Fruit Butter Cooked the Old-fashioned Way

July 5, 2011 by Food-Critic  
Filed under Food

Fruit butter is a spread similar to jelly and jam. It is a sweet spread made of fruit cooked to a paste then lightly sweetened. The cooking process should be slow to avoid burning the fruit. If properly processed the result is a spread that has the same texture as regular butter. It is one [...]

Pumpkin Spread

August 26, 2010 by Food-Critic  
Filed under Healthy

As a child I hated eating vegetables. My parents could not get me to eat vegetables at all. As I got older I learned to eat carrots, lettuce and cabbage. I would eat them in my salad or in my soup. I found out that if I mixed pumpkin with vegetables, they tasted great. Today [...]