fruit spread

Orange Marmalade Spread
I never liked orange marmalade, until I made it myself. And to be clear, no, orange marmalade is not simply orange jam. Nor does the homemade version look nearly as scary as those little square packets that came with your hotel room service back in the 70s. But what is marmalade exactly and what makes […]

Christmas Jam
Apparently, Christmas jam is a thing. As a chef and a food blogger, I had no clue. This is a fine example of the food world today, chances are, the idea (recipe) is out there long before you came up with the recipe, and the only hope is you make it better. Jam is something […]

Fresh Fig Spread
Oh boy do I love figs, always have. Fig Newtons (now called simply Newtons) in my lunch box as a kid was a favorite. I don’t think I encountered a fresh fig until I was in my mid-20s. But, no surprise, I liked them right away. Figs are native to the Middle East and western Asia […]

Apricot Quick Jam
I don’t typically crave jam. But in the summer, with delicious ripe fruit and berries, it’s more appealing. Right before traveling to Europe, our entire apricot tree ripened at once. Totally serious, the whole tree! I made some coconut-apricot bars using my raspberry-coconut oatmeal bar recipe if you check out my Instagram feed you will see […]

Fresh Blueberry Quick Jam
Fresh blueberries always remind me of summer. Well, that and the well-known children’s book “Blueberries for Sal” by Robert McCloskey, which I must have read to my boys 1,000 times when they were little. Blueberries are a wonderful, tasty summer fruit. Loaded with fiber, potassium, iron, vitamin C, and vitamin B6, they are believed to […]