Recipes from our Chef and Dedicated Jam Lovers, Foodies and Gastronomes!
Our hand crafted Jams, Preserves, Marmalades, Chutneys, Mustards, Ketchup and tasty Dessert Sauces aren’t just for spreading on toast or bagels. Try a delicious marmalade mustard dipping sauce for seafood, or maybe an overnight basting for your holiday turkey, and don’t forget how amazing a Sour Cherry Jam crusting tastes on a nice bone-in Rib Eye Steak.
Our Chef, and our Customers are constantly coming up with new and innovative ways to enhance not just the flavor of your food, but the flavor of your life with our Jams and Preserves.
Delicious Seafood Recipes
Bright and Lively Lemon Ginger Tea Sweetened with Mendocino Jam’s Pure Wildflower Honey
This delicious cup of tea is a home remedy that can aid your health and warm your spirits!
Total Time: 10 mins
Prep: 5 mins
Cook: 5 mins
Ingredients for one cup of tea…
- Cup of Boiled Water
- Grate or mince Ginger (1 Tablespoon)
- Fresh Lemon Juice (1 Tablespoon)
- Mendocino Jam’s Pure Wildflower Honey (1 Tablespoon)
Directions…
- Gather a teapot or measuring cup. Place tablespoon of grated ginger inside.
- Pour the cup of boiling water over the ginger and let it steep for 5 minutes.
- Pour honey and lemon juice into your favorite tea mug.
- After the ginger has steeped, use a strainer to catch the ginger as you pour this brew into your mug.
- Stir well and Enjoy!
(Optional)
Spice it up a notch with any of the additional ingredients below. Just a pinch will do!
Cardamom, Cinnamon, Turmeric, Cayenne
Make it a Hot Toddy!
Add one shot whiskey or bourbon
Salmon with a Ginger Apricot Glaze
Salmon is one of the most popular fresh water fish and is rich in Omega 3 fatty acids and really, really tasty, especially with our Ginger Apricot Preserves Glaze! Grilled, Broiled or Baked our Apricot Preserves combined with a touch of freshly grated ginger give a sweat, zesty flavor and a perfect fruity crusting to an already delicious fish.
Dungeness Crab Cakes With Spicy Meyer Lemon Orange Marmalade
This recipe just keeps winning awards! Most recently at the Mendocino Wine, Beer and Crab Fest where our Our chef Andrew Wells and team member John Peri took home the prize for these crab cakes! https://www.facebook.com/mendocinojams/posts/1530880593700230
Rockfish Cakes with Spicy Meyer Lemon Orange Marmalade
This Rockfish Recipe, a favorite creation of our Chef, ROCKS! The sweet orange marmalade, combined with the tanginess of the lemon zest and the earthy spice of our gourmet mustard brings out the flavor of sweet Rockfish fillets. Couple with a nice Pinot Grigio, fresh vegetables and a light salad and you have a perfect, easy to prepare meal that will have your family and guests feeling the California Coast with each bite!
Incredible Dipping Sauces
Olallieberry Dipping Sauce:
Olallieberry is a blackish berry that is a hybrid of a loganberry and youngberry, and resembles an elongated blackberry. Sweet and tart this recipe with our Olallieberry Jam makes for a wonderful dipping sauce and is great as a glaze for pork chops too!
Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce
This tangy, sweet, delicious dipping sauce makes chicken nuggets so sweet and savory you’ll gobble them up faster than your kids do! An excellent dressing for sandwiches and a perfect dipping sauce for vegetables for your next party or gathering. Our Wildflower Honey enhances our hand crafted Honey Mustard and brings new meaning to finger licking good!
Apricot Balsamic Dipping Sauce
Our Apricot Preserves make a perfect dipping sauce for chicken, shrimp, kebabs. It’s wonderful on grilled vegetables, meats, seafood and poultry as a glaze or basting flavor.
