I am a newbie to jams, jellies and preserves.  I know there are technical differences between the three.  I’ve shied away from making full blown jellies and jams because of all of the sugar involved.  I try to keep the sugar down in my recipes and combining equal parts of fruit and sugar just seemed, [...]

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I am a huge fan of hot chocolate, chocolate milk, and chocolate sauce on ice cream.  Over time though, I realized that a lot of the syrups and cocoa mixes tasted more sugary and less chocolaty.   I decided that I could change that!  So I started making my own chocolate syrup.  It’s really easy and [...]

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A few years back, I began reading labels and realized how much other “stuff” is in processed foods, including sauces.  So I began making our marinara that we use for pasta sauce, pizza sauce and anywhere else you’d use a jar of spaghetti sauce.  While often the batches of sauce will have some variation, this [...]

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