All the beautiful stone fruit collected over summer, the new season apples and feijoas and the zingy fresh taste from berries, it's hard not to bake without having fruit, or in one case beetroot, as inspiration
We came home with some huge funny shaped feijoas (never mind the funny shape, they were delicious), mandarins, some massive kumara (very knobbly shaped and difficult to peel but beautiful to eat), pumpkins & squash and some little golden kiwifruit that were quite hard (the stall holder said they’d ripen up just fine (they didn’t))
She had a bucketful of feijoas from her tree, so before I put the pastry on, I cut some in half, scooped them out and put them cut side down around the apples to fill up the dish
Feijoa zest agar agar jelly. This was Alli's New Years Eve dessert, composed of Gingerbread Sponge, Creme Anglaise, Poached Nectarines, whipped cream and crystalized ginger for decoration
Especially apples, but also pears and rhubarb, Feijoa and pomegranates. Crumbles are a regular Sunday night dessert tea for us as The Anster is the master of crumbles
It works really well with feijoas. One for baking, one for salads, one for desserts etc. Drain the chicken stock vege water into the sauce then mash the cooked brussel sprouts with a potato masher and combine with the sauce mix
