Posts by Marisa

Marisa McClellan is a food writer, canning teacher, and dedicated farmers' market shopper who lives in Philadelphia, PA. She shares her many canning projects (all cooked up in her 80 square foot kitchen) at Food in Jars. Her first cookbook will be published by Running Press in March 2012.

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Creamy Orange Cardamom Curd Recipe

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Written by Marisa of Food in Jars. I was born in Southern California and spent my first nine years living in a little town called Eagle Rock. We had guava trees in the front yard and towering palm trees in the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the curb. Nearby, my grandmother grew Meyer lemons [...]

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Small Batch Pear Cranberry Compote

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Written by Marisa of Food in Jars. By the time November rolls around, the abundance of summer is well behind us. No more mountains of peaches and plums at the farmers’ markets, just pumpkins, potatoes and hearty greens. It’s enough to make a preserver hang up her canning pot until spring. However, I’ve found that [...]

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Honey-Sweetened Apricot Lavender Butter

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Written by Marisa of Food in Jars. As a canner, I feel obligated not to play favorites when it comes to fruit. How can you possibly prefer strawberries to cherries, or like peaches more than cantaloupe? Every variety of fruit has its individual charms and each deserves its moment in the seasonal spotlight. However, there [...]

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For the Love of Small Batch Canning (Recipe: Spiced Plum Jam)

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Written by Marisa of Food in Jars. Plum jam tastes like childhood to me. When I was very young, my family lived in a house with three Santa Rosa plum trees scattered around the yard and every other year, we spent three weeks wading through a sea of plums. We’d eat them until we couldn’t [...]

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Preserving Autumn: Marisa’s Apple Butter Method

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Written by Marisa McClellan of Food in Jars. In recent years, apple and pear butters have become integral parts of my fall. I spoon pear butter into my morning yogurt and spread apple butter on toast (often atop a primary layer of peanut butter). They are sweet, fairly healthy (as fruit spreads go) and I [...]

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