Seasonal jam from V Smiley Preserves in New Haven, VT. Sweetened with honey. Mildly sweet and perfect with your favorite loaf of bread, mixed into yogurt, or paired with cheeses.

ARONIA BLUEBERRY VANILLA: Toast's best friend. Eaten off the spoon, you think, yes, tastes bright with lemon and blueberry, slightly tannic from the superfood Aronia Berry (from Sayre Fields in Hinesburg) and sweetly aromatic with vanilla bean. Then you put it on crepes, pancakes and any other food where you also break out the salted butter and this sleeper turns into a star. Out of the jar, this preserve behaves like a jelly on the spoon. Blueberries and Aronia are loaded with pectin so they make for a stiff set. The preserve spreads like a jam.

Ingredients: wild/organic blueberries, honey, lemon juice, organic aronia berry, vanilla extract/bean. 

STRAWBERRY BLACK CURRANT ROSEMARY: Ever-bearing strawberries with blackcurrants and V Smiley's rosemary. Reminiscent of early August evenings, eating al fresco, a pile of biscuits, a puff of whipped cream, a dollop of this jam and a few fresh berries from the farmers market. This is a great flavor for nutty, hard cheeses like aged sheep milk and cheddars.

Ingredients: organic/no spray strawberry, blackcurrant, honey, lemon juice, rosemary.

RHUBARB CHERRY EVERGREEN TIP: Rich, thick and tangy rhubarb jam infused with spruce and pine tips from the trees' spring growth. The evergreen tips give a green and bright perfume to the flavor. The rhubarb comes from V Smiley's farm, Lil To Do, and evergreen tips are foraged in New Haven. The dried sour cherries and plums are organic. Wonderful cheese pairing preserve, this is also one that I'm guilty of eating straight from the jar.

Ingredients: rhubarb, honey, dried organic sour cherries, lemon juice, dried organic plums, evergreen tips.