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Condiments & Jams
Fresh condiments & jams do not even resemble their supermarket versions. Our resources make their products with the real stuff as if you made it in your kitchen. To savor the flavors of real jam or terrific salsas & relishes, etc without the work, click on the resources below. We also included wonderful homemade peanut butter sources because fresh jam and homemade peanut butter is one of life's greatest simple pleasures. We have a great list of honey resources, check our our honey email as well!
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Harvest Song - Artisanal preserves from Armenia. Silvia Tirakian wanted to be able to share the fresh, natural tastes of her childhood. Their preserves have no pectin, no preservative, all natural. Silvia personally inspects the fruit harvests! We discovered them at the Fancy Food Show '07 . They just introduced Plum, tasted like they were just picked!
Spoon - Melissa Chmelar strongly believes in fresh, local ingredients. Her cafe/catering business using only handpicked, seasonal produce from upstate NY. Now the entire county has access to a few of her creations! She is offering online wonderful jams and baking mixes. We sampled her blueberry jam. Yum - just blueberries and minimal sugar. So good on pancakes or added to yogurt.
Albemarle Farm - Farmstand jams from Kluge Estate vineyard/farm in VA. Unusal flavors, grapefruithoney, dulce de leche, kumquat, orange with cocoa bean and more.
Frog Hollow Farm - Chutneys/conserves made with their delicious ripe fruits, a truly wonderful resource.
Colorado Mountain Jams & Jelli - Made with organic fruits from their own organic orchards, all natural, very little sugar. Old fashion jam flavors & wine jellies.
Lou Lou's Garden - With a passion for the organic heirloom fruits, vegetables & herbs that are sustainably grown here in Northern California,their products are entirely hand-made in small batches and follow the seasons. Jams, chutneys, pickles, preserves.
Froehilch's - Homemade from local produce: jams, sauces, chutneys, salsas & preserved vegetables - signature item is their pickled green pear martini pickles!
Dundee Fruit - Pacific Northwest fruits & berries, homemade, all natural preserves, fruit in light syrups, fruit in brandy.
Three Brothers Farm - From the Romero's family farm in Louisiana their fresh ripe celeste figs are dried and then cooked with only pure fresh ingredients to produce Fig porto, whole fig preserves,fig conserve & fig/berry preserves & fig syrups.
CMB Sweets - Jams, locally grown seasonal fruits used, made in small batches. Organic when possible. no coloring / preservatives. Wonderful flavors; olallieberry, fig sesame,vanilla-pear, kiwi-lime.
Sarabeth's Kitchen - Award winning jams (famous for her orange-apricot jam).
Kathy Casey Dish D'Lish - Northwest chef's chutneys, spreads, seasonings, and sauces. We first wrote about her products on our visit to Pike Place Market (9/05 email). The site also includes recipes.
Clearbrook Farms - They only use Grade-A fruit to make their preserves, butters, fillings, and sauces. All fruit is grown by small, family-owned farms and the fruit is always the #1 ingredient. They also offer homemade tart shells.
Linn's Fruit Bin Farmstore - Specializing in the olallieberry jam.
June Taylor - The Still Room - Fruit conserves, fruit syrups, fruit butters, sour cherries, and Christmas cake (aka fruit cake).
Carol Hall's Hot Pepper Jelly - Hot pepper jelly/condiments.
Grandma Hoerners - Homemade, organic & natural applesauce (real slices of fruit), preserves, pie filling, fruit spreads.
Blackberry Patch - Fruit treats of the south; jams, sauces, syrups.
Robert Lambert - By award winning author/chef, unique artisan condiments. Preserved fruit, salt-preserved citrus, syrups, sauces. The chocolate sauces are incredible, the unique syrups are wonderful over cheese, yogurt, etc. Try the Black Grapes in Pinot Noir Syrup over pork - heaven!
Robert Lambert - By award winning author/chef, unique artisan condiments. Perserved fruit, salt-preserved citrus, syrups, sauces. The chocoalate sauces are incredible, the unique syrups are wonderful over cheese, yogurt, etc. Try the Black Grapes in Pinot Noir Syrup over pork - heaven!
Fischer & Wieser Foods - Over 50 varieties of jams, jellies.
Hampton Chutney - Althought they do not offer online ordering, their unique Indian inspired chutney's are worth picking up the phone.
Bittersweet Herb Farm - Jams, herbal oils, finishing sauces, herb spice packs - this is a Food411 find at a local craft fair!
http://www.dalmatiaimports.com - Fig Spread with Orange 2004 NASFT Gold Medal Winner oustanding jam, preserve, spread or sweet topping.
The Girl & The Fig - Fig Vinegars, jams, syrup, compotes.
Berkshire Berries - Handpicked berries for jams, syrups & fresh maple syrup.
Anderson's - Pure Maple syrup, Organic Pure Maple Syrup and Apple Syrup. Family run for over 80 years.....this syrup is delicious. Please do not use the maple flavored stuff in the markets - it does not even taste like the real thing. We loved their syrup - pure delicious maple flavor!
Mountain Fruit Company - Intense Fruit, very low sugar
jam. - Apricot jam made from a very old, organic Blenheim apricot tree in CA. They pick the fruit & preserve it the next day, this yields a jam that we have heard has developed a cult following.
Paulk Vineyards - Fresh picked grapes for sauces, jams, supplements.
Dorothys - Chokecherry, elderberry, and other exotic fruit jams.
Chukar Cherry Company - Fresh harvested bing cherry jam, sauces, chocolate, pie, cobbler fillings. We found them at the Seattle Pike Market.
Ritrovo - Real black truffle salt & artisan single flower honeys from the Tuscan coast & hill country to produce single flower honeys.
Volcano Island Honey - Organic Hawaiian white honey - a very unique & rare honey.
Ame's Farm - Varietal honeys. They keep 300 hives in 17 locations across Minnesota.. Origin of each jar of honey is searchable in their online database.
Laney Honey - Varietal honey unpasteurized, unfiltered & minimally processed. This is the only way to preserve the distinctive flavors, trace minerals, vitamins, & pollen grains found in honey.
Nelson Family Honey - Pure and unfiltered honey from CA.
The Hampton's Honey - Organic varietal honeys, creamed honey.
Bee Raw - 100% real, raw varietal honeys, available in 8-oz jars or beautiful samplesets that would make a unique gift.
The Killer Bee Guy - Killer bee honeys, butters, mustards.
Savannah Bee Co. - Award winning tupelo (and many other varieties) honey, beautiful packaging - perfect for gifts. Try their Savannah Bee Honeycomb, when you want your honey just the way the bees made it - each golden cell brims with the concentrated nectar of thousands of rare and remote Georgia flowers. Eat with wine and cheese, for a rare treat.
Beth's Farm Kitchen - Fruit jams and chutneys.
PB Loco - Pure bliss was the feeling as we tasted these wonderful varieties of gourmet peanut butter. They use only the best european chocolates and fruits when blending their 11 flavors. All are trans-fat free. The savory Asain Curry spice is a great recipe ingredient and the Jungle Banana makes your toast sing. We really can not pick one favorite!
Peanut Better - Gourmet flavored natural peanut butters; savory, sweet, mixed nut butters. Spread or use in many recipes. The savory butters are the standout here. They come with recipes -who knew PB could be used in so many ways!
Futters Nut Butters - Family owned business that offers a wide variety of high quality nut and seed butters. Made daily and packaged in glass jars. The ingredients are just nuts and seeds nothing more!
Peanutbutter & Co. - Handmade peanut butter in 6 flavors.
Style Peanut Spread - Each jar is handcrafted -a large variety of peanut & almond butter flavors. All natural ingredients.
Sable & Rosenfeld - Gourmet condiments.
Tulocay's Made in Napa Valley - What a find! Delicious homemade fruit condiments, dessert sauces, mustards, marinades, glazes, rubs , vinegars. Fresh flavors of the Napa Valley scream through these products. We were fortunate to taste them - these are products that will make eating at home delicious & easy.
Cool Beans - An all natural white bean dip (spread or condiment). 4 flavors, a great alternative to salsa for a healthy low fat dip, works well as a spread in wraps, as a change from hummus. A great concept from 2 brothers with a passion for food & cool beans, when a product is made with passion is shines through!
Jim Town - Fresh condiments such as chopped olive spread, fig & olive spread, artichokes spreads all fresh made in California.
Stonewall Kitchen - Condiments, jams, sauces, syrups, breakfast mixes, more.
Rick's Pickles NYC - Award winning pickles;bread and butter, kirby cucumbers, green beans.
NYC Pickle Guys - This is a barrel cured pickle. The pickles are made by letting them sit in salt brine with garlic, spices, no preservatives. New pickles, dills, garlic, pickled tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, fresh horseradish, mustard, much more.
Guss's Pickles - Customers come from around the block and around the world to buy these sours, half sours, and green tomatoes from barrels on the sidewalk, still made according to Izzy Guss's original recipes.
Salsa 2 U - Gourmet salsa of the month club.
Site of the Month
Cookstr
Cookstr provides recipes from the best chefs & cookbook authors. All of the participating chefs/authors have their own profile pages: read about them, their restaurants, & see a selection of their great cookbooks.
Editor’s Pick
Love Street Living Foods
They offer organic, raw, vegan foods, free from all genetically modified or processed ingredients. We sampled their raw chocolate with goji berries - it was delicious. Their concept take a semi superfood like dark chocolate and make it a true super food by offering it raw with only organic ingredients (no proceed sugars). Terrific resource.
Featured Sites
Chocolate Cravings
Recchiuti Confections
Wonderfully inventive chocolate creations. Tops of our latest tasting their slivers of green apple/lime drenched in deep dark chocolate & Asphalt Jungle Mix ( burnt caramel almonds & hazelnuts, cherries & PB pearls all dipped in chocolate. Oh, and their seasonal flavor lavender vanilla is dreamy.
