cooking

Picking up a few windfalls in the garden and having bought a tub of stem ginger 'shavings' from the local market I thought the two ingredients would compliment each other in a crumble.

APPLE AND GINGER CRUMBLE

900 g/2lbs  dessert apples + 1tbs water + 1tbs sugar

1tbs or more chopped stem ginger

225 g/8 oz plain flour

115 g/4 oz butter

115 g/4 oz caster sugar

1tsp ground ginger

Preheat the oven to 190 C/375 F/Gas Mark 5.

I just want to flag up the Blog Alice has just started Bake n'Beebz It's about a girl, a dog and cooking. Lots of mouthwatering recipes but with a healthy twist even ones for dogs!

At the front of the house we have a bank of lavender, it smells wonderful as you brush past it, especially with a wheelie bin! I have seen recipes for lavender biscuits but have not tried them, today I rectified that. I chose a recipe from Meeester Nik it looked like the biscuits would be light and fragrant, and they were.

Today I'm making a spinach and cheese pie, all the family love it. For this recipe I use cottage cheese, feta cheese and pine nuts would be the authentic choice but this tastes good!

Yesterday in the garden we had two foxes, out in the day time. Obviously food is difficult to find in the snow. Then a heron landed in the garden. He helped himself to the last fish we had in the pond. Even though we live in a city we still see lots of wildlife. I'm baking some apricot Bakewell tarts today.

This is the recipe