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I can has jam!
Jun. 21st, 2007 10:22 am(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*
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*