the wonderful world of jam and tea (kittens)
blueberry and peach about to be jammed
#It’sTheJam
for several years I have been dabbling in the creation of jam. it became a serious act of therapy and healing after a breast cancer diagnosis in 2018. I am currently creating a collection of recipes with slightly strange and unique takes on the age old jam recipe. you can find many of my jam recipes for free by scrolling through the blog. more ways to eat jam, sweet and savory jam, jam cocktails all to come in the next few months while I experiment my way through the creation of a compilation to put out in the world.
#TeaKittens
I am lucky enough to have the love of 3 foster fail kittens. Because there are 3 we had a heck of a time figuring out names for them. We started with fire lizard names from Anne McCaffery Dragon Riders of Pern stories but no one could remember Talla, Tris and Kimi’s names so after a few weeks we named them after our favorite tea. We are a family who consumes a lot of tea. Lady Grey (who is black, I know) Chai and Jasmine are our inspiration and the primary reason I will be writing a Jam cook book and not creating actual jams for sale-there is just too much cat hair in my life. And it follows me everywhere. The tea kittens are also a huge inspiration to finding and using flowers and herbs from the garden as they are constantly reminding the garden is better than the house (except in winter)
jasmine in top basket, Lady in middle, Chai looking at us
my favorite way to eat, small bowls of many things
#FoodIsMedicine #EatMoreFlowers
too many times it has been said you are what you eat. through my adventures catering for local Seattle film sets, elaborate and fun themed dinner parties and jam making I have come to really believe food can and will make a difference to the health of you and the health of the planet. In my blog I will be sharing recipes and ideas and more. I actually have no idea what I will be sharing because this topic is vast and beautiful.
Also I think it’s time to eat more flowers so in instagram and the blog I will be sharing myself eating more flowers.
you can scroll through the blog to see Third Thursday dinner party and recipes, jam recipes and the odd random picture of an especially inspire meal I might might make. I try to keep things (besides the dinner parties) as easy as possible to recreate in our modern-super-busy-no-time-stressed-out-world