Posted in AnnArbor.com on October 6, 2010
This past Saturday was the 12th Annual Jam Contest and Public Tasting at Downtown Home & Garden. This Saturday, Oct. 9, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. is the “2nd Annual Pickle Contest & Public Tasting.” For a business with a storefront that has graced Ashley for more than 120 years, the jam and pickle [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Farm to Fork, Growing Goodies, Health on September 12, 2010
Last winter I received Mary Bell’s Food Drying with an Attitude: A Fun and Fabulous Guide to Creating Snacks, Meals, and Crafts – and I put it aside because I did not have a dehydrator. Like last year, I started this season with drying tomatoes in my oven, but the tomatoes take two full days [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Health, Recipes, Vision on July 21, 2010
As our household creeps toward food self-sufficiency, you would think our decision to keep backyard chickens would incite more concern than canning fruits and vegetables. However, botulism is a big word and scenes from Louisa May Alcott books where women in full-length wool dresses sweat over a hot stove in the middle of August stirring [...]
