Stew, Crumble and Photographs

Here are some photos from my milk making experiment. I made up another batch yesterday and it went really well.

I put it in an old squash bottle.

I have two successes to report today. My first is making stew.

Recipe (this isn't strict - you can use any vegetables)

I used: 1/3 butternut squash

10 salad potatoes

3 carrots

3 parsnips

1/2 a dark green cabbage

3 fresh tomatoes

1 can chopped tomatoes

1 onion

3 cloves garlic

1 can chick peas (garbanzo beans for people in the US)

1 can gungo peas

2 vegetable stock cubes

basil

medium curry powder

200g red lentils

salt

olive oil

Method: again, this is not strict.

- Fry the onion and garlic in the olive oil, in a large pan. Add basil.

- Make up the stock with a pint of boiling water. Add to the pan.

- Chop and add the squash, carrot, potato, parsnip and carrot.

- Pour in the tomatoes and canned beans. Bring to the boil, then simmer.

- Add the lentils. They don't seem to get too 'scummy' on the top, but if lentil froth appears just skim it off with a spoon.

- Add salt to taste. Add more water if it gets dry, and let it bubble away for an hour or so.

Success munber two: Super easy apple and blueberry crumble

Recipe:

2 apples, cooking or eating will do

big knob of sunflower spread

2 spoons of sugar/agave nectar/maple syrup

1/3 cup blueberry juice

cinnamon to taste

a cup of oats

Method:

- preheat oven to 200C

- chop up the apple

- put the apple, juice, a spoon of sugar, and a pinch of cinnamon in a microwaveable bowl

- zap for 4 minutes, until the apple is soft
- mash the apple with a fork

- put the puree into the bottom of a loaf tin

- while the bowl is still hot, put the sunflower spread into it and stir it until melted

- cream in the remaining sugar and cinnamon

- add and mix the oats

- put the oats into the tin, on top of the puree. Lightly press it down

- bake for 15 minutes

Failures: the gluten was awful. I might have done something wrong with it, I'm not sure. It was fairly similar to tofu, but floury and went soggy very quickly. Not a repeater.

Today's experiment: sprouted chick peas

They've been doing their thing for a day now. I'm hoping to make raw sprouted hoummus with them. I'm trying to include more raw in my diet, but find raw vegetables pretty bland.