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)
Well, in Minnesota there's not anything growing this April. But soon there should be rhubarb and asparagus! I think I'd love to try a pickled rhubarb or rhubarb compote of some sort.
I'm in upstate New York, so nothing is in season yet! I'm looking forward to the first shoots of asparagus and the first sweet, tiny strawberries.
I just started canning, but we live in an apartment in DC, so it's been small batches! I was very excited to see this book come out! I love Foodinjars!
This is a wonderful book. I'd love to win a copy for my sister. Thanks.
Kale and other greens are finally appearing the markets alongside the root veg and apples from last season, hurray! I'm looking forward to exploring Marisa's ideas for other kinds of preserving - freezing, fermenting, pickling... bring it on!
Locally there are some spring foods coming into season like asparagus. Mostly though I'm just tearing out the old overgrown garden around my new house so hopefully next year I'll be able to have a full vegetable garden. This year my husband and I are relying on a local CSA for our produce, which would make this book an absolutely amazing resource!
seasonally now is.foraged mushrooms and wild greens...bonus hen eggs and ducks to boot!!
We don't really have anything this season yet, but I've got lettuce coming up, hopefully it will survive the snow we just had.
January - April seems to be season of cleaning out the pantry as I look to reclaim all those used jars. Been loving last summer's peaches and bread and butter pickles these past few months!
geez, nothing here yet really. Some green beans I guess. Unfortunately it had gotten up to a surprise 78 degrees on Saturday, then showed on Monday, so yeah...
Can't wait to be able to can again! Watching for the asparagus and rhubarb to come up.
I live in Oregon and we have lettuce, fennel , rhubarb and beets available now
Nothing local is in season here yet....we had snow yesterday! I've followed the FIJ blog for quite awhile and always enjoy Marisa's recipes.
Record cold spring. Three inches of snow yesterday but Spinach and Mache' held over from winter crops and ready to harvest. Rhubabrb and Sorrel
poppoing out of the groung
I made the pickled strawberries. Haven't done anything with them besides eating them straight out of the jar yet, but they're delicious!
Not much yet (just greens), but I canned strawberries last year, and I'm pretty sure I need to pick twice as many this time around!
Here in Downeast Maine, there's really nothing I know of in season right now. My chives have just begun poking through the ground, and we had snow overnight. I'm looking forward to strawberry season, though, and hope to make some unusual strawberry preserves (balsamic? vanilla?).
Not much in season, but maybe rhubarb jam!
Mangoes are abundant, but I might still be hung up on pickling carrots!
Not much is in season here yet, but the recent sunshine has me hopeful. I shy away from so many canning projects because of the time/amount of produce needed; this would be so helpful!
there is actually nothing "in season" right now where I am but we are approaching rhubarb season - the best! does she have any recipes for that?
This seems so sad. But the snow still covers most of my garden so right now... Nothing is in season. I did see a Sandhill crane in the backyard though today. So Spring is on it's way.
Strawberries! I cant wait for strawberry vanilla jam!!