The apricot vendor at the laiki gives F apricots for half price (or possibly less). It always seems to be a Euro for as much as she can stuff into her bag (3 or 4 kilos?) She buys from this brother and sister because she reckons they have the best tasting apricots in the laiki - whatever the price; the right balance of acidity and sweetness, decent fragrance and real apricot flavour.
I wouldn't know. I do know there are definitely apricots that are more orange than these ones.
Anyway she always throws extra money in their basket as she is leaving, and probably still got a good deal on the apricots.
Last year F dried many many kilos of their apricots. The kitchen whiffed of apricots for weeks. This year we still have lots of those left in big sealed jars in the kitchen top cupboard
She has been making a pig of herself on fresh apricots. It is no longer surprising to me that her hairless human skin doesn't tan in the sun but has a strange slightly orange hue.
A couple of weeks ago she made something called a clafoutis with fresh apricots, and took it back to the apricot vendors in the laiki. They hadn't believed that she was using their fruit to made 'cake', so she took them one. The following week they pronounced it 'deliceeeous' and confided that they had scoured the internet trying to find a recipe for a similar pie.
F made an extra trip to the laiki to give them a copy of the recipe.
Clafoutis. When they saw that written down they said 'we don't know this English word'. 'It's a French word, we don't have an English name for clafoutis', F replied, and on the way home again went (to herself) 'yes we do - it's' fruit sponge'.
After the bottled apricots, the favorite cooked dessert/pudding in their household was apple sponge: apples on the bottom, sponge mix poured over top, cooked in the oven.
F's Mum was a wizard at it. F's brother called it apple splunge.
F wonders what her Mum would have made of being told she was creating 'clafoutis' as a standard go-to family pudding each time she needed something cooked and quickly.
Clafoutis somehow sounds rather more grand than 'apple splunge'.
What was the go-to dessert of your childhood?
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nooo not spilled pins.. so nice to share the recipes and also that they give her bargain prices. i have never eaten fresh apricots or even seen one. our go to dessert was pudding, chocolate or vanilla, not the instnat stuff now days but cooked on the stove and poured in serving size cups. banana pudding and rice pudding were there a lot and all kinds of pies and cakes. but pudding was the easiest
ReplyDeleteSelf-saucing chocolate pudding baked in the oven. Steamed puddings of all kinds - with jam and custard. Creamy rice puddings. Flaked rice pudding in summer (with some of those bottled apricots). Bananas sliced into custard. Shortcake with rhubarb, or apples, or blackberries and apples. You've got F going now.... And you have missed out on one of life's great pleasures if you have not eaten a really good fresh apricot.
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ReplyDeleteOh yes, my mum was the fruit sponge queen - I think she actually preferred making that to crumble, but I always preferred to eat crumble. Not apples though (I'm allergic to them)... plums or rhubarb... and apricots if they could be got, as they were dad's fave. Must say, I rather envy F's accessibility to all those apricots, for I would surely be making jams and conserves and compotes with them. Some for jars, some for freezer and a whole heap just getting scoffed. Is that sounding familiar>>>??? Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
F's crumble is rolled oats and coconut and sunflower seeds (with a bit of sugar and some oil and water, and cinnamon). That's her go-to for topping all sorts of fruit mash-ups. We used to have acres of rhubarb and I have some early posts about how I favoured the rhubarb myself: straw underneath, wide sunshades on top.... xxx Mr T
DeleteI'm not sure what was the go to dessert of my childhood - maybe angel delight (ha ha) , or ice cream. But fruit sponge and rhubarb crumble, they are definitely favourites now.
ReplyDeleteIce cream. Lashings of it - on bottled apricots of course. In our household vanilla or hokey-pokey. I didn't like the sticky hokey pokey blobs so stuck to plain vanilla.
DeleteMm that self saucing choc pudding was a family favourite when I was growing up and then became the Greek family go to. And we always had lashings of custard on everything. My younger brother inherited the beloved family custard jug.
ReplyDeleteSounds like I'll be making apricot clafoutis tomorrow. Apricot sponge sounds just too ordinary.
You were/are clearly civilized - our custard was poured straight out of the pot! Ive just found a recipe for apricot tart with chocolate tahini ganache which is scresming out to be tried (and way outside the range of puddings my Mum would have entertained).
DeleteWe didn’t have dessert often so we can did it was just icecream
ReplyDeleteBoring I know. But I do like chocolate ice cream the best