It's Saturday!

What a beautiful day it has been here in West Yorkshire!

First thing this morning I had to go to Halifax to pick up a parcel and so I called into a couple of charity shops and picked up a bargain or two while I was there. Two 100% wool scarves in beautiful stripes of colour (which went straight into the washing machine to be felted) and four pretty napkins.

Then it was home and into the greenhouse to pot up Hyacinths and Miniature Iris into containers in the hope of things to come next spring.
I have been on the look out for a large blue and white china serving bowl to plant mini iris in but not found one as yet. Will have to be next year now.

Collete from Poppy cottage asked for the recipe for Green Tomato chutney mentioned in last post (I will be making more tomorrow!) so here it is.


It is from Good Housekeeping 'Preserves' by Joanna Farrow.

450g cooking apples, peeled, cored and minced

225g onions, skinned and minced

1.4 kg green tomatoes thinly sliced

225g sultanas

225g demerara sugar

2 level tsp salt

450ml malt vinegar

4 small pieces of root ginger

1/2 level tsp cayenne pepper

1 level tsp mustard powder

Place all the ingredients into a preserving pan or large, heavy based sauce-pan. Bring to the boil, reduce the heat and simmer gently for about 2 hours, stirring occasionally, until the ingredients are tender and reduced to a thick pulpy consistency. Remove the ginger pieces.

spoon into sterilised jars, cover and seal.

I leave mine for a while before eating so it gets less vinegary.

I sent off for a few bits from Mouse at Mousenotebook they arrived beautifully wrapped. Another bag for my collection. Also three little birds and a Bear-Cat you can see peeping out of the bag she sent. All are made with such care and detail.

Diane over at Heartshaped asked in her latest post if we have had any 'failures' this year? Well I have to say my beans turned out rubbish, my radish went to seed and my kale was ate by slugs!

THANK YOU if you have voted for me at the Dorset cereals little blog awards (link at top of my page-hint, hint!) I now have four votes so thankyou!!!! (I know Tracey , Diane and Michela have!)
Look out for this called 'Talking Threads, coming to SKY in October, might be worth watching.

Pop over to Hook and Scumble there is a brill giveaway if you would like crochet or would like to learn how to crochet