Jammin

Here I am chatting to Alessio the guy I buy my daily fruit and veg from. Strange as it may seem to all you living in the more temperate part of the world, i.e. NORTH, strawberry season is over in Italy. He is making me an offer I cannot refuse - I couldn't resist that line - 3 flats of super ripe strawberrys for only 10 euro. How could I say no? I thought of all those jars I have been saving that no one seems to want. I will put them to use. 

Back to trash talkin I am adding this photo of all the trash the market produced yesterday. This is a daily market - Monday - Saturday. Just think of how it must pile up on a weekly basis at whatever landfill it goes to. I know I mentioned it way back when I first started blogging, but it deserves to said once more, this all gets THROWN AWAY!
Anyway. After I got my strawberries home, thank you Sam for carrying them, I set out to hull clean and boil away. I have never made jam before but that didn't stop me. After about a couple of hours of labor I had over 20 jars of jam! I will confess that some batches set better than others... but hey, you have to start somewhere.