Monday, September 2, 2019

Home made Ketchup

A variety of tomatoes



Homemade Passata

3kg ripe tomatoes halved
6 garlic cloves thinly sliced
5 sprigs fresh thyme
4 to 6 tbsp rapeseed oil
Salt and pepper to season

Heat oven to 180 c
Put tomatoes on roasting tray cut side up (I needed 2 trays for 3kg)
Scatter over garlic and thyme and trickle over the oil. Season generously!
Roast for about an hour until the tomatoes are soft and brown at the edges…
Put the tomatoes thru a mooli..

Above made approx. 1.4 litres of tomato passata..
You can now bag and freeze



Passata sauce at the ready


OR>>> Homemade Ketchup

2 bay leaves
Mace
Cider vinegar
Brown sugar


You can add an extra step to make homemade ketchup 😊
Take out 500ml of the puree and add to a saucepan. Add 2 bay leaves and a heaped teaspoon of brown sugar.
Add a tablespoon of cider vinegar and a pinch of mace (can use a pinch of ground nutmeg and/or ground all spice)
Bring to a simmer and cook gently stirring OFTEN until reduced to about half..It should form a thick glossy sauce..
Taste, season and adjust with sugar/vinegar/seasoning if required.
Bottle and seal tightly…


500 ml makes about 325 ml of Ketchup


Bottled Ketchup

Monday, August 26, 2019

Chilli Pics August 2019



Chilli & Sweet Pepper plants growing very well this year, especially the Sweet Peppers...
For Sweet Peppers this year, I sowed Sweet Boneta, Orange Monster, Semorah and Keystone Giant, all of which grew very well. The Yellow Monster produced very large fruits!













Bangalore Whippets Tail

Orange Jalapeno

Orange Jalapeno

Chilaca

Ohnivec

Yellow Monster

Semorah

Sweet Bonetia

Ohnivec

Thursday, June 27, 2019

Garden Splendour - June 2019

From Green House down

Lettuce planted out on 26/06, Spring Onions and Beetroot growing away.
Cape Gooseberry and Sunflower in back ground
Sweetcorn to the rhs



From fence back up towards garage

Peas planted out 26/6 to grow up alongside wire fence
Carrots resown after slug decimation
Spring planted Onions to the lhs

Bottom corner 

Full Garden side view

Side View

Thai Lettuce & Thai Parsley

Scorpion Choc Chilli

Monday, May 27, 2019

Progress!!

Very healthy Lupin plants adding some colour!

Onions planted in March

Garlic & Winter Onions

Cabbage Plants planted out May 25th

New beds looking good! Beetroot & Spring Onions transplanted..

Sweetcorn planted out


Monday, May 20, 2019

New Sleepers progress

Getting there...

Sleeper splitting top and bottom bed again..Might put wood chip along the sleeper on bottom bed to act as a walkway
3 different levels to deal with!

Some progress

The Tunnel July 2022