A taste of summer

It’s been cold today… sunny enough to walk through the village without a coat, but the wind was chilly. It has been a lovely summer but it is definitely autumn now, in fact we picked the last blackberries from the hedge by our garden wall. According to tradition, the devil spits on October blackberries, so maybe we should soak them in gin and drink the results when it gets really cold! Or alternatively I could try a new recipe a friend shared and make blackberry vinegar:

http://scribblah.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/blackberry-vinegar/

We still have a few tomatoes but very soon we’ll have to bring them in, even the green ones and ripen them indoors or make more green tomato chutney. There are also a few beans still on the vines, they too will have to be stripped off and either blanched and frozen, or if they are too old and leathery I’ll retrieve the actual beans and make a casserole.

So into autumn we go, and the only way to recapture summer is through food:

Mmm…. the taste of summer!