Jun. 28, 2021
Cooking In Season
Salad Meals to Beat the Heat
In this recipe round up, I have gathered my best and most delicious summer salad meal recipes in one post, for days when it’s too hot to cook!
In my personal opinion, kumquat marmalade is the best of all marmalades. Delicious perfume, aroma, and flavour, with a slight bitter / tart edge, and a beautiful bright colour!
This post has been sponsored by Rancho Vignola.
Many, many years ago, when I was first learning to make jam and preserves, I saw a basket of kumquats in the produce market near where I lived. Always willing to try a new food, I bought the crazy little fruits; later that day I made marmalade with them.
I remember that the kumquats were finicky to deal with, and that I hadn’t bought enough to make the quantity of marmalade that I had hoped for. But I also remember that it was the BEST marmalade I had ever tasted.
Kumquat marmalade was very aromatic, only slightly bitter, a perfect balance of tart and sweet, with an incomparable flavour. Much like quince, the labour of dealing with the fruit is well worth it. The jars were eaten up in no time, on toast, on ice cream, by the spoonful…
It was at least a decade before I found both kumquats and the time to make their finicky marmalade again. I’m thankful that this dark age of kumquat-marmalade deprivation has passed for me. It was very hard to live without; kumquat marmalade is really that good. I would venture to call it the gateway marmalade: sophisticated enough for the marmalade lover, but mild enough for a marmalade fearer.
If you want to make this recipe (worth it, I promise!) know that you will spend much time on slicing these tiny fruits and picking out their multitudinous seeds. However, once that is done, the rest is very easy. By the way, if you want the biscuit recipe (look at that beauty in the photo!) I use the one from my strawberry shortcake blog post.
I found kumquats in abundance this year at The Root Cellar, and at Fisgard Market in Chinatown. I am sure they are available elsewhere, too.
This kumquat marmalade is SO GOOD. Delicious perfume, aroma, and flavour, with a slight bitter / tart edge, and a beautiful bright colour! In my personal opinion, kumquat marmalade is the best of all marmalades. Definitely worth the extra labour involved with cutting these tiny, seedy fruits.
Jun. 28, 2021
In this recipe round up, I have gathered my best and most delicious summer salad meal recipes in one post, for days when it’s too hot to cook!
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It has been too long since I have done one of your classes Heidi. (Small children will do that!) I need some of your insipiratiin.
I’m glad you included the photos of kumquats. I’ve always wondered about them…….
Thanks for the suggestion of uses for them.
Definitely plan to try this marmalade recipe. Please enter me in the draw.
The marmalade sounds super yummy. Please enter me in the draw.
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I will be buying kumquat marmalade this week.
Please draw my name for Saturday’s class. I would love to attend.
Looks like another stellar recipe, Heidi!
Thanks for entering me in the half-price cooking class draw.
The marmalade recipe sounds yummy. Please add me to your draw.
That looks delicious! Please enter me in the draw. thx
Yaaay. I’ve been anticipating this post since your Instagram pic. Kumquat marmalade sounds amazing. Pretty excited to try it (even if I only manage to deseed one jars worth haha).
I know what you mean, Ingmarie! 🙂 When I was in the middle of prepping all the kumquats, I was cursing myself for having bought so many. But now that I have 8 jars (er, I guess only 6 now!) I’m really glad I bought so many.
Please enter me in the draw. I love the soba noodles recipe!