The last couple of weeks has been all about pickles! I canned about 90 pounds of dill cukes and about 25 pounds of green and wax beans. On top of that, I put up some dilly carrots and cauliflower. These are so good to snack on and go well with a cheese or charcuterie platter. Pickle party!!
Only the beginning of summer and I’m already up to my ears in jam! I love picking up fresh fruit and berries at this time of the year.
I heart VWFC! Blueberry white nectarine, with an added kick of white rum
Blueberries and white nectarine for my Blue & White jam. Go VWFC!!
Vanilla Earl Grey strawberry rhubarb
Vanilla bourbon pear
Vanilla basil strawberry jam made with local strawberries
STW jam on toast
STW jam inspired by the band Said The Whale Strawberry Tequila Watermelon
Strawberry lychee ready to jam
Strawberry Lychee – such a wonderful flavour
Local strawberry jam
Jam made with rhubarb and red currants from my garden. Low sugar variety!
Raspberry Lychee – expensive to make, but delicious!
Homegrown raspberries!
Hot Hot Heat pepper jelly and sweet pepper jelly Delicious on cream cheese and crackers, or in a grilled cheese sandwich!
Cherry apricot – delicious!
Bumbleberry – a combination of blueberry, cherry, strawberry and raspberry
Bumbleberry
Blueberry lime
Love BC blueberries! Classic, lime, vanilla basil and bluebarb
Okanagan cherries, canned with and without bourbon
Classic cherry and no sugar cherry lime jam
Red currants harvested from my garden
local strawberry jam
I made a few batches this spring:
Bacon jam!
Jam shortbread jars – so good!
Hey Rosetta! jam
Huckleberry Raspberry
Hand pies filled with homemade jam
Orange and black jams for BC Lions
Beautiful black cherry tomatoes made a lovely jam!
Bacon jam
Canning happens all year round. Here is some of the things I put up during the winter months earlier this year.
Seville orange marmalade
Kumquat and murcott tangerine marmalade
Meyer lemon, blood orange marmalades
Mmmarmalade!
Seville orange and KOL marmalades
Kumquats are my favourite citrus!
So much chopping!
Meyer lemon, kumquat and blood orange marmalade
Citrus bath
more apple jam!
Lots of prep for marmalade
Tomato jams
I’ve neglected my jam blog for way too long. It’s not that I haven’t been canning, more like I’ve been so busy canning. Here are some highlights from the last few months:
Tomato basil jam
Tomato jam with smoked paprika
Salted brown sugar peach
Dill pickled wax and green beans
Pickles!
Apple jam
Apple jam
Vanilla bourbon pear
A friend went to Alberta and brought me back some saskatoons. I made a small batch of rhubarb saskatoon jam.
My aunt’s plum tree was quite productive this year. All the better for me!
Spiced plum and ginger plum
While visiting family in the Cariboo, I was given some freshly picked huckleberries. I like them even more than blueberries!
I love the tartness of crab apples. They make delicious jam! I made a couple of different batches with 2 kinds of crab apples.\
I loved picking wild blackberries this summer. I made a batch of blackberry lime, blackberry basil and blackberry mojito.
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