Sunday cooking

I’m desperately trying to make some space in the freezer for the festering season, and also the weather here is utterly vile, so I had a bit of a Reactive day yesterday. Chicken Pudding I had a rather small tub of chicken pie filling – chicken left over from a roast, with bacon and veg…

plum and apple porridgy crumble

We had some plums going scrotal in the fruit bowl, so I cut them in to quarters and destoned them, and put them in an ovenproof dish. They didn’t look enough, somehow, so I got a Bramley out of the fridge and peeled and chopped it, and into the dish it went. Added a drizzle…

kiwi fruit and apple crumble

using up: kiwi fruit, windfall apples The veg box from the week before last (!) included four kiwi fruit.  Neither P nor I are enamoured of these little hairy chaps, and the only things people suggested we do with them were pavlova (Pete doesn’t like meringue) or cheesecake, which I couldn’t be bothered to make….

a plum and apple pudding

using up: four plums and a wrinkly cooking apple Peel and core the apple, and cut into chunks.  Set in an ovenproof dish. Cut the plums in half, and remove the stones.  Set cut side down in a shallow pan, and add about 1/2″ of water, two star anise, and half a cinnamon stick, and…