Easy Homemade Blueberry Jam

Esther Reisinger — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:43:37 +0000

By Esther Reisinger Do you feel like lately, there has been a return to our homemade roots? Do you even know what I mean by homemade roots? I make up phrases. Let me explain: I feel that I’m seeing so much more from our modern kitchens made the old-fashioned way: from scratch. We’re trying our hands at homemade bread, pie and pie crust, salsa, and spaghetti sauce, just like our fore..mothers? We’re realizing that things are better for you if you know exactly what went into them. As a result, my opinion on canning and jarring in your own kitchen has changed. Where I once looked at making homemade jam with a certain amount of disdain and suspicion, I now see a vast horizon of possibilities. For example: I really wish I could grow tomatoes so I could can them. I know that the tomatoes you buy during the off-season (which I do and will probably continue to do) aren’t really stand-up tomatoes, if we’re being honest (and personifying fruits and vegetables). And I’m sure the same applies to other fruits and vegetables that we purchase at the grocery store. This is the closest I’ve come to jarring something in […]

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Breakfast Musings: Blueberries with Yogurt & Granola

Maris Callahan — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:00:00 +0000

I usually prefer to buy fruits and vegetables in-season, proven by my recent love affair with local apples. However, I’m also stubborn and if I’m craving something, I want it now, not in six months when it’s available on the cart at the farmer’s market. Which so happened a few days ago, with blueberries. When I get busy, sometimes some of my priorities get lost in the shuffle, like working out daily or doing my laundry once a week (I can go two until I start to run low on essentials like socks and underwear but my hamper gets really, really full). I let things slide – dust bunnies might pop up on my shelves, the shawl I’ve been knitting since July goes untouched for days. But the one thing I rarely forget to do is eat. I think that for a single twenty-something, “cooking” is a pretty relative term. A coworker and I have been debating recently what it means to cook dinner. Her version of cooking is anything that doesn’t fall into the categories of take-out or delivery and I tend to agree. Cooking can mean making something from scratch with fresh ingredients and hours spent chopping, marinating […]

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Easy Homemade Blueberry Jam

Breakfast Musings: Blueberries with Yogurt & Granola