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Another crop that’s done well in the tunnel-house this year has been capsicums. So, what do you do with a glut of tomatoes, capsicums and chillies? Only one thing for it, brew up a batch of chilli jam!

First up, prepare the basic ingredients…

Note, that I wisely took the photo before I deseeded the chillies. I’d rather not spread chilli juice over the camera right now as we’re trying to remember to pick it up and use it more regularly at the moment. And there’s a moment every time I have to deseed a number of chillies that I’m very, very thankful I wear glasses!

So a bit of bubbling, bubbling, bubbling later, and at some random moment when we decided it was ready it was into the jars.

Now just the usual wait to let it all come together before the grand tasting!

We pretty much did everything wrong with our corn patch this year. The soil wasn’t really prepared deep enough, we had two types of corn in the same patch, we didn’t bother weeding it, etc, etc… But despite all that a fair few cobs seem to have been produced. So before they were totally munted by something we got on and had a “late summer” lunch feast of some of them.

Water boiling before they get pulled off the plants, of course, and straight in they go. Yum, yum!

Might have to try a bit harder next year!…

It appears that I’ve not yet lost my touch with women…

Yes, they’re now eating out of the palm of my hand.

Weird feeling as they peck away, but not painful. Or not normally painful, except when one of them tried to see if the tip of my finger was edible. But as much as they like the scratch mix, they like the slugs I go find for them even better. They’re their favourite!