You guys! For real! Listen to this song while you stir this simmering jam. I promise that the combination of this song, the stirring, and the color of this jam that everything will be ok. Do yourself a favor and make some biscuits for with it. You’ll probably sit down to breakfast and eat two with your brie and mushroom scramble. You’ll probably eat one more afterword for dessert. You might turn one into a watermelon slice…
This coffeecake has nutmeg in it making it taste like a donut. And it can count as a breakfast, mid-afternoon snack, or even a first dinner. It calls for strawberry jam, and so I whipped up my favorite strawberry freezer jam with a vanilla bean for good measure. And, I have to say, that this stuff was super hard to photograph… solely because I wanted to eat it so badly! I gobbled up two slices…
Because sometimes you want to drink the season! You see, this drink is sweet with pear infused vodka and vanilla bean pear jam. It has a splash of ginger liquor for spice and a bit of soda for bubbliness. Top it with a sprig of rosemary and a sliver of pear to keep things festive. I’d say it’s the perfect drink for holiday living. You see, using jam in leu of a simple syrup is…
I love goat cheese. I’d like it to be my Valentine. I love it in crepes, on pizza, on quesadillas, and now in a tart. I was impatient about this already easy-breezy-speedy tart. It came together in about 30 minutes and then I only chilled it for 20 minutes before slicing (instead of the recommended 2 hours). … the crust was a bit crumbly. It didn’t ruin anything though. Jake didn’t judge it. (I maybe…
I like that this cake kinda looks like a super huge stack of pancakes. I like that there’s strawberry jam keeping it real between six layers of sugar cookie-esque goodness. I like that at the end I get to dust it with powdered sugar. I really like the dusting with powdered sugar part. It maybe doesn’t look like it here, but those guys are the same size. I weighed them all on my tiny scale…
I really need to quit using my skirt as an apron. At least when I made this stuff I remembered to wear a black skirt instead of that gray one. Mashing these berries can be splashy. Just make sure you don’t wear white, ok? I love freezer jam. It comes together quickly and lasts through the snow. I can’t wait to top crepes with this stuff, fill muffins with it and eat it on toast.…
I like to incorporate food into my job as much as possible. Does it make you want toast? It should make you want toast. That jam up there was made by yours truly, and my grandma gave me a bunch of vintage jelly jars that I was dying to fill with strawberry jam and summer-love. Summer 2010 // Detroit Home magazine Styling by Me Photograph by CJ Benninger
These muffins are low-fat, I guess. But mostly they are necessary. They are necessary when you’re starving and it’s almost 8 and there is no dinner in the oven. Then you’ll need one of these muffins. You won’t be able to fight it. It’s either this or the tortilla chip crumbs that are in the bag on top of the fridge. What? You don’t eat muffins when you are hungry at 8pm? Why not? These…