Let’s Can Some Jam!
We were running low on homemade jam, so we decided to spend a Saturday morning canning. Just for fun, we threw in some candied jalapenos too!#can some jam
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June 13, 2021
The bottle on the right is Pomegranate Soda, the left is Cranberry Pomegranate Soda
Pomegranate Soda
This year for Christmas we got a DrinkMate Sparkling Water and Soda Maker. Our children like soda, but we don’t really want them to have all that extra sugar. With this soda maker we can make our own soda and control the amount of sugar. This particular machine can carbonate any drink. What you make is limited only by your imagination.
Our children did take that a little far though. They were all spouting off things that we could use the soda maker for, and many of the ideas were bizarre. Our 10 year old had the oddest ideas. He wanted to carbonate gravy. I don’t know what he thought we could do with carbonated gravy though.
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