Lazy Sunday, The Jam Edition

Just getting to this part took a few hours

Once again it is time to start making a year’s supply of preserves. With all the citrus on sale and nice and ripe, marmalade is a good place to start.

Hopefully this year I will not repeat the mistake of last year and it sets up. Otherwise it will be another year of inventive ways to incorporate marmalade into dinner.

Last year, I also made strawberry preserves, fig jam, peach amaretto jam, blueberry honey jam and blackberry jam. I’ll definitely repeat some of those depending on how the fruit crops are. (Strawberries were early this year.) I’ll be coming up with some new recipes, I hope, too. Now the only other dilemma will be continuing to come up with new ways to photograph all these preserves.

The in-the-pan shots:

Those are the canning jars sterilizing in the background

It will stick if you forget to stir all the time

The ‘Why am I in the bedroom window?’ shot:

Is it tea time already?

The ‘Isn’t Katherine’s handwriting sloppy?’ shot:

Do not stack this way at home

The ‘Be careful pouring or you’ll mess up your John Deere dishtowel’ shot:

So very healthy

The ‘Who puts jam on crackers?’ shot:

Yummy yummy yummy I've got jam in my tummy.

The check out these biscuits shot:

Why is it that bowl there?

OK, seriously, check out these biscuits:

The basket is mine, everyone else can share the one on the plate

Orange you glad you stopped by!

It takes a long time to remove the pith from the peel