Before the doggy drugs kick in
I’ll get over this soon
Cus is off to his winter home
Easy Tomato Chutney Recipe
The frost got the vast majority of our tomatoes but between me and our neighbours we managed to salvage a fair few green ones and ripen them on the window sill. Every year in living memory my folks have made chutney from the tomatoes in Dad’s greenhouse so I asked Mum for the recipe and she sent the email below. Thanks Mum! We tasted the chutney last night, and it was by all accounts delicious and having a house full of boiling vinegar vapours on Friday afternoon fair took me right back to KSM… Without further cliché, below’s mum’s guide to how to make your own:
Hi Gwyn,
Here is a quick tomato chutney recipe. As long as you use a reasonable amt of sugar and vinegar, you can chuck in anything that you have surplus/ handy.
Red tomato Chutney.
- 5lbs of ripe tomatoes
- 1 lb onions
- 3 cloves garlic
- 2 tsps salt and of paprika
- 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- 2 tsps crushed mustard seed
- 0.5 lbs of sugar
- 0.5 litre white vinegar
Peel toms by plunging in boiling water for a few mins, then remove skins. I don’t bother though. Chop roughly.
Put in large saucepan with chopped onions, garlic and a little vinegar.
Cook slowly till onions are soft.
Add all other ingredients and cook till chutney is thick and well blended.Could take a few hours, 2?
Bottle into clean, dry, jars and cover. Mixture can be hot or cold.
Can add apples, sultanas, peppers, chilis, mustard or use malt ( brown Welsh) vinegar or use brown muscovado / demerara sugar. Whatever you have works. Add ginger and other spices for apple chutney. Try curry powder/ paste.
Have fun.
Love Mum xxx
I tried the ginger and curry paste variations and didn’t have any mustard seed. Also I used cider vinegar instead of white vinegar. Utah is famous for its canning (something to do with Mormon apocalypse ‘hard times’ preparedness) so I tried a fancy method that involves special jars and boiling them in water to seal them. In theory this will stop it going mouldy for a year or so. Anyroad, comment if you have any questions about the above.
City Creek Canyon Trees
Dear jeebus, SLC and its surroundings doesn’t half look pretty in the snow. Just going to the local supermarket to pick up dog food is a joy if you time the sun/weather right… Here’s some trees in a rare second post in the same week. Amazing what can be achieved with an extra hour.
ps. Thanks for the comments at Flickr. I’ll be answering them properly v. soon. Honest
Naturaleza Congelada
First proper snowfall in Sugar House, just a few inches overnight, but enough to make for a lovely walk through the neighbourhood with young Atticus snapping the frozen remains of autumn. Clocks go back tonight in North’merica, y’all, and my snowshoes should be arriving from ebay any moment…
One man and his dog
Soldier Hollow Sheepdog Trials 2011. The weather’s taken a turn for the perfect round here of late. Still practising with the time lapse camera, hopefully should be capturing the horse chestnut tree outside’s transition.
Fin del Verano en Ojos de Pez
Just got back from another fantastic trip back home to the UK. I think I managed to miss the worst excesses of the Utahn summer though it’s still hitting 90°F+, whatever that is in real money, on a regular basis.
Of course, Atticus is pretty resilient to whatever temperatures come our way but our walks tend to be around sunset now. These here fisheye shots are from a brief walk round the neighbourhood yesterday evening.
The next post might well be a timelapse video. I just ordered this gadget and can’t wait to test drive it… Hasta pronto y’all!
Wasatch Mountains
Haven’t had a portrait-orientation pic for a while… I still can’t quite get over the countryside round these parts. I expected desert, and more desert, and maybe the occasional cactus, but it’s lush- tons of springs, waterfalls, greenery. Very happy with this turn of events. And then after we got back home it started raining, proper thunder-and-lightning, Guadalajara-style rain. This is what Sundays should be like. Did I mention the complete absence of traffic too? Starting to understand why lots of people have told us not to tell the world about SLC…
Snow Melt through Sugar House
Icy stream flowing through Salt Lake City’s Sugar House park
Well it happened again- we moved. Subscribers to this blog can stay for free at the drop of a hat’s notice at our new place in Utah. We’ll stock up from the State Liquor Store well in advance. After nearly a month of not getting out much, we’re gradually expanding our explorations from IKEA and Home Depot to Salt Lake’s more natural surroundings. Baby steps though… Today our (gorgeous) local park, tomorrow, Zion… well, not literally. The 4th of July weekend’s not the best time to travel…
All change
Limited it to places I’ve lived for 6 months or more, which rules out France frinstance
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Greetings from our little house in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bet no one else has a blog with an entire category for ‘Moving’…
Shadow of Empire
Sounds like some kind of online multiplayer roleplaying game that title…
Anyhoo, barring a radical change the number of times I upload pix, this’ll be one of the last photos from NYC in this blog that has been variously:
Mostly Mexico
From Mexico to (Ala)meda
From Mexico to Multnomah
From Mexico to Maine
From Mexico to Manhattan
and soon to be ‘From Mexico to Salt Lake City, Utah’ or a variation thereof. Thank you for your continued patronage, looking forward to sharing the Utah landscape with y’all 🙂
Las Lozas, Chile
DrSita and Martin’s little slice of the Chilean Andes. Not much good for agriculture (possibly walnuts…) but a presently uncontaminated source of water for the rest of the valley.
In the event of an apocalypse, it’s where we’re heading.
Florid by Stuart Capstick
I mentioned this on the facebooks, but there’s no harm in putting it here too…
My mate Stu only went and wrote a novel. As anyone who knows him would expect, it’s a gem of a read, a real page-turner, that keeps you guessing and wondering where the devil the inspiration for something as otherworldly and darkly funny came from right to the end.
Join the campaign to make it a christmas number 1, order your copy now:
Gearing up for xmas in NYC
but still no snow. Can’t be far away now.
I like the reflection of the Manhattanery in the bauble and the reflection of Radio City on the water. I don’t like the blurred bit where the xmas tree is in the background; it’s ‘cos of a scratched patch on my kit lens, which any day now will cease to be a problem thanks to amazon.com 🙂
Flatiron Building, NYC
From Wikipedia: “The Flatiron Building, or Fuller Building as it was originally called, is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, and is considered to be one of the first skyscrapers ever built. Upon completion in 1902 it was one of the tallest buildings in New York City.”
And now I have captured its soul… mua hahaha, etc.