Okay - so you might be wondering why I haven't been blogging much lately.
Well... I've been being mama socialite. Enter.... Five F
Fish Creek
Fortnightly
Friday night
Family
Foodies
and here we are in our second gathering:
Here are the bits and pieces that we gather by:
The Nitty Gritty:
1. Fortnightly Friday nights on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month – come if you can, don’t if you can’t.2. Bring Homemade food to share. Please bring your own crockery and cutlery if possible.
3. Leave the host’s home cleaned up and sparklier than it was before the dinner
4. BYO - No excessive drinking/disorderly behaviour - be respectful
5. Use Organic and Homegrown (spray free) produce wherever possible.
No coloured food or MSG.
6. No TV/DVD’s for children – just play and friendship
7. 6:00-6:30 eating time
8. Let your host know by lunchtime Friday that you are coming.
9. Sign up for a dinner at your place, we can email nights a month in advance so that everyone knows where the dinner is.
we ate and drank well.
We had a great time and ate some terrific food.
But I must say that the company was even better.
We had osso buco, marinated chicken and cous cous, ricotta and spinach pie, roasted venison, organic sourdough, salads, red cabbage and apple, pesto pasta, homemade ricotta, vegetarian lasagna, apple and berry crumble, and Bavarian Apple Torte.
I can't wait to see what's on the menu for the next gathering!
There were a few requests for my Mother's sublime Bavarian Apple Torte. Don't let the name scare you off. It is a beautiful torte that isn't overly technical.
Bavarian Apple Torte:
crust:
1/2 c butter
1/3 c sugar
1/4 t vanilla
1 c flour
blitz in your food processor till small crumbs, or work thru the butter with your fingers till thoroughly combined with small crumbs.
- press into a springform (I line mine with baking paper on the base)
bake till a teeny bit golden.
Filling:
1 1/2 pkg. Philly Cream Cheese
1/2 c sugar
1 egg
1 t vanilla
process till rich and smooth
pour over base
Topping:
1/4 c sugar
1/2 t cinnamon
4 c peeled and sliced apples
toss together and put on top of filling
use a drip pan underneath the torte to catch liquid drips from wrecking your oven
bake at 190 C for 10 minutes reduce heat to 175 for 10 minutes
add slivered almonds to the top and bake for 15 minutes more.
cool completely in pan
serve chilled with a dollop of vanilla'd cream.
We are pretty keen on any recipes involving apples these days. We've got apples for days around here. It's great to share them too - we really need to get a stall at the end of the drive by next summer to sell our farm goods.
Stay tuned next week to find out about the OTHER group we've mustered up... Mama Connect.
xx Amy
