I spent the whole time we were travelling to and from Canberra worrying about a few things. One of those things was what I had done to my precious, precious apricot jam. Was it salvagable? Had I made more apricot paste? (I still have a jar of apricot paste from when I overprocessed it last … Continue reading
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{Storing the Harvest} DIY Apriot Jam
Technically this post should probably be called DIY Burnt Apricot Jam, because I’m pretty sure that’s what I did. But since I want to focus on the positives, we’ll pretend like it didn’t happen. About two days ago Nick announced that we should head to Canberra this week. We were going to head up at some … Continue reading
{DIY} Chalk Jam Labels
For Christmas I made 30 tiny jars of jam to give as gifts, which meant I needed a way to label 30 tiny jars of jam. I also needed to find a way to label them that a) didn’t cost very much money and b) covered up the lids since I was recycling them. I … Continue reading
Christmas Eve – DIY Present Update
I have no idea where the last few weeks have gone, but apparently my advent calendar informs me that there is only one day left til Christmas! This means that it’s time to finish up with all those Christmas projects I’ve been working on and get them all wrapped for tomorrow. First up were the food … Continue reading
{DIY} Christmas Gifts – Crabapple Jelly
In keeping with my attempts to make my Christmas hampers this year for as little as possible I recently put a call out on facebook to see if any of my friends had fruit going to waste that they wanted to donate to my jam making quest. One of my friends replied and said she … Continue reading
Repotting Strawberry Plants
Way back in September I bought six strawberry plants. At the time they came in one punnet, so tiny were they. Given that I knew that I would be out of action from the garden for quite some time, I repotted those tiny strawberry plants into another pot – two to each one. I kept … Continue reading
{DIY} Christmas Gift – Jam Shortbread Biscuits Recipe
A few weeks ago I told one of my friends (she of the rhubarb shrub) that we should arrange to have a baking day to get all of our Christmas baking done and out of the way. Fun though baking is, it can get quite tedious when on one’s own. To my surprise she both agreed … Continue reading
{DIY} Christmas Gifts – Rhubarb Jam Recipe
One of my friends has a rhubarb plant that she wants to rip out. Her husband planted it quite some time ago, but they almost never use it. It’s taking up about half of one of their raised beds, and she’s worried that her two year old son will, one day, take to chomping on … Continue reading
