Comments on: Ceci n’est pas un blog de cuisine: Strawberry Jam

By: rebecca

rebecca — Wed, 18 May 2011 08:57:54 +0000

Thanks, everyone, for your wonderful comments. Nothing seems to strike a chord in the heart like homemade jam! @Sarah, for pure effort/pleasure ratio, no better way to spend a Sunday :)

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 17 May 2011 22:42:43 +0000

Well said – as usual! Brava!

By: Sarah Weiner

Sarah Weiner — Tue, 17 May 2011 20:00:55 +0000

Reading this made my day! Sitting here in my office I can now smell jam cooking, yum! When I was a teenager and my parents split and my mother moved from the big city of Denver to Bellingham, Washington, she took advantage of all the wild blackberries that fill all the roadside ditches and vacant lots there to start making jam. We went to “U-Pick” farms and put up strawberry and blueberry jam too, and later in the summer made applebutter. Now, maybe I should give it a try…

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Tue, 17 May 2011 19:54:28 +0000

Rebecca, as a result of your blog post, reports are coming in from the countryside. Strawberry vines have been spotted winding there way out of their berry patches toward Umbria, their leaves rustling an almost audible sound, that according to one boy in rural California, “sounds like ‘Brigolante’.”

You capture a delicious turn of phrase and culture in your writing. Complimenti!

By: rebecca

rebecca — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:45:56 +0000

@George: Ok, now we are speaking the same language. I’m going to sit down this weekend and get a little more acquainted with my camera. I’ll let you know how it goes!

By: rebecca

rebecca — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:44:52 +0000

Wait. Hold the phone. Eric, as in Eric Diesel of slashfood and urbanhomeblog?

You think my jam is beautiful.

Sorry, I just need to sit down for a minute.

(Thanks!)

By: George

George — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:29:18 +0000

I’ll try again. When you go into the menu is there a “White Balance” setting? Can you change it? You may not be able to, depending on which scenario you’ve chosen (landscape, flower, running man, etc.). My “light sensitive” mode is a person in double parentheses. When I’m in that mode, I can go into the menu and change the white balance to the one that looks like a light bulb. When I do that, the image becomes clear, not washed over with orange.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:52:20 +0000

Very nice post, and you are right: canning is addictive. Beautiful jam, by the way.

By: rebecca

rebecca — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:37:08 +0000

To George: “It’s like she’s trying to speak to me, I know it. Look, you’re really cute, but I can’t understand what you’re saying. Say the first thing again.”

By: George

George — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:42:40 +0000

I may be able to help with the lighting issue. Can you change the white balance on your camera? There should be a tungsten setting, which will neutralize the orange effect.