A Spoonful of Sugar

I've lost a recipe. In fact, I've lost a cookbook. This is now the second time I have lost this book!! (Sue Kreitzman's Quick After-Work Cookbook, if you were interested). I desperately wanted to make her fig and chilli chutney for my Ultimate Sandwich and as sods law would have it.... this recipe is not reproduced in any of her other low-fat cookbooks and noone seems to have reproduced it online. Woe is me.

I'm now trawling through a surprisingly short list of hits on Google to see if I can find a recipe to suit. I feel like throwing a tantrum and stomping my feet. I even got hubbie to move the couch (and pretty much all the other furniture in the lounge) to see if it was somehow lurking in the darkness beneath it. No such luck. I know it is in the house though! It was definitely here in February when we moved as it was my Cookbook Of Choice that month (February being my usual month to diet). I'm sure I pulled it out again in July/August when I was contemplating trying to loose a few pounds after our rather food-orientated honeymoon...

The end result of all this angst is that I have no recipe for fig and chilli chutney, no cookbook, and the only thing I can think of is the damn chutney (which I have never made before but really wanted to make!). My husband has taken this as conclusive proof that I am indeed insane. Today, I am in complete agreement with him.

Update: I've found the book! Yay me! Now I just need to wait for the shops to re-open and I can make the chutney. I wonder if the granary bread will last until Friday?