I can has jam!

[desperance]

(Um, I can stop with the macro talking nao? Plz?)

Melon, ginger & star anise jam: shrug off your doubts. Shrug off mine. As a breakfast marmalade-substitute, it is fantastic. Not as sweet as I feared, and wonderfully warm-flavoured, from both the preserved ginger and the star anise (and perhaps the slight caramelisation - it really doesn't taste burnt, but there is the hint of a bitter edge, which I treasure). I love this stuff. I was going to give it generously away, but now - well, I only got three small jars of it in the end, after all the boiling-down, and they won't go very far, and...

*whimpers*

*hugs jars to self*

*glowers suspiciously at friends*

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

*laughs*! That's very much how I feel about the marmalade my mother makes. :)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*sneaks up behind you with a mallet*

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Ha! Get thou behind me, Sa--

Oh. Thou art behind me.

*ulp!*

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Make more, now! And don't forget the accidental caramelisation...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

*shops for melons*

[cinderberry.livejournal.com]

No can has proper vocabulary back!

(I've been learning macrospeak by hanging out on ihasatardis day and night, and I think it's pretty marvelous. Srsly, a new language, who wouldn't want to learn and use it?)

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

I has been warded off by the anise, no worriz.

However, be aware that I have NO SCRUPLES AT ALL in pursuit of blueberries, lime, or mango.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Ah now, see, I used to be exactly the same. I still won't eat aniseed, nor liquorice, in their basic forms. I've just been woo'd, slowly over years, by those highly-regarded foodstuffs that have an aniseedy flavour: it started with fennel seeds (in Ireland, in a creamy sauce with fish) and I've moved cautiously forward from there. And star anise, particularly, I don't find aggressively anise-y.

Not that I'm trying to convert you (he said, hastily remembering the need to protect his dwindling stock). As to the others - well, blueberries are costly to the point of impracticality, but limes and mangoes are easy. Sweet jammy things, or spicy pickle things...?

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Sweet jammy things, or spicy pickle things...?

Both. Mango margaritas, lime anything, mango habanero candy, etc. Blueberries fresh or frozen, eaten as a frozen dessert.

I just remembered, I have lately enjoyed some kinds of licorice.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I just remembered, I have lately enjoyed some kinds of licorice.

Aha! Maybe it's just a late-developing adult taste in some of us. I will convert you yet, to my jammy goodness... (I swear, it's not very aniseedy; if it were, I prob'ly wouldn't like it either. It's mostly just deeper and warmer than it would have been elsewise, with just an edge of tang.)