make green tomato chutney!

I just couldn’t bear to see all of the green tomatoes on the blight infected plants that we pulled go to waste. Roughly 28 plants with nothing to show for it was just too disappointing, so we gathered up what usable fruit we did have and made a big double + batch of chutney (those are just some of the jars on the window sill, there were more behind me on the table. Oh how fondly I remember those days of having kitchen counters…).

I’m not putting up nearly so much this season. Between the poor harvest and the time consuming aspects of trying to find a place to live, I’m just not up for a year like last year. But I’m still putting things by here and there….some strawberries, blueberries and peas, blackberries, greens and herbs. I’m hoping to get up a big batch of pesto next week. I’ll admit that I was just as surprised as anyone to see fresh jars appearing on my bookshelf (I do miss kitchen cabinets too) and a jam packed freezer, in this year when I’m thinking about anything and everything but. It’s just such a normal thing to me now. I don’t even think about it, it’s just what one does. Little bits of summer here and there, all saved up for the winter to come.