Monday – ate out with the kids as a treat
Tuesday – kids had crumbed/breaded chicken, mac’n'cheese, peas, corn and carrots. Pasta with chicken, pesto, cherry tomatoes, broccoli and parmesan
Wednesday – leftovers from Tuesday
Archive for March, 2008
Saturday and Sunday ( 1 & 2 March)
Saturday – pizza after a playdate that finished later than we expected
Sunday – dinner at Alison’s. We made apple pie for dessert.
This is the Country Apple Pie recipe from the AWW French Cooking Made Easy cookbook
Pastry
1 3/4 cups plain flour
1/4 cup self raising flour
1 tablespoon icing (confectioner’s) sugar
1 egg
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 egg white
2 tablespoons apricot jam
Filling
5 large apples (I always use green ones, usually Granny Smith)
1/4 cup water
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspon grated lemon rind
To make filling, place apples and water in a large pan, bring to the boil and simmer over low heat, covered fo 5mins. Stir in sugar and rind, cool.
To make pastry, combine flour and sugar, rub in butter, Add the egg and enough lemon juice to make a firm dough. Refrigerate for 30 mins. Roll 3/4 of pastry out to fit 23cm (11″) pie / flan dish. Cover pastry case with baking paper and rice/beans and bake for 7 mins at 210C/425F. Remove paper and beans and bake a further 7 mins. Spread cooled filling into pastry case. Roll remaining pastry out to 3mm (1/8″) thickness and cut into thin strips. Place over pie in lattice pattern and brush with egg white. Bake at 210/425F for about 20 mins or until pastry is golden brown. Brush warm pie with jam.
