So one of the best things about going home, other than of course seeing my darling parents(loving you family) ;) , is raiding my mom's cupboard for all her homemade jam. My mother's yard is filled with a myriad of fruit from blackberry bushes to cherry trees she does have quite the variety...she even has a pear tree. My mother and I share a love for so very few things. When my mother shops for me she always tells me that if it physically repulses her she knows it must be something I like. :) This is how she has shopped for me for years, it is in her defense, a system that seems to work quite well. ;) But when it comes to food we do share a quite a few loves...nutmeg being one of them. Nutmeg is both my mother and I's favorite spice. I use it in so many things, both savory and sweet. I feel it is highly underused. So in my mother's experimenting in jam making she decided to add nutmeg to her pear jam one year, and oh my, was that a good choice. So whenever I am home I either … [Read more...]