Strawberry jam

I was cleaning out my freezer ready for my Christmas  dinner shopping  and thought  id have a bit of a use it up challenge. I found 5 punnets of strawberries, some fish fillets of a few varieties and some brioche bread, so first up the fish was for dinner tonight with mashed potatos and the brioche will be french toast and bread and butter pudding for the weekend and lastly the strawberries will be slow cooker strawberry  jam which i haven't  made befor , traditional  method yes but not in the slow cooker, but im tired so experiment i will.. so in the slow cooker i added the 1200grams of strawberries, 1 cup of water ,juice of half a lemon and 3 cups of sugar and set it on auto. Hopefully  in the morning i have jam and not a burnt or sloppy mess.

Berries from the freezer

Hulled berries sugar and lemon juice

After 16 hours on low in the slow cooker

The finished product, 6 jars.

BACK TO THE START

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!.
Wow that 2017 flew by, I cant believe its been just over a year since my last post. I know now why some bloggers just vanish, they most likely still have many wonderful events to share, but there are also some other moments that leave us speechless and unable to feel enough joy to share the good. Everything and stage  in life has a season, last year was a bit of a winter to me, and id rather not go there, but it ended on a few high if not exhausting notes.
   So my post heading is exactly how I want to start and continue my year, I want to get back to what delights me and what I m good at and also learn lots of new things, and most of all how to roll with punches a little better and to finally tackle how and when to say yes and no better. I hope your year is a great one and I hope mine is too. x

My 3 girls and I on my 54th birthday