January 2012 Grocery Challenge

JARUS wrote: »

Valerie 57 " Pudding on Saturday night will be toffee apple tart"

Hi This sounds delicious have you got the recipe please.

Thanks

Jarus Xx

Toffee apple tart - with thanks to the Pink Whisk blog

Make or buy pastry to make a deep 8" flan. I use;
150g plain flour
65g cold butter
25g caster sugar
1tsp vanilla bean paste (optional)
enough water to combine (2-3 tbsps)

Make pastry, wrap in cling film and pop in fridge for 30 mins to chill.
Grease tart tin well. Roll out pastry thinly and line tin. Chill again until firm. Preheat oven to 180 fan, line tart case with baking paper and baking beans or dried rice. Bake in oven for 15 mins. Remove beans and pop back in oven for further 5 mins until cooked through on base.

Filling;
70g fresh breadcrumbs (about 2 slices of bread blitzed)
1/2 tsp cinnamon
2-3 large apples (I use Bramleys but any will do including eating apples). Unpeeled about 550g.
200g brown sugar (I use demerara)
50ml water
10g butter
1tsp vinegar
1 tbsp golden syrup

Once the tart is cooked add the breadcrumbs completely covering the base.
Peel and core apples and dice into fairly small chunks. Spread over breadcrumbs covering the top of the tart.
Add sugar, water, butter, vinegar and golden syrup to pan and heat gently so butter melts.
Turn heat up a little and cook mixture until sugar is disolved completely. You shouldn't feel any grainy crystals when you stir it.
Slowly and carefully pour toffee sauce over the tart, trying to cover all diced apples.
Bake in oven for 25-30 mins.
Dust with icing sugar. Serve warm with cream or custard or ice cream. Cold is nice too.

Hope you enjoy.

Evening everyone - just popping in to declare a spend of £3.10 on sugar, eggs and some toffees (oops).
The sugar and eggs are already at work turning 4 black bananas into yummy muffins.

Was meant to have SC Sweet Chilli Sausages but it looks like the kids have been guzzling the ketchup, so that's a no go.

So I improvised I browned off the sausages (I used MrT Free From) nd took them out of the pan. Chopped up a leek and bunged it in the pan, whacked in a couple of handfuls of frozen peppers. Peeled, cored and sliced up 3 small apples and popped those in. Added a tblesp of flour ( I use Doves GF plain flour) and a tblsp of mustard seeds and a couple of tsp of thyme, plus salt and pepper. Then added half a pint of veg. stock (I use Bisto Best). I had a couple of tblsp of double cream that I needed to use up so bunged that in at the end, though you don't need this especially if you want DF.

I served this with baked potatoes though mash, cheesy mash, new potatoes or bread and butter will go well with it.

This served the five of us plus one for the freezer and it came in at less than £5. I am one happy bunny

PLEASE REMEMBER TO CHECK LABELS AS INGREDIENTS CAN CHANGE AND BECOME NOT GF OR DF.

Hello all, I'm afraid I haven't been keeping up with the thread - it moves too fast! However, just wanted to update my current total after shopping today. I went to the market for my veg, meat and eggs and also went to Wilkos for toiletries instead of the supermarket, so my total was £43.48 which brings my running total so far to £282.39/£500 with just over 2 weeks to go until our credit card statement date :j :j :j

Urrgh. £1.70 spent on 2 bottles of Lucozade Sport from Mr S. I went to the gym and needed a boost to wake me up a bit before I hit the treadmill!.

At least I have a bottle spare for next time...