How To Make Apple Crisps

Apple Crisp

I must remember that any consolation is not always in chocolate and that there are healthy alternatives are just as good and easy to do such as apple crisps. A good apple crisp with start with a sweet apple ; after all it was hardly a tart apple that incite Cinderella after all! And whilst you might think that a tart apple will sweeten up with baking or putting sugar on it ( which is not really what we are aiming for her in a healthy snack) I want an apple crisp than will not make my lips pucker up in a Oh My Goodness manner.

I want my Apple crisps to make my lips an OOOh my that is SOOOO good , food talks to you and in turn your reaction to it will influence you and other people.


Ingredients


ERRRM apples

You can core them if you wish or just slice avoiding the core .



Method

Preheat your oven to 120 C

Now you'll either have slick sling skills or you have at your fingers tips a mandolin.


Having sliced your apples ooh so whisper thin.

Place them on a greased proof paper lined baking tray.

Bake for 45 minutes to an hour keep checking on them.

Leave to  cool until crisp <<<< laughs at own joke.

Never Forgetting The Holocaust

I'm not going to get into a page 3 debate , it is not my fight or my cause and I'm leaving it all well alone , one can be afraid of tackling subjects with a tinge of risk but when there is a back story I'm intrigued and beguiled. This is not going to be a post on that subject but the human primeval instinct has always been there and what I saw last on television is testament to this.

I can't possibly do justice in a short blog post Freddie Knoller and how as a young Jewish man he had a turbulent time and what he did to survive. He spent 2 years hiding in Paris's red light district showing the Germans to the night clubs and brothels , survival.

The quote below is from Freddie Knoller

'I was fascinated,' he says. 'This was the naughty district of Paris that I had read so much about. I was standing in front of the Folie Bergere which was in Montmartre and I saw these photos of the half naked dancers on the stage and I enjoyed myself.'

War made him  in his words selfish but it was survival , such as stealing a piece of toast from a fellow prisoner in Auschwitz , you see see the regret in his eyes when I watched the program. This is one of the most powerful programs I have watched in my life , how we as humans can do this is beyond me sometimes. Freddie shows us we shouldn't be letting this happen again , how idolised causes result in such barbaric death, suffering and destruction.

The holecaust went beyond everything we can know , to know it just happened isn't enough too loosely are the words " this must never happen again "

This was very much brought home to me when in Berlin visiting the haunting and disquieting holocaust memorial.

We must remember

We won't forget

We will remember

Parched Peas With Tomatoes And Chargrilled Swordfish

Black Peas With Tomatoes And Chargrilled Swordfish

• I have never really cooked with black peas or you might know them as parched peas before ,I know you can get them in cans but I had a box in the cupboard to good to give to the annual harvest cupboard clear out.
  
  
  Ingredients
  
  
  200 g of black badger peas which I soaked over night , then rinsed and cover for 45 minutes . You can use them immeadily or freeze some if cooking in larger quantities.
  
  
  2 teaspoons of fresh chopped thyme
  
  
  Squeeze of lemon juice
  
  
  Olive oil 
  
  
  2 tablespoons of fresh chopped chives 
  
  
  2 tuna steaks 
  
  
  Crushed clove of garlic.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Toast pepper corns in a non stick frying pan  over medium-high heat, swirling pan about 2 minutes. Let cool, then crush in a pestle and mortar.
• Combine crushed pepper corns ,tinned tomatoes, garlic, black-eyed peas,chives, thyme ,lemon juice, and olive oil in a  bowl; season with salt and pepper and toss to combine. For 30 minutes let the flavours mix in the bowl at room temperature.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• Meanwhile, heat remaining some more olive  oil in a large nonstick frying pan over medium-high heat. Season fish with salt and pepper and cook until golden brown and cooked through, about 4 minutes per side.
• Serve fish topped with the heated sauce
  
  
  Sauce can be made up ahead a few hours.
  
  
  

My View On Things

Black and Black Photography Kedleston Hall Marvels

This is just a sample of my photography shots in black and white to Kedleston Hall. It's good to get out and excercise your eyeballs beyond your own four walls.