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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 2:18 pm Post subject: Strawberry Portrait |
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It has become a tradition for me and I hope for my oldest, that I make her a dozen one pint jars (a little more than a UK pint) of strawberry jam for her birthday every year. Of all the jam and jelly I have made over the years, the strawberry is her favorite. I am not sure that she shares any of it with her family either.
I don't grow the strawberries but each spring I wait patiently for the Driscoll Strawberries to arrive in our stores from Calif. They are huge and have the most fantastic taste and make wonderful jam. So that is what I have been doing this past week, making her jam.
I dumped a pound of them into the collander to wash the other morning, the bright red berries, green leaves and the silver collander was just too pretty not to take a picture of.
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I fetched a towel to cover up my keyboard with before I opened this post. I'm very glad I did! And you're probably glad I'm not with you in your kitchen. You'd have nothing left to make jam from. 
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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You may just have got one pot of jam from all those strawberries Toni if I'd been around and you'd been quick enough!!! There again Droopy would have polished them off so we'd have saved you time and energy. 
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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ummmmmm looks soooo good toni.I'm so near to you , you best put a guard at your door  .
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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Lucky, lucky, lucky daughter!!! OMG i would love to get a dozen jars of strawberry jam for my b'day. And i wouldn't share them either,,lol. That is a beautiful pic Toni,,, but then again i like different looking kinds of things. It looks like you could just pick one right off the photo. Since Droopy and Eileen beat me here, i guess i get to lick the bowl,,,lol.
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Yum, Yum !! My little patch - not much production this year. I think fertilizing is in order and bird netting. They seem to love them ! I agree, the fruit of the earth is beautiful.
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They look so good. Your lucky daughter... We love strawberry pie...I make one or two every summer. I just made a homemade blueberry pie and it is so good. I make my crust from scratch and the pie filling. Cans of filling can be good but homemade is great.
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Oh ...don't those look nice!
I sure hope that I will have enough to make jam with this year...it doesn't look like it, though...and my bride refuses to can anything bought. hahahaha...purist!
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