Comfort. Food.

[talktooloose]

A calmer day. Drizzle outside; home cooking inside. Snake made homemade cinnamon buns for breakfast -- a culinary first for him. I followed with dried tomato and basil pesto with the last of the garden's basil for lunch. Then we made four bottles of green tomato / apple chutney with the tomatos that never ripened.

The house is steamy, sweet and pickly. I'm going to write some charts for the musicians at tomorrow night's rehearsal.

I send out love and peace to my friends who are in turmoil.

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[goodall.livejournal.com]

I love those domestic Sunday afternoons.

If it's not a family secret, pass me that chutney recipe, would ya? :)

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

It's from the 1964 edition of the Joy of Cooking which I found in the garbage a few years ago. Assuming you already know about sterilizing jars, etc., here is the recipe:

Simmer until the fruit is tender:

1 seeded chopped lemon
1 skinned chopped clove garlic
5 cups firm peeled chopped apples or green tomatoes
2 1/4 cups brown sugar
1 1/2 cups seeded raisins
3 oz. chopped crystallized ginger, or 3/4 cup fresh ginger root
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
2 cups cider vinegar
(2 chopped red peppers, seeds and membranes removed - optional)

Put the chutney in sterile jars and seal them.