Apples, apples everywhere..

[OliviaMumsnet]

what can I do with them all?!
Have about 15 cookers and 20 odd eaters
All looking at me reproachfully from two groaning fruitbowls.

[mumatron]

apple crumbles and send them all to me

no real ideas sorry!

[RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles]

Apple sauce
French apple flan
Crumble - no shit?!
Pork chops/fillet/whatever with sliced apples, have yummy recipe if you want
Apple sorbet
Apple and Cinnamon cak

I can go on and on and on.

[RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles]

Obviously I mean CAKE and not CAK. Idiot.

[pamplemousserose]

Apple butter

[musttidyupmusttidyup]

I have a recipe for 'apple snow' from
an elderly friend who used to make it for her children. Haven't tried it yet but will dig out the recipe for you tomo and post.
Baked apples nice too.

[musttidyupmusttidyup]

cak

[RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles]

Pork and apple Burgers
Apple and Calvados pancakes
Waldorf Salad

[mumatron]

ok, i'll take an apple crumble and one of rocks apple flan's

[RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles]

Fark off. I saw it and made amends.

[RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles]

My dear Mama has about 15 apple trees in the garden. If it can be cooked with apples, I have done it a thousand times.

I shall shortly be starting my own thread asking WTF I can do with 75kg oranges, about 250 pomegranates, 20kg lemons and a million (ish) figs,

[acsec]

I had a nice recipe for apple chutney, you could make some and give it as Xmas gifts as it takes a while to mature before being ready to eat!

[pamplemousserose]

Rockstock, wish I had your problem!

[RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles]

Apple Strudel....
Baked apples
Grate apple into muesli or porridge

[RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles]

Pamplemousse. Trust me you don't. I still have 6 large kilner jars of marmalade. I gave away 8 as it is!

[musttidyupmusttidyup]

'exotic' fruit salad then rockstock

[RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles]

For all of Mumsnet do you think!!! Seriously, I have so many Seville Oranges that I end up throwing some away as I'm sick to death of them. I take a sharp intake of breathe when I see the price of them in supermarkets back in England.

[mumatron]

rockstock just

[amistillsexy]

Apple jelly-
cut up apples into chunks (discard any bad bits but ok to keep stalks/flower ends/seeds, etc)
Cover with water and simmer for about half an hour.
When fruit is soft, strain through muslin (or a clean teatowel ). (NB don't squeeze the cloth or your jelly will go cloudy).
For every pint and a half of liquid, add 3/4 lb sugar, then bring to the boil and simmer until it sets on a cold plate.

This jelly comes out (magically!) as a lovely ruby red colour, and is delicious as a jam, on toast, or in ham sarnis or with roast meats.

We have a huge stash of it already, and I'm making more all the time-no more supermarket jam for us!

[RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles]

[pamplemousserose]

[RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles]

Come, come! We're moving back to England in 5 weeks, so choppity chop. We're in Marbella

[pamplemousserose]

Ohhhh, Mar-Bella...posh, innit?

[RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles]

Oh yeah, it's well posh. We all got plastic bits dontcha know. And permatans.

Or something.

[mumatron]

Ah come on now rocks admit it, you're on one of them super yachts aren't you!

I've got friends near Marbella, it's a lovely place.

Why on earth would you want to move back to the uk from sunny spain?

[RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles]

Mumatron I bloody wish!

It is a lovely place, but I've done my time here now (7½ years) and lots of things have changed/happened in the past year that I just don't want to be here anymore. I am soooooo looking forward to coming back to London. I miss it. I love it. And frankly, I don't give a stuff about the weather!

Where are your friends? I'd laugh if they were near me, or even if I knew them! It's terribly small and insular here.