What to do with green tomatoes.

Our first frost has now finished off our tomato plants, i was about to dig them up anyway but was hoping to get the last ones ripened off a bit more before i dug them out.

So i had a lot of green tomatoes to do something with, (2 1/2 kilo's)

The obvious thing to do with them is chutney so i did a bit of hunting around and found a nice simple recipe on the net :http://www.blagger.co.uk/recipes/easy-green-tomato-chutney-recipe/

Nice and simple which allows you to add your own twist which is always a good thing, i have tried chutneys before but the recipe's can be very in depth and i like to make my own choices as far as hotness and spices go.

Washed toms.

Roughly chopped.

Next 6 small onions, regrettably shop bought as we did not have the option of growing much this season, the toms where grown in grow bags. 

 next  the sugar white or brown, some sultanas and ground black pepper, you can also add spices along with the vinegar if you like, i used white wine vinegar and added a little chinese 5 spice. Bring this to the boil and then reduce heat and simmer for about 90 mnutes or until

 the tomatoes brake down and reduce, you need to give it a stir ever so often to stop the chuntey catching due to the high sugar content.

I had to use two pans (well a pan and a wok) as i didnt have a pan big enough to fit all the ingredient's in in one. This gave me to option of making two different variations so i left the spice out of the other one only adding extra ground black pepper.

Whilst the chutney cooks down you can wash and sterilize your jars ready for potting up. (if thats the rite word)?.

Nice stuff too, well we are looking forward to our new home and all the extra space and garden we will have and opportunity's that this will offer.

Feel free to ask any questions on this or any other entries and check back to see how we are progressing.

Next task is the packing.

Oh goody!!!

Leigh