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The Best of California

Blue Chair Fruit — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:11:05 +0000

California is made for fruit lovers -- a long growing season, moderate temperatures through winter, and a brigade of farmers and gardeners committed to nurturing heirloom fruit varieties.

Here at Blue Chair Fruit, our greatest joy is celebrating California produce by taking fruit at the peak of its season and preserving it to enjoy throughout the year. And we want to share our favorite California flavors with you!

Our California Preserves 3-Pack contains one jar each of:

Olallieberry Jam, made from our favorite regional blackberries
Meyer Lemon-Blood Orange Marmalade, highlighting the unique flavor of Meyer lemons
Yvette's Plum Jam, our love song to our friend Yvette's perfect backyard plums

We hope you love these special California fruits as much as we do!

Marmalade Watch 11/18 + Thanksgiving News

Blue Chair Fruit — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:49:21 +0000

We have been having a great time at our farmers' markets these past few weeks, and are busy bringing on some fabulous new staff at our markets (new About Us profiles coming soon)! We are also loving Fall here at the Blue Chair Fruit kitchen, where we are in the process of making our Quince-Rose Geranium Marmalade and a pear and quince marmalade! Also in the works: a pear and dried fig conserve with rosemary and black pepper! We also just posted our phenomenally yummy Concord Grape & Vanilla Jam and our Plummy Meyer Lemon Marmalade - our very last early Fall preserves!

We will also be doing several jam and marmalade tastings around San Francisco and the East Bay over the next several days, in addition to our normal farmers' market schedule. We will be offering our special Thanksgiving and yuletide flavors, in addition to limited-quantity flavors. For details, please see our Where to Find Us page. We hope to see you soon!

Fruit Watch 11/2: Pears, Quinces and Crabapples

Blue Chair Fruit — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:10:16 +0000

We had a fantastic weekend up in Mendocino, and made sure to stop at The Apple Farm in Philo on the way! While there, we sampled a number of excellent varieties, and came home with some gorgeous Flemish Beauty pears, tiny red crabapples, and two types of quince. We also sampled several excellent apples, including Northern Spy, Sierra Beauty, Philo Gold, and Fuji. We love them all, and it's so fun to taste them side by side, because they are so different from each other! We can't wait to get going on some new flavors...