Cooking for family´s birthdays or harvesting http://eibol.blogsome.com/2008/03/01/frutas-del-bosque-berries-currants/blackberries at home, every summer, are some of my cherished memories related to meals with loved ones.
Before the end of November, our garden in San Miguel, Argentina, becomes the most beautiful place I´ve ever been after getting up in a sunny morning, even a cloudy one, Ha! The green area of grass begins blurring the dried yellow holes on the ground. Trees are full with large green leaves and the blackberries, live hidden behind an old orange tree. They are ready sweetened to eat or to prepare my favourite and simple recipe. We have to collect them as they are not too read or too black. By combining sugar, this exotic fruit and pectin I get an exquisite jam which can be used on toasts, over delicious ice-creams, in cakes, and with many other desserts.
Basically, what I usually make is simply blackberry jam. The secret is to harvesting the fruit with the appropriate colour. The leaves are not particularly dangerous, but nevertheless they are not something you´d want to do every day. The sharp needle-shaped thorns annoy your hands and arms for two or three days. Anyway, making blackberry jam is more than gardening or cooking, it is having a good time at home. As soon as I have a big bowl of blackberries I´ll show you a good recipe. Be patient!
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