5-Minute Strawberry Jam

Written by Rondi Hillstrom Davis


Nothing tastes better than fresh picked strawberries. For many people, making homemade jams and jellies conjures up memories of grandmother inrepparttar kitchen preparing bushels of fruit, stirring and straining, and sterilizing jars. Actually, nothing could be simpler. The key to making jam is small batches. Do not doublerepparttar 111123 recipe. The jam will not set up. This strawberry jam keeps inrepparttar 111124 refrigerator for up to 3 weeks. But, we’ve never been able to keep it around that long! It’s also great as an ice cream topping.

Try this quick and easy recipe with your kids. It makes a great Mother’s Day present for family and friends. And, if you’re lucky, they may even save some for you.

Ingredients 1-pint strawberries, hulled and sliced 2-tablespoons fruit pectin ½ teaspoon butter 1-cup sugar 2 8-ounce jelly jars

Directions 1. In a medium sized bowl, crushrepparttar 111125 strawberries with a potato masher 2. In a skillet, combinerepparttar 111126 crushed strawberries, pectin, and butter. 3. Stirring constantly, cook over medium-high heat, untilrepparttar 111127 mixture boils. 4. Addrepparttar 111128 sugar and bring to a boil. Boil for 1 minute and remove fromrepparttar 111129 heat. 5. Pourrepparttar 111130 jam intorepparttar 111131 jars. Seal. Refrigerate untilrepparttar 111132 jam is set, approximately 6 hours. Keep jam refrigerated. It will keep for up to 3 weeks.

The Comedy-Clip Relationship

Written by Stanley J. Leffew


Have you noticed it?

Watch television programming on any given night, and you receive comedy clips from up-and-coming episodes of popular comedy sitcoms.

Ray Romano slyly puts down his wife's cooking while his dad belittles his mom inrepparttar name of humor and a few laughs. Doug makes glib and quirky remarks for laughs to his buddies about his wife's hair on King of Queens.

Now, I love to laugh as much asrepparttar 111122 next person. I enjoy living life with lightheartedness. I often think we just need to lighten up a little bit and enjoy life more.

But not when it comes to using my wife as a comic clip for someone else's humorous moment. I value her more than that.

The very person who trusts me more than anyone should not suffer because of me. Have you ever seen it?

Have you ever watchedrepparttar 111123 words of humor woundrepparttar 111124 heart of another in a relationship? Have you ever noticedrepparttar 111125 wince of pain asrepparttar 111126 "laughter" dagger finds its mark? Sure, they're smiling, butrepparttar 111127 smile doesn't quite go allrepparttar 111128 way torepparttar 111129 eyes.

I have seen it many times, and it's not a pretty sight.

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