For Chutney.
This recipe is shared as part of Fork In The Road and Refugee Community Kitchen’s end of the season fundraiser at the Pavilion Cafe on the 28th of October 2018. To find out how you can donate or volunteer for Refugee Community Kitchen and aid the support of people in the U.K. and Northern France visit HERE
Spicy Tomato Chutney
Prep:20min › Cook:40min › Ready in: 1hr Makes 24 portions or 4 x 200ml jars
An easy basic chutney that you could add a choice of ingredients to depending on what you might have to hand. You could add fruit to the tomatoes while whizzing them up or you could add pieces of fruit and veg into the chutney while it’s cooking for a chunkier version.
It tastes lovely with the tempered spices, but is also good without if the whole spices are not available.
You could also vary the spicing to make a different flavour of chutney. i.e use Moroccan spices or Szechuan pepper and Chinese mixed spice.
Add apples, plums, apricots, grated root veg, peppers, roasted aubergine, courgette, use what you have … what’s in season etc…
Ingredients
8-10 ripe tomatoes or 500ml tomato passata
fresh root ginger, chopped
3 cloves garlic, chopped
3 green chillies (or so) -Whole spices (optional)
2 cloves
1 cinnamon stick
1tsp whole cumin
2 tsps brown mustard seeds
1 bayleaf
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup vinegar
2 onions, diced
1 dessertspoon garam masala
1 teaspoon chilli powder (to taste)
1 tablespoon curry powder
2 tablespoons sultanas or other dried fruit
Salt and pepper
Method
1. Fill a saucepan with water and bring to the boil. Place tomatoes in boiling water, and cook for 3 to 5 minutes, or until skins begin to crack and peel. Remove from water, cool and peel.
2. Purée tomatoes with ginger, chillies and garlic in a food processor or blender.
* If using passata miss out these first 2 stages and add ginger, garlic and chilli after the onions.
3. Temper whole spices in some hot oil (if tempering spices).
*To make the chutney more simple you could use some or all of these whole spices, or miss out this step altogether.
4. Sauté onions until golden brown, add the curry powder and garam masala and stir in the rest of the ingredients.
5. Simmer over medium heat until thick, keep stirring and check seasoning, Cook for around 40 minutes or until it is sticky and reduced.
6. Cool and refrigerate until ready to use, or sterilise jars and preserve the chutney.
*To sterilise jars and lids, wash thoroughly and rinse, place in the oven at 140c for 10 mins
Spoon the chutney in the jars while they are both still hot and put the lids on, store in a cool place until ready to use.
Shared by Morven Lindsay, volunteer for Refugee Community Kitchen in Edinburgh
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🚴The Culinary Cycling Adventures Continue🚴
From communal meals celebrating community gardens to workshops introducing different aspects of food Fork In The Road is a mobile community bike trailer kitchen celebrating Edinburgh’s urban green spaces. See the newsletter links above for recent updates as the project progresses!
Fork In The Road rides out! Delighted to announce that I have been awarded funding from the Awards For All Fund at the National Lottery. A summer of food, cycling, design and celebrating urban green spaces is ahead.
Learn To Know, New Orleans, 2017
The Edinburgh Tool Library is building two bike kitchens for community spaces and organisations throughout the city. Before we start though, we need your help to re-imagine and re-define the existing open source designs. Artist Morvern Odling, part of the design team that made and built the original project, is leading the redesign process to bring these open source kitchens to life.
Working within the ideologies of the Edinburgh Tool Library and the open source community, we imagine that when built, these kitchens would be used by charities and community groups who want to share food together, but don’t have access to cooking facilities: think schools, events, and growing spaces. The aim of the project is to inspire people to reimagine the places we call kitchens.
The bike kitchens will be made by volunteers, and the plans then published and shared for other communities to benefit.
The Saturday will be divided into two sessions, please only sign up for one. Lunch will be provided between 1 and 2pm – please join us whichever group you are in.
We will also run a drop in session on Sunday July 30th, applying the findings of the first two sessions to the original design. This will be more practically focused and involve CAD design and technical drawing – call in if this spins your wheel!
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I’m getting over last year with a new trip to be a symbolic full stop: short lived but perfectly formed and I’m mostly taking photographs of holes.
In new news, there’s a new project with young people, a never-ending list of artworks to be made and a conference to exhibit at.
Busy year, like ever (I hope).
Participatory Practice
My example piece from the colour, pattern and shape workshops this week
When I consider my career and the careers of my peers it’s easy to become disillusioned with the ‘art world’ or the possibilities for using what we trained to do as a means of making a living. Making A Living; this covers not just earning enough money to have a roof and some food but also the means to produce and exhibit work. Up until the end of the summer of 2015 the only way I saw for achieving this was by waitressing, supplementing my income with random freelance jobs which came my way and saving my tips in a jar by my bed. (real jobs don’t tip you, disappointing realisation). I worked hard, long hours and developed pretty mean insomnia over the four years of juggling both my career and my jobs.
How is this any good? Is it ‘worth it’ (and what does that question even mean, to me or anyone). Do I get some kind of kudos or cool stamp for making work and wrecking my life? Apparently yes! and with so many of us chasing our dreams the opportunities pool is becoming relatively smaller and smaller every year.
So what do I do, what am I doing? I’m breaking down the collaborative side to my work, taking it to pieces and putting it back together but with other people included. Working with others, whether they are peers, participants or disengaged young Glaswegians, has established itself as a central part to my life, my practice and soon, the rest of my work.
It’s just nice to have a job. And it’s my job to relate my practice to those young people who have fallen out of the education system so far that they need a painted, constructed, mad path back toward it.
Colour Matching Workshop, Young Person’s Work
Collaboration also comes in the form of Exhibitions: Eye Am Camera collective have an OPEN CALL