Canning Green Pepper Jelly

Canning Green Pepper Jelly

Months before I decided to get serious with the food blog, I was on a full-bore canning YouTube binge. I was watching all sorts of canning methods, recipes and techniques. There’s a lot to canning, but it’s also relatively simple.  So canning green pepper jelly was going to be easy, right? Right. Canning green pepper…

Chopped Ham

Easter Leftovers

My father-in-law called me and said that if we wanted to have dinner at his house on Easter, he left a $20 on the kitchen counter. If I’d like to cook a ham dinner, he said he’d buy the ham. I took him up on the offer and went to the store to buy sides…

Home-Cured Pancetta

Home-Cured Pancetta

I had planned to make a series of blog posts about my experiments with home cured and pickled foods, but like most things I never got around to it. For Christmas dinner, my father-in-law bought a pork belly that I halved and made into a Porchetta, which turned out amazing! I had planned on making a…