Earlier this week, my best and oldest friend Ruth came over for a very special cookery lesson (for both of us!) We were going to attempt Christine's Tomato Jam recipe, with a twist; on my colleague Debs's excellent suggestion, we added a helping of chilli to the mix.
We had all the necessary ingredients: sugar, TOMATOES, balsamic vinegar, chilli flakes, butter (not shown are the cumin, chilli powder, cayenne pepper and lemon juice we later decided to chuck in... it was a very organic progress, dreadful pun very much intended.)
These photos may make me look like something of a task master, but I was having a bad hair/face/everything day, and so decided to focus largely on Ruth! She was most obliging.
Ah, there I am finally getting stuck in, transferring fruit to pan.
Just so you know, this isn't even approaching the amount of sugar recommended in the recipe...
The mixture needed a brisk stir from time to time (I did some as well as Ruth, honest!
See!
Ruth could hardly contain her excitement at the prospect of tomato chilli jam:
The resulting tomato-y, chilli-y goodness:
Very necessary jam-tasting post-jar filling:
Ruth had created a beautiful (and humorous!) message for her jar: "Don't be greedy, feed the needy", complete with ingredients and GROW information bright pink label and fish shaped beads! A crafty lady indeed!
Ruth was very happy with the very tasty result. All that remains is for her to decide who to pass the jam on to, to spread the GROW message further. Any ideas?
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