Saint Arnold and Art Cars

Thursday August 6th, 2015 was IPA Day. Also commonly referred to as National IPA Day or International IPA Day, Craft Beer says IPA Day is opportunity for all breweries, bloggers, businesses and consumers to connect and share their love of craft beer. Bars and breweries around Houston and the world set to celebrating. Saint Arnold … Read more

X Files: Tooms (s1 e21)

Summary: The return of Eugene Victor Tooms from episode 3.  Still creepy and slimy. The first appearance of FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner, and with Cigarette Smoking Man blatantly overseeing the meeting with Scully, informing her that her work on the X Files isn’t up to expectations. Mulder presents crazy sounding evidence at Tooms’ parole hearing, … Read more

Jam #1: Strawberry

So, I’ve been meaning to make some jam and the cheap strawberries littering the aisles of the supermarkets made me finally do it.  The honey I used (in place of some of the sugar) was more expensive than the fruit.  Granulated sugar would have been considerably cheaper.

I enjoy reading Food In Jars and I was eyeing her Strawberry Vanilla jam recipe, and based mine on that.

First I had to look up macerated strawberries.  Once I figured out what that meant, I got to it. Cut up the strawberries in small pieces, cover them in powdered sugar and put them in the fridge.  You don’t have to be delicate. Smashing them into the jar with a wooden spoon is encouraged.  I removed most of the white interior pith – later reading leads me to believe that might be discouraged.

macerated strawberries in quart ball jar

My strawberries were slightly underripe though fully red.  I didn’t use the whole container I bought, just filled up a quart mason jar.  It started with the juice a little under half way up the jar.  It ended almost to the top after a few hours.

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