This weekend I am running 3 miles/5km in the Port Dalhousie Chocolate Race »

This recipe is triple berry using blueberries, raspberries and strawberries – all of which are in season right now! I am all jammed out so maybe next year »

I find these natural recipes are much darker than the boxed-pectin method, probably from the cooked sugar, but I think I’ll continue trying this type of method »

An on-campus farmer’s market will debut at McMaster today »

This artisan cherry jam uses a volume ratio to determine how much sugar should be added and uses lemon for pectic »

This is a boil method recipe to jell the sugar and uses lemon as a natural pectin source »

My family and I love roasted red pepper humus but I thought this would be a good alternative for the store bought spreads we sometimes buy, which are heavily in oils »

Turns out the USDA put out a PDF guide to safe methods for home canning »

Since I am laden with tomatoes, I thought it best to post this one too. I just proves that every recipe is totally different on the web. This one is from Ball, the jar company. I claims to makes 7 pints, but the batch I made on Saturday (and posted earlier this morning) called for [...]

I decided to try a simpler sauce (i.e. shorter processing time). This one is tomato, onion, garlic and herbs; I separately roasted and froze chunks of red pepper to add when I open the jar to heat the sauce »