Apple Crumble
Ingredients: 4 x good sized cooking apples, peeled and cut into chunks I punnet of blackberries Zest from ½ a lemon
2 tablespoons sugar
Half a block of cold butter
A cup caster sugar
A cup flour Half a cup of ground almonds
A handful of flaked almonds
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas mark 4. Put apples, blackberries, lemon zest and sugar in an ovenproof
dish and toss to combine. To make the crumble rub together the butter, sugar, flour
and ground almonds. Put the crumble on top of the fruit and scatter the almonds
on the top. Cook in the oven for 40 minutes(ish) until the fruit is bubbling
and the crumble topping is a golden brown.
Leave to cool before serving with lashings of cream (or custard).
Soup of the day
Tomato Soup
Ingredients:
2 tbsp olive oil
1 onion
Garlic cloves, crushed
500g fresh tomatoes, chopped
1 tsp caster sugar
Salt & pepper
Fresh basil, chopped (or 1 tsp dried basil)
500ml of vegetable stock
A splash of cream
Method:
Heat olive oil, add onion and sweat down, add a little crushed garlic and cook for 30 seconds longer until the garlic is fragrant. Next add the 500g of fresh tomatoes – along with the stock, a teaspoon of caster sugar, pepper and salt and a handful of basil.
Simmer for about 40 mins - longer if possible - then use hand blender to liquidise.
Finish by adding a splash of cream before dishing up!
