I remember my mother’s goody bag very well when she came to see me in the last two group homes I was in. Again I look back on these bitter sweet memories because this marmalade that was store bought was in her bag. She used to bring it for me and it was my own private stock I was not going to share with anyone.
It is both spicy and sweet. I love those combos very much because they are so great that it made my taste buds on my tongue dance. Every time Mutti came it was in her bag along with some new books with smoked fish and other goodies I liked.
I was in the system because my pos of my father threw me away because of that she devil that split my parents up. The decided to make my oldest daughter to hate my guts by spoon feeding poisonous lies about me that isn’t true. I have been through hell and back many times over and I survived by the grace of Allah.
My oldest daughter’s becoming a mother did not improve at all. She is still as selfish as ever and I hope inshallah that she does not spread that poison to my grand kids. They do not deserve to be used as a pawn against me. My husband and I was planning on taking a trip to Milwaukee to go and see the baby and she told my husband no. I wanted to hear it out of the horses mouth and talk to her myself. So I called the hospital to check and see how the baby was doing and she comes up with a bunch of mess.
I am hurt very badly because of this. What she did is lower then low by keeping stuff going. So forget it she better not call me any more asking me for anything. I know she is going to use those kids as a weapon to get to me just like Miss thing that broke up my parents the career homewrecker did with her. My oldest thought it is cute now to emotionally blackmail me and still thinks so to this day.
She even made a crank phone call to me calling me very bad names and this was not the first time she did this. Then she came before she got pregnant with my grandson and lies her butt off on social media saying she wishes she was close to me her mother.
That is bullshit!!!!!!!!!!! She is a damned liar just putting on a good show and whoever talks to her do not let her kid you because she has a mask she is wearing and she is going to let is slip someday.
If my mother was still with me, she would put my oldest daughter in her place and I don’t think any of my friends would talk to her for long either. Because of the stuff she posts and everything gets back to me. So if my oldest daughter dare come and read my blog thinking she is going to get a recipe, she is going to have this hitting her in her face before she even gets a chance. Ok the rant is over I am heartbroken over the fact that she is going to make totally innocent people suffer because of her irresponsibility.
There is my mother’s friend that is not happy with her actions either. Back to my ginger marmalade, sorry I got sidetracked because I had to get some stuff off of my chest. One thing about abuse survivors have an extra sixth sense. Most of us do because it is apart of survival. I haven’t had this beyond delicious ginger marmalade in eons and couldn’t find it anywhere.
I do not know where my mother got it from. I didn’t ask. All I know is how delicious this is. This is my favorite besides fish of course.
Time to make ginger marmalade. I used 1 medium piece of ginger. I washed and cut it and there was no sense to peel it to me. Since it is a marmalade the peel from the ginger stayed on and remained unpeeled. I cut it in to very tiny pieces and placed it in a sauce pan and added 1/4 cup of water and 5 handfuls of turbinano sugar. I cut and added 3 apples in tiny pieces. It can be any type and any color apple. I had golden delicious on hand so I used that.
I added 3 each of both orange and grapefruit peels. I put it on the stove to boil on medium high until the apples got soft then after it was soft and started to become mushy I turned it off and used my immersion blender. It is also known as a stick blender and works very well for making sauces, jams, chutneys and etc. After I pureed the hot liquid, I turned the stove back on and set the burner at low. At this point the marmalade starts to thicken and becomes delicious.
The reason why I added apples to the ginger is because that there is nothing to the ginger to make its own pectin. So apples was the best source and it works every time . The peels from the ginger grapefruit and orange gave it more flavor and added pizzazz.
I have to say I am impressed with the turbinao sugar too that it works so well even though it takes a few minutes longer to dissolve, but it works just fine.
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