Well today was all sort of up and down ( Read more... )

I love eating chutney's jam's pickles and other sorts of preserves. I have memories of my parents preserving fruits when we were kids using some sort of a pressure cooker to preserve pears, apricots, plums and peaches. They usually formed the basis of any deserts we had for the next year. So I have always been keen on this sort of cooking and of ( Read more... )