Roast Goodness.

Saturday afternoon I attempted my second ever Proper Roast Dinner.


For my first one i was lucky enought to have the watchful eyes of the Number 1 Roast dinner maker in the world, my Mum helping me along if i got stuck. She makes a killer roast, it's famous in our circle of family and friends. Every Sunday without fail a maginifcent feast of meat, potatoes, yorkshire puddings, gravy and a ridiculous range of vegetables would be piled up infront of us in the Good Dining Room on the Good China. It's one of my fondest memories.
Now, i was flying solo.


I picked up the most beautiful little organic leg of lamb from le shops. It was so cute and delicious looking, made for two. It was perfect. I had used a simple recipe from The Daily Cookbook for a garlic and rosemary lamb roast. You basically make insicions in the lamb and poke fresh rosemary and cooked cloves of garlic into them, then you rub a garlic and olive oil paste over the lamb and let it sit and marinate for a few hours. I just served it with steamed green beans and sweet and regular potatos cooked in the lamb juice.






My little roast, all marinated and waiting with potatoes for cooking.



Needless to say, it went down a treat with Spomes.







It was most delicious.







For dessert i made The Perfect Apple Crumble. It was AMAZING.
It tasted nutty and sweet and served with a big, dollop of yoghurt it was heaven.

Here's the recipe.

Ingredients

7 large green apples

1/2 cup caster sugar

1tsp cinnamon (ground) --------

1 cup plain flour

3/4 cup (packed) dark brown sugar

3/4 cup rolled oats

3/4 cup coconut

1 tbsp cinnamon (ground)

2 tsp nutmeg (ground)

2/3 cup butter (melted)

2 tsp vanilla essence DIRECTIONS For the Apples. Peel and core apples, then cut into rough 1-2cm cubes.

Pop the apple chunks in a large saucepan and cover with water. Simmer covered with lid on high until apples are tender but not too soft (usually 5-10mins once water is simmering). Drain the apples and place in a seperate bowl to cool slightly.








Mix the castor sugar and the cinnamon through the cooked apples, make sure they are coverd evenly.







For the Crumble.


Combine flour, brown sugar, rolled oats, coconut, cinnamon and nutmeg in a large bowl until evenly mixed through.

Melt butter (i'm lazy, i totally microwaved it) and add vanilla essence to butter, stir through. Add butter mix gradually to dry ingredients and mix well using a fork. Make sure all your ingredients are moist and mixture has a crumbly texture, try and crush all the big lumps. Place apple mix evenly in a casserole dish or cake tin. Spread crumble mix over top of apple and press down slightly so it's nice and flat. Bake at 180 degrees C for 30-40minutes, or until crumble topping is slightly browned. Serve with Ice cream, custard, anything really! I hope you all had a weekend as wonderful as i did.