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

An Edible Hat!

Hope you're having a flipping good pancake evening as we are. We simply love pancakes and could eat them until them come out our ears. It's just a pity that Shrove Tuesday only comes round once a year.

Earlier this evening, Masterchef Oakley put on his chefs hat and started cooking some savoury mince pancakes. These went down very well and if Oakley hadn't moved quickly he wouldn't have got to taste one himself.

We enjoyed an excellent pint of Wherry with the pancakes. Perhaps this was why there was a bit of a mishap when we came to make the sweet pancakes for pudding. Oakley tossed the first pancake with a real flourish and quite a bit of welly. The pancake bounced of the ceiling and instead of making it back into the pan, landed on my head, resulting in some new head gear that was rather warm and smelt really good. I paused only long enough for this picture to be taken, before claiming the pancake for myself and wolfing it down with some lemon juice and toffee sauce - simply delicious!


By the way we're not giving up Wherry for Lent but are giving up meat. We'll have to let you know how we get on. What are you giving up?

Lots of love Marmaduke and the Bears Unlimited gang xxx