Transient J's Profile

These are beautiful-- what amazing colours!

Blueberry. Wild Maine blueberry from my FIL's land, to be specific. Also, amaretto peach jam...I'm getting it right by trial and error, but it's still so good!

I've never gotten the freezer plate test to work for me. I use a spoon, take a shallow scoop of jam and hold it above the pot, tip the spoon and let it slide off. When it stops falling in plops and begins to sheet, then it's ready. It's worked for apple jelly and berry jam, both with no added pectin ((though better with the apple, since it wasn't full of stuff)). I'll be doing my first pectin jam tomorrow ((wild blueberry)) and I'm afraid I'm going to over gel it.

A nice steak with grilled polenta, zucchini and tomato slices.

Purim is one of my favourite holidays-- we used to get together in the dorm kitchens and bake up massive quantities of hamantaschen. I'll have to give these a try with apricot this year.

Ooh, I would do a beef short ribs and root vegetables dish, with a sweet and spicy maple glaze.

They look amazing! I've been trying to get my fiance to stop eating the pre-packaged ones and was on the search for a recipe. This is great.

It's tradition for our family to wake up late, snack on something like cheese or bread while opening presents, then dive right into making Christmas dinner!

Dark chocolate with caramel, hands down! The darker the better, or else it's too sweet. Dark with cayenne pepper is heavenly, too.

Braised short ribs, with maple glaze and plenty of onions. Definite yum.