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| that is one happy little peep with her jam efforts for her friends :) |
in team A we have steve and my sweet mum (or granny as we refer to her) and they are making strawberry and balsamic jam, recipe courtesy of celebrate food and pinned to my 2011 advent crafts board. and in team B we have myself and the two peeps and we are making easy strawberry jam using the recipe from chelsea's sugar jam :) nothing like a bit of rivalry to make the best strawberry jam ;)
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| the peeps measuring out the strawberries |
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| the peeps and i had two ingredients for our jam: strawberries and chelsea jam setting sugar ... the results were outstanding. |
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| my sweet mum in team A working on the strawberry balsamic jam ... this jam tastes so very good! |
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| an incredibly cheesy picture of my husband stirring the jam |
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| the renamed balberry (balsamic/strawberry) jam ... honestly you guys in team A just couldn't go with making jam you HAD to rename it to? |
outcome: mightly tasty! both versions are superb, the B team chelsea recipe would be fantastic on english muffins and the very yummy strawberry/balsamic jam from celebrate food (or balberry jam as steve has renamed it ... does anyone want to borrow a husband for a week ;}) would be perfect for some good wholesome grainy bread like moleberg .... ooooh i am salivating just thinking about it! luckily there are a couple of jam jars left over for us to have :)
my thanks to celebrate food for this recipe and to chelsea sugar for making jam so easy to do with their wonderful jam setting sugar :)
now for some gratuitous photos that i will be adding each day in december so you can get to know me and my family more and see how we celebrate christmas in new zealand ... and so my family that are miles away can see what we've been up to during the festive season :)
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| this is the book the kids and i read for the first ... such a cool book to start december with. |
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| of course the craft we did for the book also combined with the christmas spirit advent and we all wrote letters to santa. then we made the latest lego addition to our winter village :) LOVE LEGO in our HOUSE! |
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| ben studious writing his letter to santa, since he was a wee fellow he has always asked santa for a lego hospital ... he is still waiting for one to turn up! |
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| my sweet mum, contemplating what she wants, she is hopeless ... she always writes to santa asking for new gardening gloves! |
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| once everyone has written their letters we each read them aloud and see what everyone has written and asked for! polly was laughing because she also asked santa to bring granny some gardening gloves!~ |
1 comment:
Awesome post! The jam sounds super yummy and seems a lot easier to make than I thought. Love the letter to Santa pics. (I'll add gardening gloves for granny to my list too!)
And Lego ROCKS!!!! Did I ever tell you that when I was 13 I won a trip to Legoland in Denmark?
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