APPLE & PEANUT

Baked peanut butter apples

*Bramley apples

*Peanut butter

*Cinnamon

*Brown sugar

Core the apples leaving the base in tact

Score round the middle of each apple & fill with the peanut mix

Bake 200°C for 30-40 minutes

A Seed

To fashion a Tree in due course of time;

Tree with rough bark and boughs' expansion,

Where the Crow can build his mansion,

Or a Man, in some new May,

Lie under whispering leaves and say,

"Are the ills of one's life so very bad

When a Green Tree makes me deliciously glad?"

William Allingham

AVOCADO & SUMAC

Avocado & sumac dip

*1 mashed avocado

*½ tsp sumac

*½ lemon juice & zest

*1 garlic clove

*salt

*2tbsp tahini

*Hemp oil

'Thanks so much for this; you're a real friend for helping me out. I don't feel comfortable leaving the flat for so long, not with the cats... You'll like it, it's a nice flat.'  

Will Wiles : care of wooden floors

SWEDE & VANILLA

Swede chips with vanilla mayonnaise

Cut Swede into batons, toss in oil & salt

Bake at 200°C for 45 min

Mix vanilla beans with mayonnaise

There are many realities, not just one.

I like the fact that there is always another way of doing something, never just one…

Dunhill advert

SHRIMP & APPLE

Cider & brown shrimps on toast (Serves 2)

Jamie Oliver recipe

*200g brown shrimps

*Knob of butter

*100ml cider

*Black pepper

*Toast

Heat the butter in a pan & add the shrimps.  Pour in the cider & bring to the boil.  Simmer for 3 minutes. 

Season with black pepper

Serve on toast (with good bottle of cider along side)

At the time I didn’t think I would remember or romanticize about that afternoon.         

ORANGE & ROSEMARY

Orange & rosemary drizzle cake

Drizzle cake sponge with grated zest of 3 oranges

For the drizzle:

*3tbsp golden granulated sugar

*125ml water

*6 sprigs of rosemary
*(Boil and let rest 30mins)

*4tbsp orange juice

Skewer the cake in the tin when it comes out of the oven & pour over the drizzle and juice.

Garnish with extra sugar and rosemary sprigs

My first impression was that he was knowledgeable, sincere, veering on the melancholy side.

SUMAC & CHERRY

Sumac & sour cherry crispbread (Dan Lepard recipe)

100g wholemeal spelt flour

50g white flour

1/8tsp bicarbonate soda

1/8tsp baking powder

Pinch of fine sea salt

15g butter

40g dried sour cherries

62ml water

Sumac

Sea salt flakes

Combine dry ingredients

Rub in butter & add cherries

Add water and bring together the dough

Roll out thin onto a baking sheet & cut into 4" squares

Sprinkle with sumac & sea salt

Bake 220°C for 10-12 mins

The basic elements of beauty, be it a red cardigan

COCONUT & CARDAMOM

Coconut & cardamom porridge

¼ cup oats, ¼ cup buckwheat flakes

1 cup water

½ cup coconut milk

1 tsp desiccated coconut

2 cardamom pods

1 tsp golden linseed

1 tsp wheatgerm

Honey, toasted coconut & milk to serve

He was selling a vision of eternal oranges and sunshine door to door in a land where people ate apples & it rained a lot.

Richard Brautigan : Revenge of the lawn

PEANUT & JALAPENO

Peanut butter & jalapeno peppers on rice cakes

That Autumn my past lay dormant; I belonged wholly to the present.

Simone de Beavoir : The prime of life