Waste not

Last week I met up with a friend in Bar-sur-Aube for a wonderful little lunch and a catch up following her trip back to the uk.

She very kindly brought me some of her fallen apples, as she has way too many to use all by herself. She has not yet picked them from the trees, but hopefully I’ll get a few more when she does.

I simply hate wasting food, so I was very pleased to be able to use them. I started off by cutting away any bad parts of the apples, to see how much I had left. I decided to make a spiced, caramelised onion and apple chutney, and for a little twist I would add a few raisins to soak up some of the juices.

The recipe was an adaptation of one I had made previously, that had gone really well, but would benefit from the raisins.

It came out great, and made a good lot of jars. It’s better to store them in a cool place, so at the moment the jars are in the fridge.

We enjoyed some though with some succulent smoked ham we had for dinner last night. The acidity of the chutney really complemented the meat.