Jams & Compotes Archives | Kale & Caramel

APRICOT ROSE SUMMER FRUIT FANTASIA DESSERT PLATTER.

This post was created in partnership with Bonne Maman. All opinions are my own, including my obsession with Bonne Maman’s beautiful, traditionally made preserves and fruit spreads. I’m writing to you from a cool nook in my house—a perch on my bed where the…
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SAGE PLUM JAM ADVENTURE!

Every time I think I’ve had it with LA, the city reveals some new side of itself I can’t turn my back on. So it was with this plum jam adventure—my friends Serena and Heather and I had been planning…
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LATE SUMMER FRUIT COMPOTE YOGURT BOWLS WITH OLIVE OIL GRANOLA.

My Aunt Wendy is a poet and a private investigator. When I was young, our time together mostly consisted of giggling loudly and uncontrollably in completely inappropriate places: staid country club lounges in South Bend, Indiana, formal dinner parties, otherwise stilted…
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WHITE PEACH & SAGE JAM.

On one of my father’s first visits to Los Angeles, I took him up to TreePeople, an urban forest in Coldwater Canyon. Neither of us had been before, and we quickly took to the trails, scurrying up hillsides to…
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EMILY DICKINSON’S RED WINE PLUM COMPOTE WITH CHAMOMILE VANILLA BEAN CREAM | ONE WEEK IN AMHERST.

We drove up from New York, past the river, past the old neighborhoods that used to be rich, past the forests. We drove to Massachusetts, a car full of strangers eating yogurt-covered snacks and sharing leftover potato salad. We got…
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LATE SUMMER STONE FRUIT COMPOTE.

One last fling before the summer disappears. One last sticky-sweet immersion into the sexy roundness of the season’s best fruit. Bruised. Overripe. Molded, even. All of it can be salvaged, rediscovered, renewed with the magic touches of lemon and sugar…
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STRAWBERRY RHUBARB COMPOTE PARFAITS WITH MEYER LEMON & PISTACHIO.

It was supposed to be a small but mighty jazz club—a tiny door in the back corner of a mall in the middle of Little Tokyo. But the music, a trio of percussion, piano, and cello, was transcendent. It was…
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PEANUT BUTTER & STRAWBERRY JAM THUMBPRINT COOKIES.

There is so much to say about this down-home, comforting, mmm-inducing, sweet-savory melding gem of a cookie that I hardly know where to start. I’ll begin at the beginning: I discovered the peanut butter and jam thumbprint cookie one summer…
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FENNEL SEEDED CHALLAH WITH SPICED APPLE BUTTER.

My friend Suzanne is basically Martha Stewart. She hosts gorgeous dinner parties in her lovely fig- and plumeria tree lined courtyard, evenings filled with the sweetness of climbing vines and the whisper of a small fountain. The woman owns both…
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