Some recipes tell you to remove the pith, but without the pith you are left with not a lot of orange peel even though it may not technically be part of the peel.

All I ended up doing was peeling a dozen oranges and taking a ton of notes. I loved that class, but it was fast-paced and because we divvied up the duties, I wasn’t able to get my hands on everything. In my pastry course, we did a massive candied orange peel campaign one night in a frenzy of garnishes and decorations.

It’s a fairly simple process (but not a quick one) to make candied orange peels, but I never had a desire. Jeremy on the other hand… he’ll sit there and eat one after another. I mean, I can stomach maybe one, or two – but that’s enough for the year. Mind you, I don’t dig on candied orange peels myself.

Since I was juicing oranges recently, a flash of brilliance hit me smack in the forehead and I decided to make candied orange peels. So it’s great that I have a composting system because I can reduce the amount of trash we take to the dump by half! Even so, I would prefer not to have to throw things away if possible. I don’t have my own garden yet, but one day I will figure out what to grow in our 2-week growing season…

Now that we’ve been in our own house for 2 years, I’ve been rejoicing in my own compost pile (well, compost bin – otherwise the winds would have my potato peels strewn across the next county) which sits in my own yard. For many years we rented because we were in grad school, because post-docs are so short-term, because we lived in Southern California… All those years I cooked and produced vegetable and fruit scraps and bemoaned the fact that I didn’t have a compost pile of my own, in a yard of my own, to put on a garden of my own.

Quick candied clementines