A fresh homemade strawberry jam! Preserving summers bounty for later! Strawberries are one of my favourite things about summer and what better way to enjoy them than to make a homemade strawberry jam! This recipe is a standard jam recipe with strawberries, sugar and pectin (which helps thicken the jam) where everything is hard boiled...

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Super easy slow cooker onion jam/marmalade/spread with maple and smoky chipotle chilies! Caramelizing onions was never easier! In between trips this summer I got an email from Loblaws asking me to reserve a day for a farm trip, and just like that the third Food Lovers Unite Challenge was upon me! Loblaws is my go...

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A fresh homemade strawberry jam with a hit of jalapeno heat! One of my favourite things about summer is fresh strawberries! I enjoy eating them by the bowl full and using them in tasty recipes and the one that I make every summer is strawberry jam! Using fresh strawberries to make your own jam is...

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A fresh homemade strawberry jam with a hint of basil! One of my favourite things of summer is strawberries and there’s little better than a fresh homemade jar of strawberry jam; well, unless it’s a strawberry basil jam! Strawberry jam is amazing all by itself but I also enjoy adding flavours like a hint of...

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Sweet and spice jalapeno hot pepper jelly or jam! Summer is just full of amazing fresh produce and it’s great to take advantage of it all by preserving it in various ways so that you can enjoy using it for the rest of the year. Some nice ways to preserve fresh produce is by freezing...

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A tomato jam with bacon where the tomatoes are slow roasted to bring out their flavour. With all of the filed ripened tomatoes around right now it is the perfect time for making sauces but I was thinking about something a little different, a tomato jam and with bacon day coming I was thinking that...

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A sweet, salty, smoky, spicy and down right tasty bacon jam that is the definition of umami! This bacon jam goes well on toast for breakfast and makes for a great condiment in sandwiches and burgers of all sorts! I do not know how I could have possibly missed the whole bacon jam band wagon...

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In amongst all of the oranges in the grocery store these days I noticed some new varieties that I had not come across before and I have been trying them out. One of the more interesting ones was the seville orange which was not what I was expecting when I cracked one open to eat...

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When I picked up the green tomatoes for the fried green tomato BLT sandwiches that I made earlier in the week, I got a whole basket of them and I had a lot left over. Luckily I had found just the recipe to use some of them up in on Steamy Kitchen in the form...

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Ever since I started making my own jams I have been making a strawberry jam every year when the strawberries are in season. With strawberry season now in full swing it was the perfect time to make some more strawberry jam and I was also running a bit low on supplies from previous years. I...

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