Due to the nature of my job, I sometimes have to go for business trips abroad…
Which means, my garden will be left somewhat unattended…
Had been struggling for the past few seasons with how to ‘properly’ grow strawberries…
Think I finally got the hang of it…
Come summer 2016, fruits were aplenty…
But just then, that two-week long business trip came in the way…
So what to do?
It would be a shame to have the fruits ripening only to be eaten by sow-bugs…
Decided to play around, processing the unripe fruits…
And into the Dutch oven the fruits went in…
Dressed up with some experimental spices, and oh, what a beauty it turned out to be…
Had them stored in glass jars, and into the refrigerator they went…
My ‘sweeto-haato’ and I took our sweet time to slowly relish the final product…
Potager Y @ Japan 
What a wonderfully creative idea, will you be posting the recipe?
Oops… truth is, yours truly is hopeless with recipes… for all the little cooking that I have done, it has always been ‘play-play’, that is, no records, no measurements, etc… 😉
May be if you have the opportunity to make it again you would not mind taking some notes.
So wonderful to “see” you Lrong. The recipe for your strawberries would be lovely, I don’t grow my own but the strawberries in the grocery are looking paler and paler so it might be fun trying out what you did. 🙂
Hi Theanne… long time no ‘see’… as in the reply to Norma Chang above, I am totally hopeless with recipes… sorry! But, if you can get your hands on some unripe strawberries, you can experiment too, like I did…
I’m absolutely a disaster when it comes to creating my own recipes…but if I find some semi unripe strawberries I’ll give it a try. So nice to hear from you, hope all is well over your way 🙂
Lrong that is AMAZING!!!! YUM! This next year, I plan on learning how to use what we grow. I decided some things may just not be useful to grow in our small city potater. I am concentrating on those items most useful to our daily eating + health. It must be hard being gone for long periods. Next year, we are going to Sweden to see our daughter, so I have to find someone to take care of the garden while I am gone. I am not looking forward to leaving my garden, but sometimes you just have too:-) L ove your photos:-)
I salute your ‘planning’, Robbie… I have a lot to learn from you… 🙂
Sweden? That sounds quite like an adventure…
But then again, I can understand your ‘not looking forward to leave your garden’ feeling…
Stockholm is where we will be going, I am eager to visit. She had twins a year ago and pretty excited to meet grandchildren!
Strawberry relish? That sounds tasty!
Yeap, it is something that we probably cannot buy from the stores…
We enjoyed that chutney with various dishes…