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Easy 1 Hour Homemade Mincemeat Recipe – Traditional Christmas Flavor!

December 4, 2022 by Faith 1 Comment

This easy homemade Christmas mincemeat recipe is richly spiced, full of fruit, laced with brandy, and made without meat. It’s the perfect vegetarian mincemeat filling for making into festive Christmas mince pies and tarts.

My grandmother on my mom’s side made mince pie every year at Christmas.

As a kid who was more familiar with apple, cherry, coconut cream, and even lemon meringue pies, I was curious. One year when I was old enough to remember, I inhaled the heavily-spiced interior that looked like no other pie filling I’d ever seen. A ton of burning questions swirled through my head.

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Sugar Free Strawberry Jam Recipe

May 13, 2019 by Faith 10 Comments

Sugar Free Strawberry Jam has just the right amount of sweetness and comes together in just 20 minutes! Use local strawberries in season (or local strawberries that have been flash-frozen) for the most intensely-flavored jam. Growing up in Buffalo, strawberry season was usually right around the third week of June. My sister and I looked forward to strawberry picking with mom every year! It’s one of those things where instinct sort-of takes over. You’re in a field of deliciously ripe strawberries; you’ve already picked a flat of strawberries (when you only meant to pick half a flat); and yet you just can’t stop picking, lol....

Small Batch Easy Blueberry Jam with Ginger and Lemon

August 28, 2018 by Faith Leave a Comment

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #TeaProudly #TeaProbiotics #CollectiveBias Small Batch Easy Blueberry Jam with Ginger and Lemon is a delicious no-added-sugar alternative to sugary store-bought jams, and bonus, it whips up in just 20 minutes! I’m a coffee drinker in the morning, but for a mid-afternoon break, tea is typically my go-to. This routine is very soothing; I find the whole process of picking a flavor and steeping tea relaxing. Paired with toast topped with cottage cheese, Small Batch Easy Blueberry Jam with Ginger and Lemon, fresh mint, and a little lemon zest, your […]...

Vanilla Mango Preserves

June 10, 2016 by Faith 7 Comments

This Vanilla Mango Preserves recipe takes just an hour to make; it’s a delicious tropical twist on your favorite fruity jam and a great way to spiffy up your morning toast. So apparently mangos are like zucchini. When they’re in season, anyone with a tree will do just about anything to use them up. A friend of ours dropped off two pretty big boxes of mangos in less than a week, knowing they’re one of my favorites. It was such a sweet gesture that left us eating mangos hand-over-fist, and yet we still weren’t able to keep up with those mangos....

Vanilla-Scented Peach Jam

August 17, 2015 by Faith 14 Comments

Preserve the essence of summer with Vanilla-Scented Peach Jam…the perfect topping for your morning toast, yogurt, or oatmeal. Peach jam always reminds me of August. Days are still hot, but nights start to cool off a little; summer begins to wind down and it’s time to start thinking of ways to preserve its bounty. Enter peach jam....

Concord Grape Jam

October 30, 2011 by Faith 15 Comments

This is part two (here’s part one) of what I did with my Concord grapes, and I wanted to get this recipe posted before Concord season is too much of a distant memory. Eating this jam makes me wish for a jar of homemade roasted peanut butter and a loaf of fresh baked sourdough bread. PB&J with a grown-up flair…and I’d be one happy girl. Instead, I found some fresh rosemary bread at my local grocery store (thank you, Wegmans, for having a fantastic in-store bakery!) which was a lovely pairing with the jam....

Rose Petal Jelly

June 17, 2011 by Faith 66 Comments

Last February on a whim I bought two pounds of dried rose petals. (In my defense they were practically a steal at less than $7 a pound…with free shipping!) Valentine’s Day was approaching and I had high hopes for them, with ideas like heart-shaped rose petal tea cakes, white chocolate rose petal mousse, rose petal sorbet, and rose petal punch dancing around my head. Since I posted no such recipes here, you can probably see where I’m going with this. :)...

Orange Curd

May 31, 2011 by Faith 55 Comments

So, remember when I talked about Mike’s breakfast phases? He blew through apples, smoothies, oatmeal, and high fiber cereal. And now he’s taken on oranges. I think this is his longest breakfast obsession though, since it actually started last winter before we left for vacation. (I’m just shocked that we’ve been able to get good quality oranges so late in the year! Usually by mid-April or so they lose their sweet, seductively delicious quality.)...

Chocolate Giveaway & Recipe for Warm-Spiced Cranberry Jam

October 22, 2010 by Faith 56 Comments

With holiday feasts just around the corner, cranberry recipes are abundant. When I made this jam I didn’t have turkey dinner in mind; I was actually thinking more along the lines of breakfast. I wanted something festive and fall-like to spread on toast or stir into a bowl of oats or yogurt. I’ve been using this sweet/tart jam as a breakfast accompaniment, but of course it would also fantastic as part of a turkey meal. When I first started my Halloween Candy-Making Event I promised a chocolate-related giveaway. I wanted do something different with this giveaway, so I thought a little contest would be fun. Another […]...

Cherry Jam

July 13, 2010 by Faith 37 Comments

If you find yourself wondering what to do with so many cherries before their short-lived season is over, jam is the perfect answer – it lets you extend cherry season! Mike and I generally don’t eat a lot of jam, so the 3 cups that I made with this recipe will probably last us at least 6 months in the fridge. If you prefer, you can make a bigger batch and preserve the jam through canning. Instead of using a box of store-bought pectin to gel my jam I wanted to make (or rather, extract) pectin from scratch for a couple reasons. I had heard that […]...

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