Links: Winter Baking, More Citrus, and a Winner

My husband turned 38 on Saturday, and so we spent most of the last three days celebrating in a very lovely, low-key way. I blew off doing any work on Friday and we went on a mission to find a new love seat (we bought one two years ago from Pottery Barn and it is falling to pieces. Most disappointing). The next day, I made a big dinner and Scott’s mom came over. We ate ourselves silly, watched a movie and then went on a late night adventure through the snowfall to Whole Foods. Sunday, we sat under blankets and binge-watched season three of Veronica Mars (it is my current obsession). It was a truly delightful weekend and I’m sad to see it end.

More marmalade, this time with Sweeties, a grapefruit-pomelo hybrid.
Buttermilk tangelo scones.
Yeasted banana bread.
Lemon caramel sauce (there’s a recipe like this one in Preserving by the Pint, as well).
There’s no easily extracted summary line for this blog post, but it’s mostly about family, food, and homemade soup. You should read it.
Brownies with swirls of strawberry jam.
Bacon jam. I keep meaning to try making a batch of this stuff!
Pickled pintos, corn, and poblanos (book mark this one for late next summer).
How to reprocess jams and jellies, from an expert.
On taking a freezer inventory (this would work equally well for a pantry of preserves).

As always, so many thanks to all of you who took the time to enter the Worker B giveaway last week. The winner is long time commenter, first time winner Tammy B. (#210). For all of you who didn’t win, don’t forget that the Rescue Putty is 20% off through the end of this month.

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