doudsville

so i cant resist those big plastic containers of fruit at costco. you know, the blueberries, grapes, strawberries, etc. the thing is, the kid and the husband don't really even LIKE those fruits, so i end up with a whole lotta fruit and only little(is joke) ole me to eat it.

so yesterday i looked into the face of four pounds of rapidly ripening strawberries....and i took action. and by "action" i mean i googled. i googled "strawberry recipes" and BAM! the first one that came up was for jam, and it only had THREE ingredients.

sold.

so i took my berries, sugar, and lemon juice and i made jam. and it was WAY easier than i thought it'd be. i always thought making jam was some dark art or something, right? you have to sterilize bottles and turn them upside down and use a frozen plate to test for "gelling" and so forth. ain't no thang. i'm a jammer now.

oh, the pic is of what elizabeth did during the jamming production. she's standing on a kitchen chair at the counter eating blueberry yogurt. probably not super safe, but i remember the whole standing-on-a-chair-at-the-counter-helping-mom-thing as a kid, and i'm never one to buck tradition.

shortly after i snapped that pic, she got a hold of her toothbrush and started using it a yogurt utensil. and shortly after that, she used the toothbrush as a yogurt painting utensil. she may have a future in abstracts. medium: yogurt on granite.