One thing I enjoyed when I was living in England was the harvesting of fruits in the farms. As soon as we heard that we could go to harvest strawberries we prepare to travel some miles to the countryside. We bought some baskets of them at low prices to make marmalade to store for the entire year, apart from the fact that we could eat all we desired during the harvesting.

In Venezuela, we don't have this kind of farms where you can go and buy some earth products. Some people sell cheese, eggs and meat products in their farms at affordable prices, but they are too far from the cities. In this country we have open markets where we can buy not at good prices very early in the morning, but they are the best products.

When forenoon is decading the traders start tendering their left products because they have to go back home, and usually they come from far places. This traders come in heavy trucks full of products say watermelons, pineapples, plantains, tomatoes, onions etc. They prefer to offer them at a low price than to take them back home because there is the risk of loosing the products.

I go to this places to find low prices, and you have the opportunity to buy a lot for less money. I found an offer of pineapples to make marmalade. This product is expensive and you need about 1 pineapple to make a jar of marmalade, and if you want to store for the entire year you need to spend a big quantity of money. I am glad I could buy at a good price in this pandemic times when everyone in this country is speculating with prices.

This marmalade is delicious and very simple. I never use spices for pineapple because this fruit is very tasty.

Ingredients:

• 4 pineapples
• 500 grams of sugar
• 4 jars sterilized
• all the utensils you need to handle the jars

Preparation:

• peel the pineapples
• cut in 4 parts and remove the pineapple heart
• grate the pineapples using a manual grater
• place the pineapples in a saucepan
• add the sugar
• cook till it forms a sirop
• don't add water

You can eat it with bread and butter. I like to eat it with roasted pork. If you think that pineapples are too expensive for you, you can mix it with squash, its flavour doesn't change.