It's funny - no specific sweets really stand out as "foods that highlighted my childhood". I've never had a sweet tooth. I was the kid who wanted water instead of cordial, and vegemite on Vitaweet instead of sweet biscuits; who wanted Saos instead of cream biscuits, and hated fruit but wanted carrot in her lunch box; and for whom dessert wasn't a great motivator. Desserts that I do remember loving:
- self-saucing pudding (butterscotch, blackberry, lemon - but not chocolate)
- apple turnovers
- stewed apple and cream
- sponge cake with strawberry jam and strawberries and cream
- trifle
- royal icing off christmas cake as I don't like cake
- pikelets (very occassionally)
- mashed potato wrapped in slices of fritz
- really awful bland chicken soup with equally bland scones (wow that's SO not a favourite but is something I definitely remember!)
- baked soy and honey chicken legs
- bolognese
- lasagne
- sausages sliced up the middle and stuffed with cheese, with mashed potato and gravy, and veges on the side
- chicken satay on rice
Apricot Chicken (serves 5-6 times which for us was two for dinner, two for the freezer, and two for leftovers)
4 carrots, chunkily sliced
1.5 chicken breasts, chunkily sliced
4 garlic cloves, chunkily sliced
1L boiling chicken stock
1 410g ish tin of apricots
1 shake of spices (as you like - I used a dash of cayene and some nutmeg, with pepper as well as the stock was quite salty)
Arrange in a deep baking dish in that order. Bake loosely covered with foil, at 200C for about an hour. Stir and add some frozen veges. Bake for a further 15 minutes. Add a dash of cream and stir. Make some rice. Serve up.
Yum. I need seconds.
(Manfriend just leant over and asked me if I had a tape measure. And if not, would it be in my apron. 0_O. We both work at the House of Bun and this is funny in the context of, at work, we do indeed both have tape measures on us. At home, I don't usually have it *on* me but I do own a few... it was just a tad random. And amusing.)
