Getting Pickled!

The other day we all got pickled, but in the most tasteful way and we remained completely sober. As you can tell from this last comment, it had nothing to do with the Woodforde's brewery delivery man making one of his regular trips to our home.

It did, however, have everything to do with those enormous marrows, grown by Tommy, that we showed you a little while back.


As you can see one of those marrow produced a fine batch of pickle. And it is not just any old pickle. I was following Aunt Jessie from Devon's special marrow chutney recipe with lots of chillies. Aunty Jessie tells me she misses out the chillies, but for all of us in bears Unlimited they are the essential ingredient. Chutney lover, T.B.B., who you see with me in the photo, couldn't wait to taste my delicious chutney, and he also hung around during it's making, I think to make sure I put all the chilli seeds in.

It almost makes winter more bearable, the thought of sitting round the fire enjoying the chutney with our lunches.

If anyone wants the recipe, I'll happily send it to you.

Lots of love, Chef Bear Oakley xxx