This weekend I got a chance to try out a recipe I’ve had my eye on for a while. Its this Spicy Cranberry Chutney which I’m making as christmas presents (home made presents – way nicer and way cheaper!). Here is it in progress, and in the jars when it was finished:

Its very sweet and not very spicy because I (predictably) didn’t check I had everything I needed so I had to improvise wildly – and the missing ingredients sadly were the ginger and the pepper. Still, Its very edible and I can see this going with cold turkey very nicely on boxing day. I’m also planning some apple-something (apple jelly perhaps?) since I have a few apples that need something doing with them: