Making strawberry jam...

I didn't know it was that easy, if i had known i would have done this every summer....because it just tastes YUMMIE!

I have been starting my jam adventure with this wonderful and so do-able recipe from the Dutch author Yvette van Boven form her book Home made.  (Also available in English at Amazon).

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A new day and a New year, happy 2012!!!

Thank you Stephanie for your kind words...A little Q&A with me over here at her blog..

Snaps around the house...

 My reads...

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Made some ElderFlower lemonade this weekend...hmmmmm

I love the beauty of the Elderflower. She is magical to me..This year i was somewhat hypnotized by her. I wonder what that means? There are all sorts of stories about her to be found on the internet. In those stories the elderflower is often being portrait as a symbol of wisdom and protection of the homestead and even of the dead. I just don't know why i am drawn to it this year so strongly..I wonder...

... Here i have harvested the Elderflower. I am ready to pull off the flowers so they can be put in the glaze pot. I want just the white flowers to be in there without any of the green parts.

Put all the delightful white flowers into a closed glaze pot filled with water and just let it rest on a shelf for 2 days. This way the elderflowers' enchanting smell and taste will be pulled from the flowers into the water. This water becomes the lemonade later on. 

After 2 days you sif the water really well in a super clean kitchen towel. then you put it in a pan on your stove and add lemon and sugar to it. I have used 1 kilo of sugar for 3 liters of water, and 3 organic lemons as well. 

Then you boil the water and the sugar really well...and put it into the sterilized bottles you have prepared...

                                                 A Yummi sight! Ready to be enjoyed!!!

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