It all started with me reading this blog entry by Coco & me, one of my favourite blog ever that I discovered not so long ago, to my utter delight... Because there are thousands of blogs out there, and when you happen to land on a lovely one like this... it is serendipitous! (I must admit, that if perchance one happen to 'discover' my ho-hum blog, one would not get too excited). Let me share another that is a great inspiring read : French Laundry at Home.
Anyway so I decided that if Christine Ferber's jams are so good, and France is so far... I must make my own. I found Mes Confitures by Christine Ferber at Kinokuniya, I gasped when I saw the price: nineteen ninety five... I know!! What a steal eh ?
Here are some photographic evidence of my first batch ever : Apricot and Vanilla.
Never really impressed by apricots, I was willing to give it a go as they were a plenty and looked beautiful with pink rosy hue.
One day and about half a kilo of sugar later.
Pardon me to gloat, consistency aside I do think it looks quite all right...
I haven't yet opened my jar, I made a batch of 4 and sold 3 on a charity drive for the flood victim. One clientele said that the jam is too runny. Oups! But I'm only jam queen in training after all.
