Old-Fashioned Strawberry Jam It’s strawberry season and the kitchen counter is filled with canning jars, sugar, and berries. I gave up making jam with pectin long ago. My jam takes a little longer to boil, but the natural pectin in the fruit, along with the added pectin in the lemon zest produces a reliably thick, chunky […]
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Hygge in the Garden
Five Ways to Find Hygge in the Garden Coming home to the garden after a week of travel was not the homecoming I had anticipated. Instead, I felt stressed. There was simply too much to do. But wait! I remembered that my garden was my sanctuary, the place I go to de-stress and relax. Over […]