Ramesh Nyberg's Real Estate Blog

I had an interesting weekend. I was fighting off a cold all week (still am, actually) and so on Saturday I really needed to get out of the house and do something different. You know those little cherry-like fruit that grow on bushes all over South Florida..they look like little pumpkins, and they are red when they are ripe? Well, they are called Surinam Cherries. We have an entire hedge of them along our back fence, and another bush near the patio. I've never seen so many ripe fruit on the bush. I kind of grew up on these things. So Linnea and I picked a whole mess of them.. filling up two large bowls. I ate at least twenty of them that night, but I had always wondered, "what kind of jam would this fruit make?"

Ok, I'll spare you all the details. I made jam Sunday. I've never made jam in my life. In fact, my cooking experience is limited to bbq, the occasional curry, and my annual holiday pecan pies. I Googled up a recipe for making jam, and by Sunday evening, I had three full jars of Surinam Cherry Jam, or Surinam Jam, if you want to get poetic. It is, officially, GOOD. I had some on my toast this morning, and I really liked it. Both my son and my wife tried it and gave it high marks. Linnea, though she had fun making it, wouldn't touch the stuff.

The next day, a customer called me and ended up writing an offer on a property. So, making jam obviously has a postive effect on business.