We went out to the fruit garden and helped Aunt E pick the last of the apples from her trees. Her vegetable plots have been cleaned and covered to await winter. Autumn is ending very soon.
"These are cooking apples," she said, slicing one for us. "Not sweet. But it's alright." She had another batch of apples 2 weeks ago. She made a tray of apple crumble from them and served them with vanilla bean ice cream. Yummy. She knows that the man likes desserts better than I do, and how much I like apple-anything. Heh.
She knows that I'm hopeless in the kitchen. She's toying with the idea of making 2 more trays of apple crumble and not bake them, but freeze them. Then I could take it back to Singapore and bake them in my own oven. She laughed and said it wouldn't be so bad to just slot it in and turn up the heat. "What can go wrong?"
My eyes grew wide and violently declined it. The last time I attempted a half-hearted bake from the pre-mix, I blew out the oven. I'm never going near the oven again without supervision. Skype and phone texts won't help either. There's got to be a human doing it for me. :p
12 comments:
Your fear of ovens and baking is entirely unjustified. I volunteer to help you get over it :)
dawn: you must be joking. why don't i squat in a corner in your kitchen and WATCH YOU bake? i will cover my eyes once in a bit and promise not to stick a leg out to trip you. and perhaps play with the cats!
We can work you through this Impy - promise :)
sigh. i am with your g/f on this one. you can do this...
ps frozen apple crumble pie is botch-proof. promise!
You're so blessed with such a lovely aunt!
lol. it won't be that bad. even i can bake. by that i mean putting something frozen in and taking it out baked. :P
Aunt E is such a sweet person. as sweet as all the apple pies she bakes! you're one lucky gal. :)
Just got back from Paris.
Bliss!
dawn + sinlady: nope nope nope. not trying!
ice: she's very sweet. unlike the rest of the RUDE and ANNOYING ones. Hehehe.
tuti: heheh. i don't dare to try!
kachunknorge: Wooots. How very chic. :)
With LOTS of new clothes - 30+kg to be exact :)
Afterall "fashion" and "Paris" DO belong together in the same sentence. And tax-free shopping to boot.
Not forgetting Laduree desserts of course... burp.
kachunknorge: which reminds me, i'm going to do the touristy thing and EAT at Laduree cafe at Harrods.
Apple-Picking! How cool is that? I only read them in books and watch them on TV!!
pebbles: we've such a different lifestyle in sgp. :( so if we live in central london, we won't get to pick apples too! only if we live outside of london. but some of those houses with a garden- the stock ones, i call them, are very very small. eeeks.
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