From Mississipi to Vietnam in the Recipe Clippings Round Up

Hooray!  Another batch of recipes, been clipped, cooked or baked, blogged and shared for Recipe Clippings. Many thanks to all who joined me for the February Challenge.


1. Rachel Cotterill - Mississippi Mud Pie 
2. Baking in Pyjamas - Jaffa Cake Tea Bread
3. Onions and Paper - Pastitsio


4. Cloud of Cookmorphosis - Bun Mam: Vietnamese Fermented Fish Vermicelli Soup
5. Lancashire Food - Almond Sponge Topped Apple Pots
6. Chocolate Log Blog - Lemon Coconut Cakes with Freekah Flour


If you would like to find out more about Recipe Clippings please visit the page and come back and join in when the March Recipe Clippings Challenge is posted.

Labels: Almond, Apple, cake, coconut, Freekah, Jaffa Cakes, lemon, Mississippi Mud Pie, Pastitsio, Recipe Clippings, Vietnamese

posted by Janice @ 19:00 1 Comments

Sweet Apple Slices for Random Recipes #44

I've been a bad, bad girl. It's been such a long time since I've played at Random Recipes with my friend Dominic from Belleau Kitchen and I feel bad about that because it's one of the most fun blog challenges and has led me to make some interesting recipes and to use cook books that have lain unopened on the shelves for years.
So to make up for that my Random Recipe #44 'something sweet - random internet search', is a bit of an apple for the teacher. As my usual way of finding recipes is to go to that great big search engine in the sky and see what delights it offers me, this was a breeze - I searched for something sweet with apples.  Sweet Apple Slices was the first recipe that caught my eye, slices of apple cooked briefly in a simple syrup and baked in a low oven.

The apple slices were crisp at the edges but still slightly soft in the middle with a thin layer of caramelised sugar on top. I ate them right away and they were really good, the apple flavour was intensified by the heat and caramelisation.  I don't think they would keep very long, but they do look pretty, don't you think?

I'm hoping my apple for the teacher will endear me to Dom enough for him to include my variation on a recipe in Random Recipes #44, that and the fact that I changed the whole of the Slow Cooker/Cooked Challenge to allow him to participate without a Slow Cooker!

Labels: Apple, caramelised, Healthy, Random Recipes, snack, Sweet Apple Slices

posted by Janice @ 18:08 10 Comments

Celeriac and Apple Remoulade with Smoked Cheese Dressing

This is the second of my recipes using Applewood Spreadable, be sure and have a look at the Kale, Pumpkin and Smoked Cheese Tart .

I received a lovely hamper of ingredients along with some samples of Applewood Spreadable and one of the things in the hamper was a celeriac.  Celeriac is a root vegetable with a slight celery flavour, it's delicious raw or cooked, but it's one of those vegetables I often forget to look for and buy.

Remoulade is a classic way to serve celeriac, it's usually a mix of mayonnaise and mustard but I have adapted it to incorporate Applewood Spreadable and I found that the mild smoky flavour worked really well with in the dressing for the remoulade.

Celeriac and Apple Remoulade
1/2 a medium celeriac, peeled and cut into julienne strips

1 large sharp apple, peeled and cut into julienne strips
juice of 1/2 a lemon
50g Applewood Spreadable
1tbsp mayonnaise
2 tbsp Greek yogurt
salt & freshly ground black pepper
a little chopped dill

1. Mix together the celeriac and apple julienne strips with the lemon juice.
2. Make the dressing by mixing the Applewood Spreadable, mayonnaise and Greek yogurt, season to taste.
3. Mix together the julienne strips and the dressing, add about tsp of chopped dill and stir through.
4. Serve with cold meats, such as ham or cold roast beef or with any other dish where you would usually serve coleslaw.



I received samples of Applewood Spreadable Cheese and a hamper of food products to use in the competition, I have not been paid for this post and all opinions are my own.

Labels: Apple, Applewood Smoked Spreadable, celeriac, Celeriac and Apple Remoulade, remoulade, salad.

posted by Janice @ 18:27 5 Comments

Apricot and Apple Chutney

I have a passion for apricots. I like them fresh and I like them dried and I particularly like them in jams and chutneys.  My neighbour gave me some apples from her tree and I always have a pack of dried apricots in my cupboard, so I thought I'd make some chutney.

Apricot and Apple Chutney (makes a couple of jars, multiply the quantities if you want to make more)

150g dried apricots, chopped
225g chopped, peeled apples (about  2 apples)
180ml vinegar
40g sultanas or raisins
2 cloves garlic, peeled and finely sliced
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp chilli flakes
200g granulated sugar

1. In a large stainless steel pot combine fruit, vinegar, raisins, garlic, salt and chilli flakes, stir well.
2. Bring to the boil.
3. Next, turn the heat down to low, cover the pot and simmer for about 10 minutes, or until the apricots have plumped up.
4. Stir in sugar and return to a simmer, cook uncovered, stirring until the mixture is thickened.
5. Sterilise your jars by rinsing in very hot water, then baking upside down in a low oven until the steam has evaporated.
6. Ladle the chutney into the jars and let it cool a little before covering with a screw top lid.

Recipe adapted from a recipe on Food.com

I'm entering the Apricot and Apple Chutney in the Home made and well preserved challenge at A Little Bit of Heaven on a Plate

Labels: A little bit of Heaven on a Plate, Apple, Apricot, challenge, chutney, Home made and well preserved, preserves, vinegar

posted by Janice @ 11:50 6 Comments

Dorset Apple Cake for Best of British

After our visit to sophisticated, metropolitan London, the Best of British Tour moves back to the country as we sample the food of Dorset.

Karen at Lavender and Lovage is the generous host for Five go mad in  Best of British in Dorset.  I have to say that I wasn't really aware of a particular cuisine for Dorset, but on further investigation I found that Dorset Apple Cake seemed to be a specialty.

Dorset Apple Cake

225 g butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
225 g caster sugar, plus extra for dredging
3 large eggs
225 g self-raising flour
2 tsp baking powder
25 g ground almonds
450 g cooking apples, peeled, cored and chopped and then tossed in juice of 1 lemon

Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas 4. Grease a deep 23-24cm springform cake tin and line with baking paper.

Cream together the butter and sugar in a bowl until pale and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time until combined

Sift the remaining flour and the baking powder into the bowl and fold in with the ground almonds. Add the chopped apple pieces and stir until thoroughly mixed.

Spoon into the prepared cake tin, smooth over the top using the back of a spoon. Bake in the oven for 1 hour or until well-risen, brown and a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. If the cake starts to look a little too brown, cover with a sheet of baking paper after about 45 minutes.

Leave to cool in the tin. Serve the cake and dredge with extra caster sugar. Cut the cake into generous wedges and serve with clotted cream.

I'm not sure if it was this particular recipe or the apples I used, but I found this cake rather bland.  In future I would add some cinnamon or other spice to boost the flavour.  Then again, I didn't have any clotted cream to serve it with, so maybe that would make the difference.

Labels: Apple, apple cake, Best of British, cake, Dorset

posted by Janice @ 21:33 8 Comments

Apple and Raisin Compote for Random Recipe #19

It's 'back to basics' at Random Recipes this month, just the pure and simple Random Recipe Challenge.  I took the lazy route of shutting my eyes and pointing at my book shelves, rather than doing things by numbers, but the random book I chose was Rose Elliot's "The New Vegetarian Cookbook".  There isn't anything much new about it now as it was published in 1986!  It's a great little book so if you don't own a copy, look out for one.

Again, I just 'let the book fall open naturally at the place' (fans of Ivor Cutler may appreciate that) and found myself at p75 in the Quick Main Meals section.  I chose to make the Apple and Raisin Compote because I had some apples which arrived in my grocery delivery in a somewhat bashed state, not great for eating but perfect for cooking and holding their shape.  I combined them with some Bramley cooking apples which cook down to a nice mush.

Apple and Raisin Compote

750g/1 and a half pounds cooking apples, peeled, cored and sliced
2 tsp honey (recipe states 2 tbsp but I found 2 tsp to be enough, I used Scottish Heather Honey)
1 small, well scrubbed orange
pinch of ground cloves
50g/2oz raisins

To serve: Greek Yogurt (I used 0% Fat Greek Yogurt)

Put the apples in a heavy-based saucepan with the honey, orange rind and juice, ground cloves and raisins.  Heat gently for 10 minutes until the apples are tender.   Serve hot or cold with the yogurt.

Easy isn't it?  But I tell you the smell of the honey, apples, cloves and orange was divine, I wish I could share it with you.



I used the photo of this recipe for the 365+1 photo prompt/digital layout that I do on my other blog for crafting,  Serial Crafter, I thought I'd share the layout here too!

Labels: 0% Greek Yogurt, 1986, Apple, compote, Ivor Cutler, raisins, Random Recipes, Rose Elliot, The New Vegetarian Cookbook

posted by Janice @ 19:45 8 Comments

Mincemeat and Apple Cups

I'm still looking for ways to use up the mincemeat I made for Christmas.  A quick scout round the BBC Good Food website and I found this recipe for Sticky Apple Cups and used the basic idea of scooping out the centre of the apple, but instead of making a mixture of dried fruit and sugar, I filled mine with mincemeat, surrounded them with orange juice and cooked in the microwave on medium for 5-7 minutes until the apples were soft.  I served the apples with vanilla icecream.

It was  a super easy dessert although I would recommend a fork and spoon to scoop out the apple.

Labels: Apple, BBC Good Food, dessert, microwave, mincemeat, orange juice

posted by Janice @ 21:57 7 Comments

Blackberry and Apple Cobbler

or rather...Blackberry and Apple Cobble!  I think I should have chosen a shallower dish for this as the cobber pieces all joined together into one big cobble!  It did taste delicious though!




4. Scatter clumps of the dough over the fruit - don't cover completely.  Spinkle with the demerara sugar and bake for 40 minues, or unitl the fruit is tender and the cobbler golden.

Labels: Apple, blackberries, Bookmarked Recipes, buttermilk, Cinnamon, dessert, Dinner Tonight, Woman and Home

posted by Janice @ 20:38 18 Comments

Toffee Apple Yogurt Muffins

I wanted to use up the last of the apples I got from my neighbour and also the last of the Total Greek Yogurt, so I adapted a basic muffin recipe to include these ingredients. I also found half a bag of fudge pieces in my cupboard so threw them in as well.  The mixture was quite dry but the muffins turned out really moist and they also kept well and were delicious when warmed through in the microwave for 20 seconds.

50g/2oz fudge pieces

4. Spoon the mixture into greased muffin tins or paper cases.  Bake for 20-25 minutes until well risen and firm to the touch.  Leave in the tins for a few minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool.  Serve warm or cool.

Labels: Apple, Muffins, Toffee

posted by Janice @ 22:39 3 Comments