In the beginning…the story of Carrots

It all started one rainy Sunday afternoon last spring, with a large bag of carrots. They were lovely, fresh and crunchy and reminded me of having a plateful of grated carrots sprinkled with sugar as a snack when I was a child. So I grated some carrots...

That afternoon I made three brand new jams using the spices I had in my kitchen: Ginger Carrot with Lemongrass, Coriander Carrot Jam with Chilli, and Carrot, Cardamom and Chilli one. Later, when Chris’s Victoria plum tree produced a massive crop, and I made a few batches of plum jam, the Love Jam Kitchen was born…