DJ - If someone had baked and decorated that that especially for me on such a special occasion, I'd be over the moon!! That was so very thoughtful of you!! I'm sure your friends love you for it!!Chookie - it's lovely to imagine those children picking the first apples of the season. On Friday, DD, DS and I went up to the Blue Mountains - Bilpin and Mt Irvine. We bought three bags of apples at one place - Fuji, Jonathan and I can't remember the name of the third type. - This was through Bilpin . . At Mt Irvine, we visited the Kookootonga Nut Farm http://www.kookootonga.com.au/index.cfm where DS and DD collected around 10 kgs of chestnuts. We tried for walnuts, too, but there were very few left by the time we decided that walnuts would be good, too I was really amazed at the large numbers of Chinese and Korean people who were there collecting bags and bags of both nuts! On the way back, though, we came across a stall selling kg bags of walnuts for the same price as at the farm Thought this would be an excellent opportunity to make your Fig and Walnut Roll http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=11905.0 Just need to round up the dried figs!When we got home, DD made the Apple Crumble from My Way of Cooking p. 222 - one of the quickest and most simple desserts to make! The filling is simply apples, lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon. The crumble just butter, sugar, flour and salt. Hot out of the oven and with a dollop of Greek yogurt - just superb on a lovely autumn evening!The chestnuts we will freeze (didn't know you could do this until I saw this http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111117070833AAEixs4 )DD is very keen to try to reproduce a chestnut paste she had in France - (I think from memory she said it had chestnuts, sugar and vanilla - if there was anything else I can't remember atm.) She told me she has spent the morning boiling and peeling around 600 gm of them - she was not impressed with their reluctance to separate from the peel . .
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