What’s the Mission?
After making my strawberry freezer jam, our neighbor (a young, single lady) came over with two more bags of strawberries! She also gave us some strawberry plants, as hers are spreading too far. I decided to try the Small Batch Strawberry Jam recipe that I’d seen at Cooking Up a Story, and made three jars [...]
You want to start preserving? This is, like, the easiest thing ever. Seriously. Even easier than applesauce (well, at least for me, because I don’t have a food mill). What you need: Four one-pint containers of strawberries, 1 1/2 cups sugar (or sugar substitute), 1 envelope Ball No-Cook Freezer Jam Fruit Pectin (may also be [...]
Have you read Your Brain On Computers, from the New York Times? The article details the lives of a family that’s having trouble with heavy technology use, perhaps an Internet addiction. My husband often accuses me of being addicted to the Internet, and sometimes, when I stay up too late doing pretty much nothing, I [...]
