Food waste
Using up preserves, part 3: Salsa!
It’s rare that I don’t make a couple of batches of homemade salsa duringthe tomato season: for me, it is the most versatile and flavourful ofcondiments and can be used as the basis for many meals. Still, I often endup with half-eaten jars of mild and medium salsa competing for fridge spacewith the BBQ sauce…
Read MoreUsing up preserves, part 1
This month, I am giving thought to all the annoying half-filled jars ofpreserves that haunt my fridge door (and maybe yours, too). Orphaned jarsof jams, relishes, pickles… what’s a cook to do with them? Let’s start with jam! I am guilty of opening several flavours of jam at once because MOODS… Thismeans an unruly crowd…
Read MoreThe Joy of Grease: How to make soap out of what’s sitting in that soup can on the back of your stove
There’s a tin can on our kitchen counter that no one goes near, filled with congealed bacon grease. It’s been collecting for months, and I really don’t know what to do with it. Except I DO know and just haven’t gotten around to trying what everyone alive in any century prior to ours would have done: make soap from scratch.
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