During the years I was in middle school, my family lived in a house just off Canyon Drive, in SW Portland. It was an isolating…
Browsing Category Homemade Jam
Jam on it: A toast to homemade jam, from raspberry to blackberry to whatever-you-got-berry.
Strawberry Jam
Several weeks ago, I got up early on Saturday morning, collected my friend Shay(she’s my regular fruit-picking buddy) and drove half an hour out into…
Sour Cherry Jam Recipe
I had grand plans for sour cherries this year. I knew that the sweet cherry crop had been bad, so when Mood’s Farm Market opened…
Blueberry Jam
When it comes to canning, blueberries were my gateway fruit (although they didn’t usher me through the doorway into the realm of canning preoccupation until…
Blackberry Jam
People in the Pacific Northwest take wild blackberries for granted. In fact, they’re something of a nuisance, lining highways and filling empty lots (my dad…
Seattle Pictures + Raspberry Jam
A couple of months ago, based solely on a handful of tweets and a couple of emails, I logged onto Travelocity and bought a plane…
A Fig Jam Recipe and My Community Garden Harvest
Throughout the beginning of September, my friend Albert kept tweeting about all the figs he was picking throughout the city. While I’m a big fan…
Gift in a Jar: Apple-Cranberry Jam
Throughout my childhood and teenage years, my parents’ standard holiday gift for friends and family was a bag of my dad’s homemade pancake mix (in…
Apple-Ginger Jam
For the longest time, I’ve had it in my mind to make an gingery apple jam. I wanted something that had a true gingery punch,…
Honey Lemon Apple Jam Recipe
For months now, I’ve been working on finding a way to make a jam from apples that is satisfying and, well, jammy. The problem with…
Charoses Inspired Jam for Passover
A couple of weeks ago, I got the most inspired idea from a reader. Knowing that Passover is around the corner, she wondered whether it…
