Creative Uses for Jam and Salsa

  • Blend your favorite jam with milk, fresh fruit and yogurt
  • Serve jam on cream cheese and crackers
  • Use the jam as a glaze for pork or chicken; or add it to BBQ sauce 
  • Liven up cheesecake with a dollop of jam on top
  • Gently warm up jam to thin it and pour over ice cream
  • Stir into cottage cheese or yogurt
  • Serve some jam with sliced up fruit
  • Put a spoonful in a bowl of oatmeal
  • Add jam to vanilla or plain yogurt
  • Cover a wheel of brie cheese with puff pastry & bake
  • Stir jam into icing for a different kind of cake topping
  • Mix into pancake batter
  • Make a jam tart: fill individual pastry tartlets with jam, bake & serve with ice cream
  • Jammy Muffins: half fill muffin cups, spoon some jam over, then add batter on top and bake.
  • Use jam as a crepe filling
  • Add to your favorite smoothie
  • Mix jam with oil, vinegar and any spices & use as a sweet salad dressing (warm jam so it’s can blend)
  • Drizzle warmed-up jam over hot and spicy wings
  • Spread jam over chicken breasts or pork before removing from the grill or oven (you may want to warm the jam so it will drizzle better). Apply the last 2 minutes of cooking so it doesn’t burn.
  • Use salsa on meats, tacos or as a marinade – take a dollop or two, gently warm in a pan and drizzle over your protein