A Little Cannin'

Gentle Friends, wrapping up my Summer Jamin' here are yesterday afternoons snaps...

... finally got to the point that my big ole spoon stands up!!  I filled up 20 8oz jars ...

... ran them through the boiling bath...after cleaning my big pot, and yes, it's the same pot I used to make the jam in... after making sure all the lids had popped tight!!

... and have ended up with 19 full jars of some pretty tasty jam!!  I kept one jar out for us and popped that sucker into the fridge.  These will make nice little gifts this winter.

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There you go sports fans.  Thanks again for stopping by do stop again. Stay Safe!

Good Thoughts! Good Words! Good Deeds!

edgar

A Little Stitchin' and llittle Jammin' and some Roses......

Gentle Friends...  a little stitching on Beatitudes... here's a snap...

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I got the plums on the stove and it filled my biggest pot to almost overflowing...

... just before the first boil...

... just after the second boil...

... now almost finished, this is after the third boil...Now just once more and then to fill up the jars!!

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You might remember that we usually get new flowers for the house each week and this week landed on some really interesting roses...I usually go for the yellow-orange variety but this just jumped out and was such a different shade of violet!!  They are really very fragrant also for store-bought flowers.

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There you go sports fans.  Thanks for stopping by do stop again. Stay Safe!

Good Thoughts! Good Words! Good Deeds!

edgar

A Little Jam a Little Finish and Some Virtual Cocktails.....

Gentle Friends...it's now the lazy fog enveloped days of Summer here by the Bay and once again I'm rattling the pots and pans to make some jam.  Last Sunday a good friend our ours brought us a few pounds of wonderful Satsuma plums... I asked him how much his tree was producing and he said that about every other year there's a bumper crop and this the year.... so far he's gotten over 100lbs of plums.  Yesterday we headed over to Berkeley where he lives and he gave me about 16+ lbs to make some jam with...  so...

... with a trunk full of plums we headed back home and last night I got busy and stoned the fruit...

... I have two of my very largest mixing bowls full of fruit!!  Today I got busy making some jam...  I'm using Natasha's Kitchen recipe for Plum Jam.  It's a super recipe, no peeling, no pectin just some sugar and fruit!!  I made some a few years ago and it was delicious!!  It takes a couple of days but it's so worth the effort.  I post other snaps later.

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Last night I finally finished up the puzzle I've been working on for the last couple of weeks.  I made sure to only do about 5 or 7 pieces a night to make it last but then I just pushed through and found I was missing a piece... I found out that I had some help... if you look sort of dead center you can see that a piece of the puzzle was "taste" tested by one of the Who Hounds... I think it was Smokie,   but here's a snap, and that sucker is still wet!!  It was a fun puzzle to put together.  I think I need to have bigger puzzles with more pieces so that they last longer....???

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My work is having a virtual Zoom Cocktail party tomorrow afternoon and I've hauled out some Bourbon's to decide which to make into some Old Fashioned's or a new to me drink "Revolvers"... which are made with bourbon, Kahlua, and a dash of orange bitters and an orange twist... sounds delish!!

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That's about it for today sports fans.  I'll post a snaperoo of The Beatitudes over the weekend.   

Stay Safe!

Good Thoughts! Good Words! Good Deeds!

edgar

A Little Jammin'

Gentle Friends, a while back I got a wild hair to make some jam and since there is some beautiful stone fruit coming into the City from the valley I knew that the long weekend was a perfect time to get it in gear and make some!!!!  I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted to make - it was a toss up between apricot and plum.... well... being the procrastinator I tend to be I waited to late for apricots and the plums were in full "fig" so plum it was.... I found a super recipe over at Natasha's Kitchen - click HERE to go there -  I had been looking for recipe that used NO extra pectin and she had one that works, and is super tasty!!!

I actually used two kinds of plums, a smaller prune plum from a friends tree and some black plums from the farmers market - 

I had to haul out my two biggest mixing bowls to macerate the fruit with sugar in... I actually ended up with around 13lbs of fruit.... so I upped the sugar 3/4 of a cup... after about an hour and 1/2 the fruit had released a ton of liquid.... so into the pot.....

...  I bought this great 10 quart restaurant pot from a consignment store a couple of weeks ago, something I had to have - not knowing then that shortly I would be putting it to use...

...  this is a snap of the first "come to boil" and "simmer 10 minutes"...

.... the first "coming back down to room temp"  and since the temps have been in the upper 50's here , I actually sat the whole pot on the "veranda" and let the foggy breezes bring the temps down even faster, to get a second boil in quicker.....

... a snap of the second boil/simmer, see how much of the liquid has evaporated....  it did spatter a bit during each boil/simmer and I had a damp sponge at the ready to wipe up all the spots.... I seemed to have missed one in this snap...

... and this is either the second or third cool down.....

... coming into the home stretch, this is going into the final boil/simmer and even at this point it is already thick and delicious!!!!

... and here's a snap of the final jarred jam, I got 15 and 3/4, 1/2 Pints out of this recipe.... 

some to keep and some to give away!!!!  I loved making this stuff and stretched it out over three days, so there was no rush or stress.  

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That's about it for today sports fans, thanks for stopping by do stop again!!

Take care,

edgar