Lazy Early Autumn Days
I have been playing on the Nintendo Wii for the last 8 hours with only the odd brief hiatus for a toilet break or to eat, so my hand has now formed some sort of claw shape making typing some what challenging. I have to admit I have had a pretty unproductive day, although I was up at 8am which is unusual for me at the weekend, so I felt I had to redeem myself and tell you about the chutney I made with my abysmal tomato crop this year.
I harvested them a couple of weeks ago because the weather was so appalling that the plants were starting to die. I looked up a recipe for green tomato chutney and found this one. I pretty much followed it to the letter but, incapable as I am at sticking to a recipe, I substituted some of the caster sugar for dark muscovado. The result was a lovely sweet and spicy chutney that doesn’t need much maturing, so we have been having it spread on some oven warmed ciabatta with delicious pork sausages.
There is nothing better to ease you into autumn’s colder days than chutney and of course my amazingly cosy new slippers.
Tags: Autumn, chutney, comfy slippers, food, green tomatoes, lazy, muscovado sugar, Nintendo Wii, picture, recipe, summer
September 21st, 2008 at 6:52 pm
I love green tomatoes, especially pickled. Never tried them in a chutney though.
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Ooooh, yum - that looks nice. The chutney, that is. I’m saying nothing about the slippers…