There were lots of green and red tomatoes sitting in the greenhouse....

Tomato Soup (simple version) Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook:

200g onions, chopped

50g unsalted butter

900g tomatoes

5 tablespoons of dry sherry (I used a little less Port instead)

1 tblsp sugar if required (toms not ripe enough)

Torn basil to serve

Veg stock if needs thinning ( mine did a little - maybe 150ml)

Sweat the onions slowly (I always like to sweat onions for a good 10 minutes to make them nice and sweet)

Add everything excpet the cream and cook for about 10 mins

Whizz in a blender (I always use handheld whizzer) Push through a sieve (I didn't bother!)

Thin if necessary with stock and a dribble of cream and more basil. Yum Scrum.

Green tomato Chutney (Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook) :

7cm piece of root ginger

2-3 red chillis, halved

900g cooking apples, peeled, cored & chopped

450g shallots

1.75 litres white wine vinegar

450g demerara sugar

juice of 2 lemons

25g mustard seeds

50g salt

Bruise the ginger and tie it in a muslin with the chilllis

Put all the ingredients into a big pan preserving pan.

Tie muslin bag to the handle and let it dangle and release all the flavours

Start over a low heat to dissolve the sugar then boil for 2 hours until consistency is rich and thick.  I never felt that mine got that rich and thick 1. because I think there is slightly too much liquid, and 2. because I forgot to put the apples in, remembered after about 45 minutes then overdid the rest of the mixture so the tomatoes went a little too mushy. 

Put chutney into warm sterilised jars and cross your fingers for a month!!

I now have 15 jars of the stuff in my garage!