“Do you want roses for jam? My mother’s roses are blooming like crazy and she’s already picked what she will use for the season.” Thus read the text message from our friend Ozlem Sensoy and, within a few days, we were raiding Mrs. Sensoy’s intensely fragrant garden. That evening, we set to making jam.
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Rose Petal Jam
Published 27 June 2012 Food , Friends 14 CommentsTags: jam, Ozlem Sensoy, rose, rose petal jam, rose petals, roses
Strawberry & Balsamico Jam
Published 9 July 2010 Food 7 CommentsTags: balsamic, balsamico, BC, British Columbia, canning, jam, strawberry, vinegar
Celebrating the tail-end of B.C’s amazing strawberry crop — and spreading the enjoyment throughout the year.
Salmonberry Jam and Other Acts of Domesticity
Published 26 June 2008 Bio , Canada , Environment , Food 7 CommentsTags: blackberry, British Columbia, cooking, curds, domesticity, Food, forest, jam, jam making, Lower Mainland, Pacific Spirit Park, raspberry, Rubus Spectabilis, salmonberry, slamonberry jam, summer, Vancouver, yoghurt, yogurt
Summer has been slow to reach the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, and the natives have been getting restless. While we are sweating our asses off in India all winter, they are slogging through cold, grey, short days. The folks here seem relived and excited, in equal measure, that the cloudless skies of summer finally seem to have arrived.
My major disappointment about the unseasonably cold June is that the blackberries, which grow in such profusion here, will be slow to ripen. Fortunately, the fabulous salmonberry is now ripe for the plucking.
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