In this week's organic veg box we received a pound or so of Santa Rosa plums from Reedley, CA. I'm not much of a fan of fresh fruit, but the newsletter that the farm provides had a recipe for plum jam, so I thought I would give it a go. I had never made jam before so this was all unchartered territory for me. But it seemed quite straightforward: boil chopped plums with sugar, raisins, orange and lemon for 20 minutes or so, add some some chopped walnuts and voila! Sterilizing the jars was slightly more of a hassle than I imagined but not too bad. The trickiest part of the whole operation was when I was using one hand to try to take a picture with my cell phone of my other hand ladling jam into the jar. The result was almost two jars of jam (slightly less than I had imagined) and after 24 hours of standing still, we just had our first tasting. It tastes delicious and jam making may well be making a return appearance in our kitchen whenever we next receive a lot of fruit in our box.