I can jam… yes I can… jamming mam I am… Alright, I’ve been reading Dr. Seuss to our kids lately. This is my first attempt at making Jam and canning it. It turns out I used powdered pectin when I should have used liquid ? I don’t know if that is why the jam is [...]

We’ve started dipping into the parsley already… Yumm! It was just so beautiful with the recent rain, I couldn’t resist and it’s good for the plant… it just keeps making more. Slobo did a post on the benefits of parsley…. I’m impressed! And with Lidia’s New Cookbook that I got for Mother’s day… I can’t [...]

How wonderful! Today we found a ton of blackberry bushes in our own backyard! Those pesky prickly’s I’ve neglected to trim down that were growing where once watermelon’s grew…… Low and behold – they were producing just when the kids and I decided to do some weeding. One of their friends told us where there [...]