Lady Marmalade

One of the things I miss the most from our home back in Macon are our two pecan trees. Any of you out there who bake will know those trees might have well been dropping gold on our lawn, not pecans. Those things can easily cost you eight bucks for a half pound bag at the grocery which you can barely bake anything with! I truly enjoyed cooking with these yummy nuts not only because they were delicious, and man they were, but because they came from my very own front yard. I enjoyed collecting them and shelling them and Bella enjoyed batting a few strays around the house as well.


Well, since we moved to New Orleans we were surprised and happy to find a lime tree in our front yard. I was making key lime pie, margaritas, and all sorts of lime sauces all summer until slowly our limes weren't really limes anymore. As the weeks went by these little fruits became brighter and brighter in color on the inside. They also tasted sweeter too! My "limeade" no longer needed a full cup of sugar and we weren't quite sure what exactly it was growing in our front yard anymore.

As the summer turned to fall the outside of our "limes" slowly started to turn as well to a soft orange color. That's when it became official that we no longer had some strange strand of limes on our hands, we have Louisiana SATSUMAs! These are a small Japanese strand of oranges that have been growing in New Orleans since the 18th century when they were brought here by Jesuits from Asia.

We slowly became unable to eat as many satsumas as our little tree could produce and for fear of loosing so many good oranges we decided to make Satsuma Marmalade!

Here are some pics of our fun times canning the satsumas. The jam hasn't set too well yet, but hopefully we'll be having satsuma marmalade on our Christmas morning biscuits!