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How To Smoke Your Nuts - One of the Simplest, Satisfying and Tasty Video...

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A delicious treat for friends and family to enjoy. Hurry though, they don't last too long!! Here's a link to the video https://youtu.be/70LdPqeDvjo This has to be one of the tastiest, simplest and pleasing smoking projects out there. Hot Smoked Nuts. I'm using an inexpensive brand of mixed nuts from the supermarket (Lidl) costing 78 pence for 200g here but the results are anything but inexpensive.      The taste from the blend of natural Oak smoke, sweetness from the honey and salt, coupled with the complexity of roasted nuts will blow your socks off (if you're wearing socks that is).    Here i', using a stovetop smoker from Camerons. these are really useful pieces of kit and are suitable for electric, gas and induction stoves. Disheasher safe and altogether a great piece of kit to have in the kitchen cupboard I'm using a fine oak chip here but you can of course use any variety of hard or fruit wood if you have it to hand. We do sell this wood on our website ...

Tomato, Apple and Chili Chutney

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This is a deliciously tasty little recipe for anyone who has a glut of ripe tomatoes and windfall apples and like me loves a bit of heat and hates waste. This is a one pot job that couldn't be easier. Goes really well with smoked food too. Prep Time. 90mins. You will need 1kg Tomatoes 1kg Apples 900g Sugar 350ml Red wine vinegar 100g Chilies (medium hot) 1 Onion (large) 2 tbs Vegetable oil 1 tsp Salt 1 tsp Pepper Makes 2.1Kg of chutney - 6 x 350g jars.  What you need to do. Core the apples and along with the tomatoes, chilies and onion roughly chop them. In a large pan, sweat the onion in the oil until translucent. Add the remaining ingredients and stir until combined.  Slowly bring the mixture up to aa gentle simmer stirring briefly every 20 mins. Simmer gently reducing the mixture until you can briefly see a clean base when a wooden spoon is drawn through the mixture. When heating the mixture make sure not to overheat it. You don't want...