Life in a Suburban Neighborhood as seen through the eyes of a childless, married woman in her twenties. Read all about her adventures with the crazy people in the neighborhood, her interactions with those outside of the neighborhood and her adventures outside of the suburbs. http://theburbblog.com/Home/tabid/55/BlogId/1/Default.aspx en-US kat@theburbblog.com admin@theburbblog.com Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:16:45 GMT Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:16:45 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blog RSS Generator Version 3.4.0.39853 <p><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="line-height: 115%">Last week I spent some time in the kitchen canning. By canning, I mean putting things into a jar.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img style="width: 232px; height: 388px" alt="" src="/Portals/0/2009/Blog Photos/June/jamstacked.JPG" /></p> <p> </p> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="line-height: 115%">When I was younger, my mom with the leader of our 4-H Cooking & Gardening group; she taught all of us many things, including how to make jelly and jam. I remember it taking FOREVER so I’ve never been interested. Looking back, I think it only took forever because she was teaching all of us and there were a big bunch of us! Plus, when you’re ten years old, all you want to do is play and cooking in the REAL kitchen is NOT playing.</span></span></span></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="line-height: 115%">All in all, I think this took me about 1-2 hours this time. I made 3 different kinds of strawberry jam (strawberry using pectin, strawberry without pectin for immediate consumption and strawberry blueberry jam for immediate consumption). </span></span></span></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="line-height: 115%">One of my old buddies from youth group back in the Huntington Beach days has some excellent <a href="http://delicioushouse.blogspot.com/2009/05/homemade-fresh-strawberry-jam.html"><u><strong><span style="color: #ff9900">instructions on her blog</span></strong></u></a>. I also borrowed some instructions from the back of the pectin container. </span></span></span></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="line-height: 115%">Another thing I made was blueberry syrup for my pancakes and desserts. Whatever I don’t use in the next day or so will go in the freezer. Yum!</span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="line-height: 115%"><img width="400" height="400" alt="" src="/Portals/0/2009/Blog Photos/June/jamcollage.jpg" /></span></span></span></div> http://theburbblog.com/Home/tabid/55/EntryID/298/Default.aspx kat@theburbblog.com http://theburbblog.com/Home/tabid/55/EntryID/298/Default.aspx#Comments http://theburbblog.com/Default.aspx?tabid=55&EntryID=298 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:05:00 GMT 0 http://theburbblog.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=298