Savory Preserves
Savory preserves use salt, acidity and aromatic ingredients. Find a piquancy in Pear Lemon Sage White Pepper Marmalade perfect for cocktails and cheese. Pepper Jam fans will want the tomato jams. Sherry vinegar, orange zest and toasty fennel transform tart cherries into a versatile condiment in Cherry Fennel Sherry Jam. These flavors are seamless companions to cheese and cooking projects from burgers to dal to fried eggs and homefries.
A customer favorite, this savory leaning jam is complex and surprising.
Cherry Sherry Fennel Jam can temper super sweet bakes and tame intense vegetables. It gets along with nearly every cheese type.
Eat this with mustard and prosciutto, roasted ham, sheep's milk cheese, roast beef sandwiches with lots of mustard, or use it as a sauce with labneh for roasted brussels sprouts or any brassica like roasted cabbage, rapini, cauliflower, etc.
This honey sweetened jam contains: sour cherries, honey, apples, lemon juice, pedro ximenez sherry vinegar, orange zest, toasted fennel seed.
A savory marmalade of pears and lemon that plays with the traditional flavor pairing of pears and sage. The marmalade is cooked with a sachet of lavender flowers, crushed peppercorns and finished by steeping fresh sage leaves.
This marmalade is fantastic with aged goat cheeses, Tomme, Parmesan, Pecorino.
This honey sweetened marmalade contains: honey, organic/VT IPM pears, organic lemons, organic sage, organic lavender, organic white peppercorn.
Apricots cooked with a small amount of honey (allowing the tart character of the apricot to show through) and urfa biber chili pepper. Urfa Biber peppers are grown in Turkey and slowly dried under the sun to bring out a smoky and fruity flavor that is great with fruit. This has a mild heat.
In the spring, V Smiley Preserves uses organic west coast apricots and later in the summer, NY grown apricots.
This honey sweetened jam contains: apricots, honey, lemon juice, urfa biber pepper.
I use this jam in my home kitchen more than any other flavor. I use it every and anywhere I'd use ketchup. Organic heirloom tomatoes (from our home farm Lil To Do at 3343 River Rd New Haven) and Singing Cedars Farm, cooked with honey, lemon juice, urfa biber and silk chili peppers and sea salt. This jam celebrates all that is fruity in the tomato. Heat level on this is medium-hot
An exceedingly versatile preserve, Tomato Jam is salty, sweet, spicy and wants to join almost any toast, egg, beans or combine with tart fresh cheeses and create a base layer for flatbreads. This plays beautifully alongside many cheeses. Then Tomato Jam steps easily into pastry fillings. If you're still confused by Tomato Jam, just fry up some bacon and start dipping.
This honey sweetened jam contains: tomatoes, honey, lemon juice, urfa biber pepper, silk chili pepper, habanero and bulgarian pepper, sea salt.
A jammy nod to BBQ sauces, this savory & HOT preserve tastes like August summer. A jar of this Peach Tomato Lime and Chili Jam slides gracefully from your cheeseboard to pulled pork sandwiches and into your arsenal of BBQ mops you pull out alongside your grill and favorite style of ribs.
The tomatoes and chilies come from our very own Lil To Do Farm. Bulgarian Carrot Chilies live up to their name in looks (slender and orange) and pack a fruity flavor but without the heat of a habanero though the piquancy on this preserves falls into the HOT category.
This honey sweetened jam contains: peaches (Hudson Valley, NY / Pennsylvania / VT / certified organic), tomatoes, honey, lime juice, bulgarian carrot peppers, lemon juice, lime zest.