Comments on: My Mum’s Apple cake http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/my-mums-apple-cake Food - Photography & More Mon, 21 May 2012 18:51:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Anne http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/my-mums-apple-cake#comment-23891 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:29:15 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/my-mums-apple-cake#comment-23891 Cid, Many thanks. Would normally like to oblige with recipe but a bit tricky. It has german ingredients that I bring back. You will have to be content with a virtual slice on this occasion. Much more slimming :). Regards Anne Cid,
Many thanks. Would normally like to oblige with recipe but a bit tricky. It has german ingredients that I bring back. You will have to be content with a virtual slice on this occasion. Much more slimming :) .
Regards
Anne

]]> by: Anne http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/my-mums-apple-cake#comment-23890 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:24:28 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/my-mums-apple-cake#comment-23890 Miles & Rod I am blushing :) Anne Miles & Rod
I am blushing :)
Anne

]]> by: Rod http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/my-mums-apple-cake#comment-23888 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:24:31 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/my-mums-apple-cake#comment-23888 Miles <i>Feeling like Henry VIII</i> Not looking dissimiliar to him either :twisted: It was a feast fit for a king which is just as well . . . I'm King of Wybers Wood & Great Coates. Cracking ! Rod Miles
Feeling like Henry VIII
Not looking dissimiliar to him either :twisted:
It was a feast fit for a king which is just as well . . .
I’m King of Wybers Wood & Great Coates.

Cracking !
Rod

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/my-mums-apple-cake#comment-23887 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:29:38 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/my-mums-apple-cake#comment-23887 Cid, It's hardly the stuff of 'A Christmas Carol'....my brother and I despite our advancing years still fight like cat and dog over the roast potatoes. I'm not sure if 'joy' is the sensation my father feels at our presence. Nausea might be more apt :) Miles Cid,
It’s hardly the stuff of ‘A Christmas Carol’….my brother and I despite our advancing years still fight like cat and dog over the roast potatoes. I’m not sure if ‘joy’ is the sensation my father feels at our presence. Nausea might be more apt :)

Miles

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/my-mums-apple-cake#comment-23875 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:18:32 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/my-mums-apple-cake#comment-23875 Miles, That fabulous looking apple cake deserves a post of its own .... perhaps we might persuade Anne to do the honours? I think it's wonderful that you and your brother lunch together with your parents on Sundays. It must be a joy for all of you.... even father, who no doubt sportingly gives up his right to extra helpings in order to feed his two giant sons (softly cursing as mother bags up the left-overs for your brother's benefit :) ) Cid Miles,

That fabulous looking apple cake deserves a post of its own …. perhaps we might persuade Anne to do the honours?

I think it’s wonderful that you and your brother lunch together with your parents on Sundays. It must be a joy for all of you…. even father, who no doubt sportingly gives up his right to extra helpings in order to feed his two giant sons (softly cursing as mother bags up the left-overs for your brother’s benefit :) )

Cid

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/my-mums-apple-cake#comment-23873 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:48:24 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/my-mums-apple-cake#comment-23873 Laura, Tasted even better (should cement my position as favourite son!) Glad the boulangere worked out, I'm doing Welsh onion cake now which is exactly the same! As for the ratatouille much depends on your version really, I tend to stick to a fairly dry combination moistened with olive oil and soft plum tomatoes. If you want something with more sauce then I'd layer the sliced vegetables in a terrine or dish, spoon a couple of streaks of passatta over each layer but no more then finish it in the oven and press it. I've done something similar with a terrine of roasted provencale vegetables, I used some agar agar to set a saffron infused vegetable stock and served it with scallops. Like the sound of the cranberry sauce, nice to see you got the pomegranate in there!! Miles Laura,
Tasted even better (should cement my position as favourite son!) Glad the boulangere worked out, I’m doing Welsh onion cake now which is exactly the same!
As for the ratatouille much depends on your version really, I tend to stick to a fairly dry combination moistened with olive oil and soft plum tomatoes. If you want something with more sauce then I’d layer the sliced vegetables in a terrine or dish, spoon a couple of streaks of passatta over each layer but no more then finish it in the oven and press it. I’ve done something similar with a terrine of roasted provencale vegetables, I used some agar agar to set a saffron infused vegetable stock and served it with scallops.

Like the sound of the cranberry sauce, nice to see you got the pomegranate in there!!

Miles

]]> by: Laura http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/my-mums-apple-cake#comment-23872 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:26:32 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/my-mums-apple-cake#comment-23872 Looks wonderful, Miles! We Yanks feasted like kings and queens this past Thursday as well, you know! At my mother-in-law's house all of her sons and their families gathered and a great time was had by all. Amongst other things, I brought your Potatoes Boulangere which turned out magnificently! If you have any hint's on how to mitigate the liquid in a multilayer ratatouille - let me know. It turned out fine, but it was swimming at one point and I had to siphon off so much liquid, that I'm sure there must be a better way - eh, Chef? Also made a tart cranberry sauce that went well with the meat that had, orange, black pepper and pomegranate molasses in it - yum! Looks wonderful, Miles!

We Yanks feasted like kings and queens this past Thursday as well, you know!

At my mother-in-law’s house all of her sons and their families gathered and a great time was had by all. Amongst other things, I brought your Potatoes Boulangere which turned out magnificently! If you have any hint’s on how to mitigate the liquid in a multilayer ratatouille - let me know. It turned out fine, but it was swimming at one point and I had to siphon off so much liquid, that I’m sure there must be a better way - eh, Chef?

Also made a tart cranberry sauce that went well with the meat that had, orange, black pepper and pomegranate molasses in it - yum!

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