Home Made.......

 
Using my favourite Vegan Rhubarb Cake recipe I made Apple Cake to use up the last of last year's apples from the freezer. It took a lot longer to cook because the apple is so much wetter than the rhubarb and because apple has a lot of its own sugar it burnt on the tops. Still very yummy though and all got eaten. 

Yes it's plum season! And my recipe plum chutney is definitely one of the best chutneys ever. The process is quite labour intensive and I can't stand for that long any more.

As Daughter is the main consumer she has been the main maker for the last few years. Hubby picked the plums (that bucket is about half what is still on the tree) and we bought the ingredients in readiness. 

Daughter came Thursday afternoon and together......

....... we ended up with all these full jars! 

I won't bore you with the whole process but when you do something just once a year things get forgotten, like Daughter having to go home again for the other big pan and then us both forgetting than my induction hob gets upset with an aluminium pan and needs the conductor plate underneath. We got there in the end. 

E's ex- also came on Thursday to sort the room full of stuff they stored here and take lots away with him. So lunch for us all then a very busy house. 

You could tell we were tired by the lower score Hubby, E and I got for our usual Thursday night Jay's Virtual Quiz hahaha. 

This year's Theatre in the Forest had its Press Night on Friday and Daughter was given two complimentary tickets and bought one for me (and they gave her discount on that too). O came with Daughter and me. 

Seven actors working so hard and an amazing puppet dog plus we very briefly saw R in the interval running around working as behind the scenes Stage Manager. A few bits came across a bit chaotic but mostly it was really good fun.

Daughter had driven us in my car as her car was packed ready for her Magic weekend at Kentwell so she'd left that on my drive and when we got back we saw Hubby had put the box of chutney jars in there already. I hope she remembered to take it out at home and hasn't taken it on her working weekend as a musical Dryad hahaha. 

Enjoy your weekend.

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