Comments on: Gooseberry goodness

By: Mairi @ Toast

Mairi @ Toast — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:18:35 +0000

Yes you must make the jam 🙂 That gooseberry jam looks absolutely gorgeous 🙂

By: Domestic Executive

Domestic Executive — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:04:27 +0000

In reply to Alli@peasepudding. I'm following the food chain of if can't grow your own buy local! Jam making weekend ahead.

By: Domestic Executive

Domestic Executive — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:01:41 +0000

In reply to Emma Galloway.

I’d find room for gooseberries in any garden having grown my own for the first time. Your Nana is right – aren’t they always!

By: Domestic Executive

Domestic Executive — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:00:10 +0000

In reply to milliemirepoix. Been on a buying frenzy and jam making is high on the agenda for the weekend!

By: milliemirepoix

milliemirepoix — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:29:36 +0000

Wow, you’re so lucky to have so many berries, even if you don’t have enough strawberries this year for jam! Love the colour of that gooseberry jam.

I’d pick B – buy some local strawberries and make the jam – because homemade is best! (er, most of the time.) But if you get sick of jam-making buying some locally wouldn’t be a bad idea either 🙂

By: Emma Galloway

Emma Galloway — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:25:46 +0000

Wow, my Nana would so love to live near you! I had never even seen gooseberries like this until she told me about them and how much she loved them as a child. I then bought a small (expensive) container of them for her, just so she could re-live her childhood fantasy. To actually grow them would be amazing. I grew up eating cape gooseberries (which I adore and also used to make jam out of, your’s looks wonderful!) and didn’t know they were even different to the ones you grow.
I’d buy some local strawberries and make your jam, you’ll be thankful in the middle of bleak NZ winter that you did 🙂

By: Alli@peasepudding

Alli@peasepudding — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:07:04 +0000

Im so jealous of your gooseberries, you don’t see them much and then as you you said very expensive if you do. i would buy local strawberries and make your own jam, With all this rain you are likely to pick them up cheap as they won’t hold long for retail and it supports the local growers.

By: Domestic Executive

Domestic Executive — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:00:59 +0000

In reply to Avalon. That's so funny Helen, I just read yesterday about Gooseberry and Mint Jelly and thought I'd try making some of that. Need to work out proportions as I only have a few berries left. Thanks for the suggestion.

By: Avalon

Avalon — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:48:06 +0000

Buy the strawberries and make the jam 🙂 If you didnt really love the baking and making side – I would go just buying the jam and have done with it – but you know you will really love the making bit 🙂

BTW – one of the best things I ever tasted with Gooseberries was from Moniack Winery – they made a stunning Gooseberry and Mint Jelly. If sugar wasnt an issue – I wouldnt have anything else on my roast lamb – its devine.