Baked pear and apple with a pastry top

Posted on October 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged apples, Baked fruit, Bit of water, Cooking, Gas mark six, Lemon juice, Pears, Recipe, Sweetener or sugar, Tasty, Use for glut of fruit6 Comments

I made this today to use up some of the glut of pears and cooking apples we had in.

Ingredients:

1 large cooking apple

2 large pears, both sliced and de-cored

A knob of butter,

Lemon juice

Sweetener or sugar to taste

A little water

Shop bought ready rolled pastry

Egg to brush the top.

Method:

Butter a Pyrex glass dish or flan case.

Bakethe pears and apples with a bit of lemon juice and water, add a sprinkling of sweetener, or a tablespoon of sugar over the fruit. Gas mark 6 for twenty minutes in the middle of a heated oven.

Remove from the oven with oven gloves (it will be hot)

Add the ready made pastry to the top, cutting round the shape of the flan dish. Cut two small holes at the centre of the pastry and put the rest back on the fridge to use at a later time. Brush the top with egg and if you are using sugar sprinkle another teaspoon or so on top.

Cook in the oven again on gas mark 6 (just about a middle hot oven) for around twenty more minutes, till it goes golden brown.

Remove carefully from oven and place the flan case on a wire rack to cool. If using sweetener sprinkle it on the top now.

Serve and enjoy on its own or with custard, icecream or cream.

Note: ready made pastry will probably contain WHEAT unless otherwise stated. Always check for allergens. Egg and sweeteners may not be suitable. Use what is OK for you.

Enjoy x

Fruit

Posted on October 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Dessert, Eating, Food, Fruit, Humour, Juicy, Photo, Pineapple, Poem, Poetry, Succulent, Sweet, Tasty, YellowLeave a comment

That pineapples looking sad,

Spotted leaves are wilting

It looks like it’s ripened

I must carve its flesh

Before it’s too late

Sweet yellow and sharp

Shall we have custard or cream?

Or just plain and succulent?

Last time we had one..

Ten years. Fifteen

Really..

Looking forward to it.

But is the pineapple?

Some of this years pears

Posted on September 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Environment, Fruit, Gardening, Growth, Life, Nature, Pear tree, Pears, Sweet, Tasty, Twenty years, WoolworthsLeave a comment

We bought the pear tree as a small sapling from Woolworths about twenty years ago. It’s grown since then and every year it has had a bigger crop of pears on it. This year there must have been fifty. The tree has tipped over because of their weight and possibly the wind, so we’ve had to prop it up. The bark is cracked and coming off in places, and it suffers from black spot, but the pears are delicious. Some of them rotted on the tree, possibly from being pecked by birds. We’ve got most of them off the tree now and are sharing some with friends.

Hot apple bread.

Posted on September 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apple bread, Baked, Cooked, Food, Homemade, Hubby, Loaf, Mad, Moist, Tasty, Thirty minutes later4 Comments

Bread (with oats, rye, multiseed loaf mix and tiny bits of pasta!) I think he would have added the kitchen sink. He did add larde chunks of apple and also pear. Had a bit hot with some butter. Well cooked, moist, not too crusty! I’m amazed!

Tonight’s tea

Posted on September 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, Cornish pasty, Cucumber, Dijon mustard, Food, Lettuce, Light mayonnaise, Mushroom, Onion, Photo, Plate, Portmeirion plates, Salad, Tasty, Tomato2 Comments

Tea, (early evening meal). Cornish pasty. Mixed salad of lettuce, tomato, cucumber, onion, sliced mushroom, baby bell peppers and a bit of dijon mustard and light mayonnaise. On a Portmeirion dinner plate. I think it was a good balance of food groups. Trying to cut down on carbohydrates and fats a bit. Colour on a plate.

Today’s prompt

Posted on September 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Empty plate, Food, Magnolia, Plate, Portmeirion plates, Pottery, Salad, TastyLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt. It was meant to be a plate of food but I’d eaten it before I remembered! The depicts a Magnolia plant with butterflies on the plate made at Portmeirion pottery. I drew it using a black drawing pencil on cartridge paper in my little sketchbook. We had a salad and quiche. With whole grain mustard. Tasty.

Apple pie?

Posted on September 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged apples, Baking, Cake, Cookery, Crumble, Food, Lemon juice, Photodirector, Pie, Stewed apples, Tasty2 Comments

Having lots of apples is great, but then you have to use them. I want to cook a pie or a crumble or a cake, I just don’t have the energy at the moment. I might even stew the apples and make some pancakes to go with them. It would be good with some lemon juice. Lots of choices, lots of ideas, hopefully tasty.

Blog now, pay later…

Posted on September 20, 2020September 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apps, Black and white, Chocolate, Instagram, Layout app, Milk chocolate, Photo, Photodirector, Sweet, Tasty2 Comments

Photo of milk chocolates that I was given today. Manipulated in Instagram and Photodirector. I shouldn’t eat them, I’ve had a couple ‘to sooth my throat’, hubby’s had some too…

Elaborated the photo by duplicating it in Layout. I like the way the strawberry chocolates somehow turned into mouth 👄 shapes. I rotated the images a few times before I came up with this set. I chose the title, by the way, because I’m not meant to have sugar!

Apples

Posted on September 13, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged apples, Baking, Cake, Cooked fruit, Cookery, Crumble, Food, Fruit, Questions, Raw fruit, Tart, Tasty, TreesLeave a comment

Cooking and dessert apples, over the last few days we have collected lots of them.

I have questions. Can you freeze apples if you just cut them up, or do you have to cook them first?

Crumble or pie? Cake or tart? I’m thinking of what to use them in. Do I cook them till they are mush and turned to puree then freeze it. Can I make Cider? I also have lots of pears on the tree, can I make Perry? I might bake them in the oven after removing the cores and then serve them with custard?

What do you think? Any suggestions?

Tea tonight, Thai salad

Posted on September 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Eaten, Food, Good food, Hill Street, Home made, Not expensive, Sawadee Thai taste, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke-upon-Trent, TastyLeave a comment

I went out to our local Thai restaurant, Sawadee Thai taste in Stoke and had a Green Papaya salad with seafood. It was extremely tasty. We also had thin rice noodles with some chilli’s and mixed vegetables. This is the third time I’ve had it because it tastes so nice. I would have taken a photo but I’d eaten the food before I thought about it.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Tasty