Giveaway: Preserving by the Pint by Marisa McClellan
Friday, April 11, 2014 at 8:00AM
My friend Marisa’s new book is such a treasure!
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All the recipes are based on a single pint, quart, or pound of produce, which is surely a structure after my own heart these days. I’ve noticed my larger canning projects are fewer throughout the year because I’m now focusing on canning (or fermenting) our actual garden harvest excess. I’m just not going out and buying larger volumes of fruits and veggies for other canning. But my fridge is still full of super-small batches of things because lack of volume doesn’t mean you must go entirely without.
Food in Jars blogger Marisa offers delicious recipes for preserving food seasonally via numerous methods, vinegar pickling, fermenting, jamming, herb salts, and other practical and immediate uses (like tomato sauce, pestos, syrups, and lots more).
I hope you’ll check out this book as you venture forward with your prized quarts, pints, and pounds of fruit and veggies. Here are a couple recipes I’m particularly excited to try.
Fava beans: ours are ready for harvest with a plethora of parsley (thanks spring rains) and this pesto sounds like a wonderful way to use them.
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Figs: I will certainly be using my foraged summer figs to make a jar of these. Fig Manhattans anyone?
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Reader Comments (73)
I don't currently have a real garden but have a tiny herb one on my patio (until I can get in a house with a back yard again). I am definitely looking for small jar ideas since my space is limited and I don't have a bounty of my own. Since I live in Austin, many things are coming into season now - including strawberries! Hope to find some good small recipes for those. Also always looking for good fermenting recipes as this has become one of my favorite types of food - thanks in no small part to Kate!
I need this book. Really want to get started canning. Peppers are big around here in WV.
Rhubarb is coming into season here and I'd love to find a unique recipe for it!
With spring finally here, I can't wait to start hitting the farmer's markets and preserving! During my pregnancy, my nesting instinct surfaced as jam making... Lol
I would love a copy of this book. Summer is just around the corner and I'd love to can some of the veggies from the garden.
Nothing really in season yet here in Wisconsin, but hoping to get some planting done soon.
I am new the area I am in & don't know, yet, what is in season now! Hard freeze in 2 nights so it will be a bit before I can plant tomatoes, though!
Just getting warm in my neck if the woods. Nothing read yet but would use the book to can my CSA produce!
I love Food in Jars!
Everything is taunting me with its fresh green leaves while all I can do is day dream about carrots that are sprouting freshly planted tomatoes in a hoop house. Is it summer yet?
Here in California strawberry season is just beginning, so I'm always looking for new ways to preserve them.
With Father-in-Law's garlic (transplanted from PA) finally peeking through, I would love to try my hand at pickling them.
A few things in season in the southwest/California area right now are carrots, asparagus, artichokes, lemons, grapefruit, nettles, strawberries, cherries and lettuce. With this book I hope to learn more about preserving as I'm new to all this, I just got really excited about cooking about a month ago and I'm excited to learn new techniques!
The creative ideas in this book sound like a kick in the pants for me to try some new foods. I have always shied away from fave beans, but that pesto sounds tasty.
Hard to find figs around here. But Marisa knows where it's at - whiskey preserves! Be still my heart.
All I've got so far is snow pea shoots, garlic, some chard and mustard seedlings. Basil seedlings still indoors, but once we start the basil harvest, we want to put up pesto.
We don't have much in season right now here in upstate ny! But when I get some gorgeous cucumbers, I plan to dill pickle the heck out of them!
We have u-pick strawberries... and I am making a variety of jams. Also beets, pickled some for the first time last night.
There's not much in season right now in eastern PA & southern NJ except rhubarb, but I'm looking forward to berries & stone fruits as the summer season gets closer!
We are having a really weird spring here! Snow in March and another light frost this week. We are enjoying greens, onions, peas, carrots, but not much else yet.
I would love to have this book because I love to "put things up" while I'm at my farmhouse on Lookout Mtn. in July. I need to learn more about it and this would be a wonderful source!
Thanks for the giveaway! Nothing here so far, but ramps should be starting to come up, & some early herbs & spring greens
I don't think much is in season yet here, but I am looking forward to canning tomatoes in the summer.
There a re a few items that are in season at the moment; Artichokes, beets, carrots, chard & other greens,Fava beans as well as strawberries.
Hope to do more canning this year.
Thank you for this giveaway opportunity
Asparagus is in season now and I am eating it every other day....yum!
I'd like to use the book for a recipe to preserve some if there is one or maybe try something new..thanks!
Strawberries are coming into season here, and I would love to make some jam. I think there is a whole strawberries recipe in Marisa's book that I'd love to try. Thank you for the chance to win!