On my own…..

Breakfast is usually my favourite meal of the day… whatever time I eat it…. eaten in the middle of the night can be wonderful…. and oh man, that first cup of tea… *NOTHING* is better than the first mouthful of tea in the mornings!

So this is a recent breakfast.. homemade bread, given a wonderful golden colour by the addition of Bee pollen… and  English Breakfast Marmalade… I miss real marmalade, made with seville oranges like my Father In Law used to make….. have sent out begging emails :) You don’t seem to be able to buy Seville oranges in New Zealand, I look for them every January….

I have been wanting to make Chili Jam for ages….. anyway, today I tried… and failed miserably! It would have been ok had I not burnt it…. but I always seem to do this with jam.. although I did make a good plum one a couple of months ago actually. Maybe it’s that I don’t really have a sweet tooth and the sugar senses that and rebels…. ;)

I really love Chilli jelly but I didn’t fancy all that dripping around…. anyway, this is what the jam looked like before the burning….. I used apples as a base…

I made a decent curry later to restore my battered chefs ego.. and found the best organic basmati I have ever tasted!