Food misc

[kaberett]

Gentle murblings about plans for the next few days.

My mother has just given me sack #1 of apples, and I'm going to pick up sack #2 tomorrow while I'm in Cambs (goes the intention). Consequently I am thinking gently about baking. In addition to stewing a lot of them I'm planning to spend Friday making:

(1) Apfelstrudel
(2) upside-down gingerbread apple cake (smitten kitchen swapped some of the molasses for honey then cut the sweetness of the topping -- I suspect I'll slightly cut the sugar for the topping but leave the molasses as-is)
(3) the sk apple-and-honey cake was good last time I made something that wasn't actually it at all and I suspect it will be again (+ some ground almonds in the batter, natch)
(4) macaroni cheese (which is not made with apples)

... and then Sunday dinner is going to be veggie shepherd's pie, I Have Decreed, with potato-celeriac mash and a bit of cheese (and maybe some roasted garlic in the mash if I'm feeling enthusiastic); body of lentils-finely chopped mushroom-celery-leek-carrot-onion-peas-stock.

Comments

[fyreharper]

(Pst it looks like your apple-honey-cake link did not close properly... Since I went OOH LINK at the shepherd's pie and then it went to cake :p which is also lovely but not quite the same!)

I've made the SK upside-down cake before; it was SO GOOD :)

[kaberett]

fix't thank you, and here is my basic approach to veggie shepherd's pie <3

[fyreharper]

Nom :) danke!

[nanila]

As a person in possession of a sack of apples sitting in the conservatory, brought to us by the out-laws on their last visit, can I thank you for all those recipes?

[kaberett]

Ha! You are very welcome.

You can also do the thing where you skin them and chop them up, stick them in a pan with a bit of water, and stew them til they mush. The mush then goes in jam jars, and can be used as filling for apple pies/crumbles/etc or in stewed red cabbage and so on As The Year Goes On. (I have in fact just finished the last jar of same that was in the pantry!)

[randomling]

That sounds like delicious eating. :D Apple and gingerbread cake and apple and honey cake both sound Particularly Amazing. :D