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This week from our CAA Flickr Photo pool, we’re featuring Trish P.’s photo of Concord Grapes from Michigan. If you’d like to check out her blog entry on canning grape jam, visit her blog entry here: Adventures in Preserving and Canning.
Thank you for participating, Trish!
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This week’s CAA Photo of the Week was submitted by Lynnette Henderson. For a bonus, there’s a recipe included on how to make it at home.
Thanks, Lynnette!
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This week’s photo of the week is by melissa-ann, of her first experience canning pickles. Want to read more about it? Check out her entry on her first batch of garlic dill pickles.
Thank you, Melissa-Ann!
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In these waning days of summer, blackberries are one of the last berries to be picked and savored. To be honest, they are my absolute favorites. And we are so honored to be able to share with you the recipe for blackberry jam from the lovely book, My Nepenthe: Bohemian Tales of Food, Family, and Big Sur, by Romney Steele.
This book came out in November of last year and I’ve been reading it and using its recipes all year. It’s the memoir of a very special place, Nepenthe, a restaurant perched on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in California’s Big Sur area. It’s also a cookbook, with recipes from the restaurant and the family of author Romney Steele, whose grandparents opened the restaurant in 1949 and ran it until their deaths in the 1980s, when their children and grandchildren took it over.
I grew up in Monterey, CA, just up the coast from Big Sur, and Nepenthe was a staple of my childhood. My family and I would go there as a treat on spring and summer weekends. We’d eat lunch on the spacious terrace, all the while entranced with the spectacular view. I can attest to the specialness of the place and of the restaurant. There is something about both that is out of time and indescribable.
We are happy to have two recipes from the book to share with you. The recipe for simple blackberry jam is easy to make and can be used in a variety of ways. In the cookbook, the jam is used in Steele’s family recipe for birthday cake. As someone with a birthday in December, a birthday cake layered with blackberry jam sounds absolutely divine to me–a reminder of summer in the middle of winter. But, you can make it whenever you get the urge for a light, simple cake.
Check out this book! With its fabulous stories and fun recipes, I promise that you will be enchanted.
SIMPLE BLACKBERRY JAM
MY FAVORITE BIRTHDAY CAKE
CAA Contributor Jeanne Sauvage is the editor of the CAA website. She is also an accomplished gluten-free baker and shares her recipes on her website, Art of Gluten-Free Baking.
This week’s CAA Photo of the Week is by Rachel of Coconut & Lime. She wrote more about how to make this White Peach Fresh Ginger Jam and included the recipe on her blog. Be sure to check it out!
Thank you for contributing to the group, Rachel!
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This week’s photo of the week is by Melinda, AKA myeltsu, of tomato canning. Since the CAA has grown, it’s been fascinating to see how dynamic and varied our community is! Melinda, the photographer, is also a museum historian, bread baker, cook, gardener, art researcher, and sometime canner. George, pictured here, is an archaeologist, bibliophile, author and editor of books on the Maya (one of which is Palenque), sometime farmer, and tomato juice maker.
Through Melinda’s pictures and captions, we also learn a little bit of food history. If you’re into this too, check out the biography of Nicolas Appert, the 19th c. Frenchman considered the father of canning.
Thank you for sharing your pictures, Melinda!
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