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blackberry, blackcurrant, Crème de Cassis, fig, nectarine, peach, plum, rhubarb, tomato
In My Kitchen is a wonderful monthly series hosted by Celia from Fig Jam and Lime Cordial. Head over to her blog for a full list of the participants, and find out what’s happening in kitchens across the globe.
I meant to post this quite a bit earlier, except that this month…
Summer has exploded all over my kitchen!…
And this isn’t even half of it!
A couple of lovely friends (thanks Kezza and Jenny) have given me kilos and kilos of beautiful plums…..
I’ve made plum butter, plum jam, plum sauce, plum chutney, plum tart and plum hand pies, and still frozen lots for later cakes and crumbles……
I also went blackberrying with Kezza, her sister Helen, and some small helpers, and we managed to pick a couple of kilos, despite the bushes fighting back – I still have the evidence on my forearms 🙂
Some beautiful blackberry jam is the result, with the squashy ones infusing into blackberry vinegar, plus a couple of bags of berries in the freezer….
We’ve picked all our beautiful nectarines, and after eating lots fresh, have frozen lots of the bird nibbled ones (bloody cockies!) as slices for crumbles, plus made a few jars of nectarine jam…
My tomatoes are finally starting to ripen with the mini roma tomatoes leading the way; the fabulously named Granny’s Throwing Tomatoes will be a while yet as they’re huge!…
I have a tub full of the most wonderful stewed fruit (almost) all home grown or foraged: including nectarines from my garden; peaches and plums from Kezza, rhubarb from Mel; wild blackberries we picked; and a few bought pears. It’s the sort of dish that always makes me feel warm and fuzzy 🙂
Julie’s amazing fig trees have produced buckets, which I’ve been lucky enough to share in…
Fig chutney, and my attempt at burnt fig jam a la Maggie Beer have resulted so far, but Mr Golden Pudding has also happily devoured heaps fresh – they’re his favourite fruit!
I managed to buy some fresh blackcurrants, (unfortunately I don’t know anyone who grows these), which have made a wonderfully purple-black and amazingly scented jam, plus two precious bottles of Crème de Cassis…
So I think I might take a break from my kitchen with a Kir Royale, and catch up on what you have all been doing…
What’s in your kitchen this month?
In Search of Golden Pudding 
Oh my! What a delightful time you’ve been having, Mrs Golden Pudding. Your kitchen must be heaven scent (pun intended) and your Summer joy leaps off the screen sooooooo infectiously! I too have black figs in my kitchen and have just turned my neighbour’s quinces into quince paste. Lovely, lovely!
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it’s a bit stressful, but really very fun isn’t it!
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in my kitchen – some overripe bananas and a papaya…:-( I WANT STONE FRUIT!!!! Your kitchen looks aMazing!
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well you can at least have some jam next time you visit….not quite the same I know 😦
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Wow! So much lovely fruit and so many yummy things made with it! I wish I was around to sample. Hope you get to rest and enjoy after all that work too 🙂
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Thanks! I’m happy to send some over with your Mum if they’ll let it in the country 🙂
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Now that’s what I call bountiful! You’ll feel so smug come winter when you start eating these delicious summery fruits. Thanks for the peep into your kitchen
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thanks! and it feels particularly good when it’s fruit that would have otherwise been wasted – so it’s both frugal and delicious 🙂
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I have heard of the throwing tomatoes, it will be interesting to hear how they taste. How lucky you are to have so many figs. Today I ate our one and only fig. Hopefully one day we will have a bigger crop.
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Fiiigs!! Blackberries! Plums!! Look at your kitchen, Beck! I LOVE green figs best of all – we’ve had a lot of black ones this year, which are delish, but the green ones are like honey! 🙂
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It’s been a lot of fun!, and I’ve been finding Nigel Slater’s wonderful book ‘Tender’ so useful as he has so many great ideas for garden fruit crops….
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Wow – you have been busy – I am not sure I have ever seen so much fruit in one kitchen! I am very impressed and can’t imagine you will be missing out on summer fruit, come winter! Granny’s Throwing Tomatoes – I have never heard of them but the fact that they are huge has just made me imagine all sorts of scenarios involving a very annoyed granny – brilliant name!! Thanks for the peek into your kitchen!
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thanks Selma, I love the name too, and I’ll make sure I post a photo of the final result – I can already see they’re going to be huge!
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Granny’s throwing tomatoes… heh heh heh… splotch.
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