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  • Carrot Cake Jam

    Carrot Cake Jam

    My Ph.D. exams are over, and now I have a desperate need to ground myself in the experience of my everyday life again. Exams, for instance, require that all attention is paid to the content of study. I have a hard time balancing that impulse...

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  • Basil Banana Pepper Jelly & Mustard Peach-Glazed Pork Chops

    Basil Banana Pepper Jelly & Mustard Peach-Glazed Pork Chops

    Jelly… I think of toast. Peanut butter. Pastries. Not last night. Think pork. Onions. Mustard. Maybe this is old hat to you, but for me, this was an adventure. I tried two recipes, actually. Peach-Glazed Pork Chops. Basil Banana Pepper Jelly. Incredible. I had a...

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  • I’ll just call it syrup.

    I’ll just call it syrup.

    Picked up one of my jars of Mocha Cherry jam this morning, and it was… um… runny. I told you I was a rookie at this stuff. Luckily, it looks like it only happened to one of the two batches. I’m pretty sure I didn’t...

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