I made it to a farm this past week for some cheap berries and I was able to do some strawberry jam (which turned out soooo foamy) and some triple berry jam, which included strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries, but didn't taste as delicious as it smelled.
I think I am done with canning until September when I go apple picking. Then I will attempt at least one batch of apple jelly. I am excited for that. I currently have 1o jars of jam (without adding the apple jelly) to eat through in the next year, so we'll see how that goes. I might have to declare a jam week once a month to get through it all: jam for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Over-production aside, I have really enjoyed making so much jam.
If anyone wants to try that granola bar recipe I thought that I would let you know that I reduced the brown sugar to half a cup when I made some more this week. I'll be honest, not as delicious after having the super sweet round first. Still very edible and I probably should keep it there because we could all use less sugar in our lives.
Also, the yogurt smoothie pops were pretty good. It just feels good making more of my own food from basic ingredients rather than buying so much processed junk.
But, not everything can be so easy. I tried baking angel food cake for the first time this week. Let me be clear here, NOT FROM SCRATCH. Way too ambitious while I'm off sweets. I used a Betty Crocker box mix. I heard it was delicious. It looked and smelled beautiful. I also think it would be a great thing to add to food storage because all it requires is water.
And that's all I have. I have no recipes set aside and am not planning anything new so this may be it on cooking for a while. Or, I could randomly bust out some new stuff tomorrow. It's always hard to say when the motivations and urges will strike. Now that I have jam out of my system maybe I'll have more cooking energy for something else.
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