A few days ago I spent the afternoon with my friend Marie. She is a lady that I absolutely adore! Her children range in age from like 8-18 (four boys) and are some of the most well mannered kids I have ever met. Marie makes homemade pepper jelly every summer with the peppers she grows in her garden. In case you didn't know this already I am a big fan of pepper jelly. I sometimes buy the Harry & David kind but not often since I'm poor. Well...Marie invited me to come spend the afternoon at her house and learn to make pepper jelly. All she asked me to bring was some jars and some sugar. She grew all the peppers herself. And she had the vinegar and pectin. I came home with ten jars of pepper jelly. I had so much fun. I had intended to post pictures but I got so caught up in actually making jelly I forgot to take pictues of us making jelly.
While we were waiting for the jelly to cool a little Marie told me about how to make other kinds of jelly. She said if you can make one (and I did in fact make a batch of the pepper jelly) that you can make any kind. I am excited to try and make some strawberry jam. I am excited to have a skill that I have always wanted. I feel like I can make something and give it to people as a gift and they will think I am so cool for knowing how to make this! Ha! I am such a dork.
So this has me thinking about other things I want to learn to make. So I am making a list of the things I want to learn to make. I already have a list of things I want to learn to do. I will probably post these at a later date. I am excited that I am learning how to make things from scratch. Oh, this is a random side note but my grandma gave me a bunch of vegetables from her garden so I am cooking lots of FRESH things this week and that makes me happy too!
I guess this post was kind of random...but it's all I've got for now!
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