the trees were still barren and we were thirsting for the first glimmer of spring. I’d gathered an armful of the last meyer lemons of the winter in a large bowl in my living room, without any definitive ideas for how to use them. But I’d also picked up a […]

mango chutney

mango chutney

As I write this blog post, I’m waiting for Indian food to be delivered. This might sound strange to most people, but for me, ordering take-out is a luxury. Food at restaurants costs a lot more than making food at home, and D.C. is especially bereft of affordable dining options. By “affordable,” I mean a […]