As it gets colder and colder every day, I think we need some extra calories in our food... Especially in the morning, before we hit the road, we need a rich breakfast. Toasted bread with butter and jam is a quick and delicious solution, particularly when it comes to homemade jam. There is always homemade jam in our home! I use any kind of seasonal fruit, when I have plenty of it! I made strawberry jam and fig jam in the summer and when my husband brought me quinces from his farm the other day, I just knew what to do with them. I use only wild(organic) fruits for my jams and that makes them even more tasty and flavored. I'll post you my recipes with pictures some day, when I'll find the time.
Quince jam (or quince "spoon sweet", as we use to call it here in Greece) is far my most favorite jam ever! My aunt Niki used to make it when I was a kid and I love it since then. Quince jam can be eaten on bread, for breakfast, as a light dessert, or it can follow our famous greek coffee and is always served (as all spoon sweets) with a glass of cold water beside. My aunt Niki (mom's older sister, so much alive) and my dearest mom (not with us any more, but every moment in our hearts, as long as we live...) created so many sweet masterpieces in their kitchens! I think I inherited the charisma, because I also love making sweet things in my kitchen and most of them, as friends and relatives say, are really great! I remember me reading cookbooks since I was a kid, so charmed by the limitless variety of the foods and sweets a human can make! I've spent hours in the kitchen helping mom, especially holiday seasons, passing her this or that, stiring, decorating...All that was so magical to me, I have so many memories I could talk for hours...
So, I made quince jam Friday night (thank God, my husband gave me a helping hand, you see, you need muscles to grade the quinces...) and Saturday night I made a chocolate pecan pie for Sunday's lunch at mother's in law. I think my pie was a success and I'll definitely make it again, a dessert classic!
After a sweet weekend may the sweetest week begin.... wish you all the best! Love you, xoxo, Elena
