Today for lab meeting it was my turn to bring in food, and I remembered a treat Robin used to make when we were little - cream cheese and jam on crackers. So I bought some buttery wheat crackers and whipped cream cheese. I simply spread the cream cheese on the crackers and topped it with a generous amount of, drum roll please, homemade apricot lavender jam. Served with blackberries and some baby peaches from my coworker Rosie's back yard and it was the perfect snack. I don't think there's much of that jam left at all. Libby, your jammin really rocks!
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
We be jammin
My friend Libby is an amazing jammer, but she plays no instrument. When Libby jams late at night it involves big vats of boiling water, mason jars, fresh local fruits, lots of sugar and lots of love. When Libby moved last week she left me a whole flat of homemade jam! I really feel like I have a box of gold bars in my closet, it's that precious. Strawberry, fig, apricot, plum ... the list goes on.
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THank you for the story. You, Libby and Rosie really gave the lab some fine eating. Giving people joy by coaxing flavors out of beautiful life forms. Apricot lavendar. What a wonderful gift Libby left you.
The half-pound of salmon I got at Wagshal's today still had its little fin on it, like a little wing. A wing (or I guess a fin too) makes me think of freedom, being able to roam under one's own power, autonomy. I don't know that I'll think all that deeply about that when I eat it. I expect that I'll still find the fish delicious.
Love,
Mom
That's actually a little creepy--after dinner today I really wanted a dessert and noticed I had a little cream cheese left, so I made myself a little cream cheese and blueberry preserve sandwich. I think I was channelling you or something.
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