Getting in a pickle

St Damien
Yesterday's weather: Not much to write home about.

The weather is awful today, my foot still has stitches so it seems like a good day to make chutney.

An excess of cherry tomatoes and piles of figs should make for an interesting concoction I think. I would love to recreate one of my favourites, Sainsbury's tomato and chilli relish. I haven't seen anything like it here and it goes very well in a toasted cheese sarnie. My mouth is watering at the thought.

The chillies we have grown were labelled 'Java - Indonesian chillies'. That should have given us a clue about how hot they are. I won't repeat here what Jon said when he tried just the tip of one of them, for fear that young children may be reading this. I think 'Krakatoa' might give you a clue anyway, and the steam coming out of his ears matched any Tom and Jerry cartoon! We'll probably only need one or two for 2 kilos of chutney. I'll let you know how it does, since I don't have a recipe and will be making this one up.

I've found a collection of recipes for fig jam and fig chutney. I've also learned that you can wash them and put them in polythene bags in the freezer and just use them as they come out. The only thing is that with the number of figs we've got I might have to order a second freezer!