Tag: homegrown kumquats

Easy  Vegan Marmalade Cake

Easy Vegan Marmalade Cake

I make this cake more often than any other simply because the recipe calls for marmalade. I’m a big fan of anything that uses up marmalade. That’s because Rob and I have a whole closet filled with the stuff. See, last winter we made a big batch of marmalade with our own kumquats and Rangpur …

Homemade Marmalade

Homemade Marmalade

Last week, we had our first big freeze of the winter. The weatherman predicted it would get down to 18 degrees on Tuesday night, so that evening Rob and I went out and picked all our kumquats—20 pounds of kumquats—so they wouldn’t be damaged by 

Meiwa Kumquats

Meiwa Kumquats

My Meiwa kumquats are ripe. Hooray! I highly recommend this variety. Our tree is tiny, less than four feet tall, but it produces like crazy–and the fruit is so sweet! Seriously, these kumquats are really not sour at all. And they’re so cute and round, like little orange Christmas balls.