Jam Sessions

Well September snuck in somehow, very quietly, on it's tiptoes. It's very hard to believe that this time next week, my little's will be back to school. We have had a wonderful summer, lot's of swimming, many long lazy days, and glorious sunny weather. In the last couple of days, there seems to have been a shift somewhere, the weather is much cooler, the mornings are crisp, and the nights have become much shorter. At every corner, we are now reminded that kids are going back to school, the flyers in the mailbox affirm this. So now fall lingers just around the corner, and a sure full sign of this is the harvest. All the corn fields around our home have been cut down, giving way to mountains of covered silage. In the vineyards grapes are being picked to make next years wine. In our own gardens, the grape arbor this year, was amazing, producing endless amounts of white table grapes. We have picked most of them now, atleast the one's the birds didn't get too. Blackberries and figs are also ready for picking, both of which I adore in jams and jellies. The harvest has given way to many afternoon jam sessions in my kitchen. With this, there is lots peeling, chopping, stirring and watching the pot so it does not boil over. It may all seem a bit tedious, but I quite enjoy the quiet time, and the patience it requires, to wait for that perfect spoonful of jam or jelly. Although summer is slowly fading away, come winter time it will be lovely to open up one of these jars of jam, were summer has been preserved.

*Method I use for all of my jams found here.