I can’t believe it.  We’re halfway through our second jar of my Cousins’ homemade jam.  The first jar we finished was his raspberry jam what a heavenly delight!  This one is sour cherry-raspberry and all I can say is wow.  I’m sorely tempted to open all the others to taste them but I will restrain myself and go one at a time.  I’m not certain as to which one we’ll try after this jar is empty.

     We have a number of choices.  There’s the blueberry, the strawberry, the strawberry rhubarb, and sour cherry sitting in the cupboard waiting for us to dive in.  My cousin and his daughter make tons of jams for the family every year.  Another cousin makes a wonderful salsa.

     I’ve also been hoarding a jar of my Aunts’ tomato relish—it’s my last jar. 

     I’m sorry to say that I haven’t done any canning in several years.  I used to make this wonderful tomato pear chutney, a port wine jelly, an apple ginger jelly, and a jalapeño jelly.  Dear Hubby misses the jalapeño jelly most of all.  I quit canning when my dishwasher died, it was a portable, and we never replaced it because it took up too much room.  It had a sterilizing cycle that I used to sterilize all my jars, lids, and rings.  It’s too time consuming and too much work without it.