Tag: chutney

Savory Cheese scones with cherry chutney
17Dec

Cheese scones with cherry chutney

I have been struggling with the flu for the last two days. Deciding to walk around the Christmas market in the pouring rain does that to you. With the temperatures dropping and the sun becoming very shy this time of year it has been easy for me to sleep in. And sleeping in means that meals merge into one another and this gives me a great excuse to have brunch in bed. In England scones are often eaten as an afternoon treat, with tea and sweet toppings like clotted cream and jam, and although I will never say never to a scone with cream and jam I will always reach for the savoury ones first. Scones are not what first pops into people’s mind when they think of brunch, but for me that’s the perfect dish to have with coffee. Fluffy cakes with tangy cheese. Chutney is often paired with cheese scones but my choice of cherries as the fruit is unconventional for a chutney. It makes it a little sweeter than traditional recipes, but as a big fan of sweet and sour tastes this was a gamble that paid off. Sweet cherry chutney (yields around 300g) 250g frozen pitted cherries
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31Aug

Minute steak sandwich with plum chutney

As a student nurse I have been doing placements in several different offices and hospitals and right now I am based at an office. Unlike hospitals the working hours and the pace at a clinic are a lot more slow paced, which I love, however it leaves a lot of spare time to ‘’pop’’ to the kitchen and rummage the cupboards for biscuits and cake during both the morning and afternoon munchies. You often don’t find any and in days like that my munchies make me walk 2 miles to get a vanilla crown at a nearby bakery. Often someone will bring a few baked goods and leave it in the kitchen for everyone but the only treat this week was a massive box of Victoria plums from someone’s garden. No vanilla crown I’ll tell you.  On their own they are not my favourite afternoon snack. Unless they were in a cake. But their little translucent skins looked so beautiful I couldn’t help myself and picked up a few, all this recipes flashing through my brain. I think most people would have chosen to do something sweet with plums but my brain immediately thought: chutney. I love chutney and I have mentioned before
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