A glut of rhubarb? Make rhubarb ketchup

Rhubarb is the best thing to have in your garden - it grows what ever the weather and without your attention. When you've had your fill of rhubarb crumble make this lush ketchup. Mine looked mucky but tastes delicious!

The recipe I used can be found here. Play around with the flavours - add some chilli to spice it up. So easy to make.

Rhubarb & Vanilla jam

We have a gorgeous glut of rhurbarb on out lottie so I made jam using this recipe here from the BBC food website.

20 sticks of rhubarb, 4 split vanilla pods and 11 warmed jars filled with the sweet tasting jam. Mmmmm

Do you have a good pickle/jam recipe you like to use?

Happy days

Alli
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Chocolate olive oil cake - wheat -free and a paper cut icing sugar papercut!

I love this Nigella recipe for Chocolate Olive Oil cake and tarted it up with a dusting of icing sugar sprinkled over a giant paper cut.

I cut a circle of grease-proof paper the size of the cake, folded it & cut a design using the same ideas from the papercutting for the bird lanterns. 

The effect is rather good, if I do say so myself! Tastes lush too!

Festive feastie bits!

There is a score through most of the items on the list, and these little treats, made yesterday, packaged today, have been put in with Christmas pressies! Phew!


I started making these when my friend, Sophie, gave us some one Christmas.


I've use these two recipes - Fruity Christmas biscotti from the BBC Goodfood site and the decadent chocolate one, Cherry Chocolate Biscotti, from allrecipes.co.uk.

We had to test them -
hence the gaps!

All wrapped up and ready to go!

Happy baking!

Carrot Chutney...addictive M&S sarnies!

It's got a fridge life of one week...it'll be eaten by then!

A few weeks ago, whilst on our holiday, my son broke his arm (boo) and he spent 3 nights in hospital (they were all very lovely). He's recovered well, but I've been left with an addiction to carrot chutney with Wensleydale Cheese! Why? 


The hospital was near a Marks & Spencer store and they make a delicious sandwich - Wensleydale Cheese and Caramelised Carrot Chutney. To have a break,(no pun intended), I'd pop over to the store to get my lunch and a microwave dinner!


There's even a Facebook page for this sarnie!

Today I found a recipe for a carrot chutney and made some. It's delicious....now where's the cheese?

A recipe I found :

This will make one 8oz jar of chutney!

3 medium sized carrots (grated)

2tbsp olive oil

1 pinch salt

6 dessert spoons caster sugar

100 mls white wine vinegar

50 mls water

1. Heat the olive oil in a heavy bottomed pan over a low heat.

2. Add grated carrot to the pan and cook slowly until soft. Add pinch salt

3. Add sugar mix until disolved

4. Pour in vinegar and water

5. Bring mixture to the boil and cook quickly until all liquid has been absorbed

6. Pour into a sterilised jar and leave to cool (to sterilise an 8oz jar, pre heat oven to 150 degrees celcius, wash jar in soapy water and rinse, place jar and lid in heated oven for 15mins)

Once opened will keep in the fridge for up to one week.

Hope you like it!

Yoltan comment 17 http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=218360,

Enjoy....