I can’t take credit for these recipes. But I can take photos…lots and lots of make-your-mouth-water-photos.
Daily Archive for May 3rd, 2009
The Great Strawberry Jam Disaster of ‘09
Posted in Cleaning, Food, Kitchen Disasters, canning on May 3rd, 2009
Today started out innocently enough. I had bought a few pounds of strawberries with the idea of making strawberry jam. I’ve tried my hand a few times at canning with mixed success. So I decided to use the VERY FIRST recipe in my Ball “Complete Book of Home Preserving”. Its the first recipe in the chapter called “getting started”. As in, if you can’t get this down, please put down your canning pot and step away from the kitchen. Well, I was feeling pretty good about myself. I’m no beginner, I’ve done this whole canning thing at least 4 times…