Preserved in 2012
Jan. 8th, 2013 09:26 amAll produce is organic and local unless otherwise noted (* for nonorganic, ^ for nonlocal). Vinegar, sugar, spices, salt, and such are not organic. Not included: most things frozen for later (used much more this year, including hot peppers, rhubarb, blueberries, sauteed winter squash, home-dried unsweetened cranberries, and more, in addition to things like soup and soup stock), or batches of fridge pickles.
(For comparison, 2011, 2010, and 2009.)
(For comparison, 2011, 2010, and 2009.)
- 1/2012 about half a liter of orange^-coffee liqueur (this coffee)
- 1/2012 about half a liter of tangelo^-mocha liqueur (same coffee beans as above, also Taza cocoa nibs)
- 1/2012 about half a liter of orange-coffee cherry liqueur (the fruit of the coffee fruit, not coffee and cherries)
- 3/29/2012 nine half-pints and two minis of boozy mocha marmalade
- 5/8/2012 two 1.75-liter bottles of ginger liqueur
- 6/6/2012 almost a quart of rhubarb liqueur
- 6/7/2012 six pints of rhubarb chutney (riffed off this recipe)
- 6/21/2012 about a liter of orange-coffee cherry*^ liqueur
- 7/6/20.12 about a pint of mulberry liqueur
- 8/3/2012 three pints of pickled crab apples
- 8/3/2012 a pint and three half-pints of blueberry jam
- 8/x/2012 about a pint and a half of blueberry liqueur
- 8/20/2012 four pints of sweet carrot pickles with cinnamon and slices of lemon^
- 8/24/2012 two pints of Roma tomatoes in their own juice
- 8/27/2012 five pints of Roma tomatoes in their own juice
- 9/2/2012 one pint mild tomatillo salsa
- 9/5/2012 three pints mild tomato-pepper salsa (page 6 in this PDF of tomato salsa recipes)
- 9/5/2012 six pints of nectarine-tomato salsa (using nectarines instead of peaches in this recipe)
- 9/19/2012 four pints of Ginger gold applesauce
- 9/20/2012 one pint of Scotch bonnet liqueur
- 10/16/2012 three pints of marinated roasted peppers
- 10/1/2012 five pints of Mutsu applesauce
- 11/22/2012 six pints of Brock applesauce
- 11/27/2012 three half-pints of cinnamon pickled lemons^ (with some honey, but not enough to be sweet pickles) [which I have since tasted, and must make more of!]
- 11/29/2012 five pints of mostly-cranberry jam (with an apple, an orange, and a lemon^, plus some extra lemon juice)
- 12/26/2012 four pints of cranberry-ginger jam