Having Fun At A Jam Session

Every year for a very long time I get the urge to get in the kitchen and make jam from our garden. This year was and still is a bumper year fro strawberries. Theresa and I picked strawberries every morning for the past two weeks and gathered 10 to 12 quarts per session. Yesterday was the best day so we decided to get to work and make some jam.

Picking is fun specially when you are competing with the chip monks for the berry's.We managed to salvage enough for four batches of jam. Mostly we make cooked jam but this year we mixed it up so we made some freezer jam as well.

When we started we thought we might have enough strawberries for three batches but actually we made four. We now have enough preserves for the year with the other batches we already made. Next will come the cherries in about a week and finally the pear marmalade.

It is fun to make your own preserves as you know what is in them and you can be sure what you are eating. When you have a small yard and look foreword to harvesting your fruit you have to be prepared to share with the squirrels and chip monks. This year we have plenty but last year they received the lions share.

I am just happy to have fun at our annual Jam Session.