July 1, 2011: Route Trip Apple Tree Pies

jetting up to Sydney for to a greater extent than or less warmth was a existent treat, I almost prefer hitting the route alongside our friends Mike as well as Jo. We accept this dominion that nosotros accept to halt at every opened upwards small-town op store nosotros pass, nosotros swallow as well as quaff as well as walk as well as play cards, if we're lucky there's a fireplace. We tin never concur on driving music.

Kurma Dasa recipe as well as free-styled the filling. They hold off oozy as well as collapsed when I banking enterprise lucifer on the oven but the pastry held it together equally they cooled; I didn't intend I'd live blogging them. Michael shoved the pastries into a lunchbox field I panicked well-nigh toothbrushes as well as shoes.

Tired as well as coming downward alongside a cold, I slept through the concluding span hours of daylight. I awoke to tranquillity roads, a pretty sunset, as well as the concluding pie. It was pretty damn good! Worth a dim photograph as well as slightly sappy weblog post.

Road trip apple tree pies
(pastry based on this recipe past times Kurma Dasa)

i 1/2 cups evidently flour
2 tablespoons castor sugar
pinch of salt
125g butter
i tablespoon mutual depression temperature water
2 teaspoons white vinegar
three large apples
juice of one-half a lemon
pinch of soil star anise
larger pinch of soil ginger
2 tablespoons brownish sugar

In a nutrient processor combine the flour, castor saccharide as well as salt. Add the butter inwards cubes as well as pulse the mixture until it resembles staff of life crumbs. Sprinkle over the H2O as well as vinegar as well as procedure the mixture until it comes together equally a moist dough. Turn the dough onto a build clean surface, convey it together into a ball alongside your hands, wind it inwards plastic, as well as store it inwards the refrigerator for at to the lowest degree one-half an hour.

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a baking tray alongside paper. Peel the apples as well as roughly chop them. Stir through the lemon juice, star anise, ginger as well as brownish sugar.

Divide the dough into quarters. Place a dough-ball betwixt ii sheets of plastic wind as well as curlicue it into a petroleum circle 2-3mm thick. Spoon a quarter of the diced apples onto the pastry, leaving a 1-2cm broad perimeter clear. Fold upwards the edges as well as pinch them together as well as then that they shape a petroleum wall circular the pie edge, as well as transfer the pie to the baking tray. Repeat alongside the remaining pastry as well as apples. Spoon over whatever sugary juice that mightiness stay inwards the bottom of the bowl that held the apples.

Bake the pies until the pastry is trouble solid as well as golden, 20-30 minutes. Allow them to cool a fleck earlier packing them away to portion on the road.

Healthier Halava

Breakfast series usage xvi
August 19, 2012

Our vege boxes conduct keep of late tended towards to a greater extent than fruit than vegetables. Though I faithfully conduct keep an apple tree to operate each day, bananas in addition to oranges pile upwardly inwards the fruit bowl, alluvion onto the table. Peeling in addition to freezing bananas delayed the occupation a while, but they notwithstanding needed eating. It's besides mutual frigidity for smoothies in addition to I wasn't inwards the mood for my usual banana baking... somehow I hitting on the persuasion of mashing bananas into halava. 

This truly proved the perfect remedy for my reservations almost the master copy recipe. The bananas' sweetness in addition to smoothness meant I could cutting the carbohydrate yesteryear to a greater extent than or less other half, in addition to the butter yesteryear almost every bit much. The texture's different, too. Fresh out of the saucepan this halava is mushier in addition to less fluffy than the original, in addition to and thus it stays soft in addition to silky afterwards days inwards the fridge.instead of setting to a grainy fudge.

I've been eating my breakfast pudding alternately amongst a mug of hot tea or a drinking glass of mutual frigidity milk.

Healthier halava
(adapted from this recipe)

iii 1/4 cups water
1/2 loving cup brownish sugar
40g sultanas
grated zest of ii oranges
100g butter
1 1/2 cups semolina
1/3 loving cup walnut pieces
3/4 loving cup dates, chopped
iii bananas

In a medium-large saucepan, stir together the water, sugar, sultanas in addition to orangish zest. Bring them to the boil, amongst a dyad of stirs along the means to dissolve the sugar, in addition to thus plough the oestrus off in addition to laid upwardly aside.

In a large saucepan, melt the butter over depression heat. Add the semolina in addition to gently roast it inwards the butter for twenty minutes, stirring regularly for fifty-fifty cooking. Add the walnuts at the 10-minute mark. It should odour cracking 1 time it's done!

Gradually pour the carbohydrate syrup into the semolina, stirring every bit you lot go. Keep stirring the pudding, letting the grains soak upwardly all the liquid. When it's all absorbed, crush the bananas in addition to plication them in, in addition to thus stir inwards the dates. Cover the saucepan amongst a chapeau in addition to conduct keep it off the heat, allowing the pudding to steam similar this for almost 10 minutes earlier serving.