Woohoo, I won something!

It's a book! Check out Spades and Spoons.
Thanks Paola!

Plum jam

Yesterday I made up a batch of plum jam. I bought the plums locally from a lady up the road who sells them by the roadside every summer. Sorry I didn't get a photo of plums prior to making the jam, but the skins and flesh were a deep purple colour.

Our trees are too young to produce fruit just yet, but I look forward to the day that they do!

I used the recipe out of my favourite cookbook, A New Zealand Country Harvest Cookbook, by Gilian Painter:

Lots of lovely plum jam

I think this recipe is particularly good as by counting the plums prior to cooking and then the stones as you boil up the jam, you can be confident that you won't crunch on a stone when you eat it!
The jam set very well and tastes delicious.

Peaches to die for!

Peach 'Blackboy'

Today we enjoyed the first peach from one of our 'Blackboy' trees. If you're not familiar with this variety, I can assure you it tastes as good as it looks! Hopefully we'll enjoy many more.

This was definitely on my mind today (see Rhonda's blog for this regular post).