Calamondin Marmalade on Thursday

Calamondin Marmalade 

On Thursday, I decided to make a small batch of calamondin marmalade with the fruit I picked off the branches that were cut on Wednesday.  I meant to take a picture of the calamondin fruits, but, I forgot to.  But, here is a picture of some calamondins that I took a few years ago when I made a batch of calamondin marmalade:

Calamondin Fruit (picture from 2021)

I had far fewer fruit, this time.  There were about 40 fruit and most of them were fairly small.  By the time I seeded them and sliced them up, there was about one and a half cups of the prepared fruit.  Today's batch of fruit wasn't very juicy and I added 1 1/2 cups water and 3 cups of sugar and brought it all to a boil and stirred the mixture until it reached a setting point.  I was able to get three half pint jars of the marmalade (at least one of which will be given as a gift).

There was a little bit leftover, which I put into a small bowl:

Just a bit extra marmalade

Later, I warmed up some frozen meat balls and the little bit of extra marmalade made a nice glaze for them.  Breakfast had been oatmeal and the meat balls were lunch, with some leftover ramen noodles.  For dinner, I cooked a half a bag of frozen General Tso's chicken that I had in the freezer long with some broccoli and we had that with leftover rice and cucumber salad.

I also cooked the dhal curry I had been planning to make and froze most of it for the almsgiving.  I put the rest of it in the fridge to have over the next couple of days.  

I called friend R in the evening to check on her and we had a nice chat.  I also called Dancer's vet clinic and made an appointment for his arthritis injection for Saturday morning.  

In between making marmalade, cooking, and doing some housecleaning, I crocheted.  Borders take me a long time to crochet!  While I crocheted, I watched some news and online videos.

On Wednesday, I was grateful for:

- Calamondin from the garden and three jars of marmalade
- Another warm day of 80F
- Texts, emails, and phone calls with family and friends

- Working appliances
- What I was able to accomplish

Thursday's joyful activities included crocheting and making marmalade to preserve the garden bounty.

Plans for Friday include making some gifts and getting the living room decorated for Christmas.

How was your Thursday?  What are your plans for Friday?