presidential jam

look who's famous now, mom and dad.
the President of Mexico loves my jam.
(ok, i haven't officially heard yet if Presidente Calderon loves it or not, but i am sure he and his lovely wife both will. i sent my two best flavors: apricot and blackberry!)

and just how will the Presidente get my jam? in a lovely gift basket, from his wife's intern, my niece melina, daughter of my brother in law jeff (the undersecretary of agriculture of mexico) and michelle. (michelle of course is a fabulous jam maker and canner but happens to be currently remodeling her dream kitchen and --lucky for me, because this may be my only taste of fame-- had no jam to send, per nina's request, so asked me for some to help nina out.) i used some squares of my cutest amy butler fabric and even dug out my dusty old gluegun to secure the little bows, and i translated apricot jam and blackberry jam into spanish, which was more work than i thought, because is it mermelada de chabacano or mermelada chabacano and had to call someone, and dictionaries were involved, and then i had to find the perfect ribbon, write the tags fifteen times each, and anyhoo. whew.

if you had asked me when i was slaving over my bottles of apricot and blackberry jam if i thought any world leaders would be enjoying it later, i would have laughed. hard!
now i can't help but dream of becoming the national jam-maker or something.

enjoy, Presidente and first lady!

find my presidential apricot jam recipe here. of course i changed the name!