Triple Berry Threat Jam!

  So as you saw in my previous post my mom and I had a "canning" day and one of the concoctions we came up with that turned out amazing is something we named Triple Berry Threat! It's so yummy!!!

  My youngest sister helped with this one and I even let her snap a few photos. :-)

So start out with two quarts of ripe strawberries, hulled. Two pints blackberries and one pint blueberries. 

Add that to your pan and turn to medium heat. Add 1/2 cup of lemon juice. 

Turning on the heat will help when we use our immersion blender. 

    So make sure you have the heat on and add six, yes six, cups of sugar. Trust me this turned out amazing! 

   So now that we've added a tiny bit of sugar we will start to blend it up with the immersion blender. Since the heat was on and started heating up the berries it will be a lot easier to blend up. 

  Here's my baby sister helping mom blend away. 

  Blend blend blend away!

   Ok now add a little pat of butter to keep it from foaming up when you bring it to a boil. 

   Bring to a boil for 10-15 minutes so it reduces a little. 

   Add 2 packages of liquid pectin and let boil an additional 5 minutes. 

Now it's time to put it in the cute jars mom had. 

 

   Now water bath for 10 minutes! 

   See how adorable these jars are?!? 

Our "Triple Berry Threat Jam" turned out so good that we have been using it for anything we can think of. 

Here's is a picture my mom text me tonight. It's Greek yogurt with pecans and some TBT Jam heated up a tad to thin out. 

   Guess how we used it the morning after we made it?? Yep. Pancakes!!! We just heated our TBT Jam up a little so it was more "syrup-like". 

My sister sent me a picture the other day of our TBT Jam on cheesecake! Needless to say we may be a little addicted to it. :-) 

And of course we can't forget the most obvious reason to use it! On toast or English muffin! 

I hope you guys try this out! It is so delicious and I hope you all enjoyed this post. Make sure if you don't have enough to fill a jar all the way to just stick it in the fridge. You can cut this recipe down to just make a jar or two and stick it in the fridge without having to water bath it. Just make sure you keep it in the fridge not in your pantry. Same with jars that don't end up sealing. Put them in your fridge. The jars that do seal should keep in your pantry for about a year. Just make sure and follow all canning safety tips and instructions. You wouldn't believe how easy canning your own stuff is.  :-)

Triple Berry Threat Jam: yielded about 6 pints

2 quarts strawberries

2 pints blackberries

1 pint blueberries

1/2 cup lemon juice

6 cups sugar

2 packages liquid pectin 

A pat of butter (optional) 

Now onto some news about my blog. I've decided to only take pictures and post with my iphone. I know this may sound a little crazy but I am no photographer and when I tried using my camera to take pictures they turned out awful. :-)

Also my husband and I have pretty odd work schedules so I do a lot of my cooking after dark which means I don't have a lot of natural light to work with. All that being said my lighting and pictures may not be top notch but I figured since I have this blog to share my love and passion for cooking it shouldn't matter. To my followers, if there's any of you out there, I hope you will find my blog as enjoyable as any other. Thank you to anyone who reads my blog and I have a lot more to come. I've kind of backed myself up on posts I need to write so stayed tuned!!! 

:-)