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01 January 2014

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We're staying at this apartment in Paris so we're having a lot of cheese and picnic food dinners so we ended up with a lot of fruit left over, mostly grapes and berries and the like and while cooking something else I thought " Oh this will go to go to waste unless..." and I grabbed a pot, put the fruit in, covered the fruit with water, added sugar and salt, out a lid on and let it boil away while I cooked. After dinner I took the lid off and let it reduce into a paste before putting it into a smaller container in the fridge, boom. I had made mixed fruit jam for tomorrow's breakfast. And it was delicious.

post by: The Whelk at: 13:32 | 9 comments

Hmmmm. I think I just learned something new today. !)

posted by buzzman 01 January | 14:39

I have a hard enough time putting together a sandwich. The idea of making the raw ingredients is a little terrifying. Occasionally relatives will give us random mason jars of jam/jelly-like stuff as presents but I've always been too leery to actually eat them.

posted by octothorpe 01 January | 15:05

Occasionally relatives will give us random mason jars of jam/jelly-like stuff as presents but I've always been too leery to actually eat them.

Seriously? The best jams and jellies are always home-made. You're doing yourself a great disservice.

posted by Thorzdad 01 January | 16:37

Meh, who knows what's in there.

posted by octothorpe 01 January | 20:08

I swear you have some genius chef gene. That was brilliant. You should pitch a show called "clean out your fridge" where you invade, find wildly disparate ingredients and make a gourmet dinner.

posted by lysdexic 01 January | 20:09

btw, what's the salt for?

posted by lysdexic 01 January | 21:09

You should pitch a show called "clean out your fridge" where you invade, find wildly disparate ingredients and make a gourmet dinner.

There actually used to be a tv show sort of like that. They'd bring a chef to a random person's home and the chef had to make a gourmet dinner with whatever was in the house. The results were...variable.

posted by Thorzdad 01 January | 21:13

You made a compote. Bonus points, it's authentically French.

I just want to go on record as happily accepting and eating any unwanted gifted homemade jams and jellies.

On the radio show The Splendid Table, there's a "clean out your fridge" challenge called Stump the Cook. The call-in person lists what they have - any 3-5 ingredients - and the host figures out something to make with it, plus salt, pepper, some kind of fat, and one other random ingredient of her choice that the person actually has. The judge is always a food celebrity of some kind or other.

posted by Miko 01 January | 22:23

Yaaay! Compotes!

posted by The Whelk 02 January | 01:39

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