Jam wanted!

I love when someone I don't know emails requesting a jam flavor - so now I have to make more Plum Valencia jam for this person. I am thinking of changing the name to Harvest Plum but unsure - I must do a survey but who to ask....I love this time of year when all the new fruits start creeping into the markets. And I love the magic of turning them into a neat beautiful jar of jam - I think of this process as a kind of alchemy - I think life can be managed this way or maybe an illusion? Make everything look good and it feels good? How shallow, trivial and true at the same time. Still thinking of Crete. I was reminded of Milea the tiny mountain village on Crete - fragrant, simple and beautiful. I could make great jam there....

Bonnie's Jams

Love making the first skinny rhubarb into jam with some big fat California strawberries. Whatever else could make me happy - ok getting 40 cases of Pepper Jelly made and out the door headed to lots of stores.
Still thinking of Crete - wish I could do something with the fantastic olive oil I brought back - so I am bringing back a cute student who is coming to work on an economics project - the olive oil tie-in? His family owns Biolea - an extraordinary organic olive oil mill in the the hills of Crete. I am not really bringing him back but he is traveling here and happily I found him a place to stay.