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Apples
Why not make some apple sauce! Peel and chop the apples, and place in a saucepan with a little water, lemon juice and castor sugar (maybe some cinnamon too). Cook gently for about 15 mins, stirring regularly. Then whisk or blend smooth. It's lovely with pork but can also be a dessert with cream (fool) or ice-cream.
Cooked apple (great for children’s desserts). Simmered apple slices in a little water with some brown sugar and honey and raisins. You could also use maple syrup. They can be eaten hot or cold.
Swiss muesli. Use slightly soft apples and grate them down to the core. Add a small handful of porridge oat flakes, nuts and dried fruit. Pour milk over and leave in the fridge overnight. By morning the milk will have been soaked up, the grated apple gone brown, and just add yogurt and perhaps a spoonful of honey and enjoy a really healthy breakfast.
Spice up your porridge! Add grated or small bits of apple to your porridge with a little cinnamon while cooking to add extra flavour.
Baked apple dessert. Cook the apple in the oven for about an hour, after you have cored the apple and stuffed with dried fruit, brown sugar and a little butter and cinnamon. A little water in the dish keeps them moist.
Potatoes
Creamy mash! Rub off shoots, cook in boiling water with skins on and then peel when cooked and mash with plenty of butter and milk and salt and pepper. (Mash can be frozen and saved for a later date.)
Delicious chips! Slice the potatoes, thinly or in wedges (with skin on) and cook in the oven coated in a little oil and whatever herbs are handy (cajun or paprika is nice too). You can even add a little garlic for extra flavour. Cook for 30 mins at Gas Mark 6, 200oC.
Bananas
Nutty surprise! Slice banana and gently heat in a frying plan with a little butter and brown sugar or maple syrup. Add an oat cereal and some extra nuts and dried fruit. Presto!
Smoothies! Freeze the banana either whole or cut up into chunks and place in an airtight container. Place the banana in a blender along with two or three other fruits (berries work well) and some fruit juice. Add yogurt if you like and blend until smooth. The frozen bananas will help to see the smoothie cool without ice.
Oranges
Add them to salsas. Chop up and mix the orange with some onion (red or spring work best), some tomatoes, sweetcorn and raisins. Add some olive oil and a spoon of pickles or chutney. It goes great with pork or turkey.
Add oranges to your salads! Oranges taste great in salads and give them a nice sweetness.
Make juice! Squeeze the oranges to make some fresh orange juice.
Tomatoes
Grill them. Add chopped tomatoes to sauces, pizzas or whatever you are grilling.
Mini pizzas! Slice tomatoes over sundried tomato pesto or puree on circles of puff pastry and cook in the oven.
Freeze them! You can freeze tomatoes whole to use at a later date. And as an added bonus when you defrost them they will pop right out of their skins.
Pears
Ripening. Pears ripen from the inside out so they may feel firm on the outside, but ripe on the inside. If you cut a pear before it’s ripened try using it in the Baked apple dessert recipe above.
Melon
Storing melon. Melon can be a great addition to your breakfast in the morning or as an afternoon or evening snack. Simply chop the melon into pieces and place them in an airtight container in the fridge. They should |