Frieda's Little Kitchen

Homemade chutneys with a twist! First a little bit about myself. I come from a small village in the Netherlands, north of Amsterdam in what is called the top of North Holland. We lived on the outskirts of the village next to a dyke and my grandparents had a farm in the polder on the other side of the dyke. My whole family has always enjoyed cooking, probably because my grandmother taught cooking at a high school in Haarlem in her younger days. My grandmother never stopped cooking and being on a farm with a big orchard and vegetable garden, she had everything on tap. My sisters and I have clearly also inherited this love as we enjoy cooking just as much. In my late teens we moved to South Africa as a family because of my dad's job. Needless to say that this didn't go down too well with my sisters and myself. Sadly my dad passed away a few years after we moved there. We just stayed as we are a close knit family and didn't want to be apart. I subsequently married and Englishman and we moved to the UK 12 years ago with our daughter and her family. Sadly we lost my husband last year after a long illness. I started cooking from a really young age and discovered making chutneys. With Dutch/Indonesian influences as well as South African ones, I started experimenting with recipes, I have now been making chutneys/relishes by hand from my kitchen for close to 30 years. I originally made them as gifts for family and friends, but since losing my husband, now as my own little business. The recipes all date back to when I was living in South Africa and I am is still using the same original tried-and-tested recipes to this date, but now with a 5-star council hygiene rating. I make small-batch, homemade chutneys that are full of character.