Yesterdays bargains
Yesterday I went to the greengrocers as I usually do on a Saturday morning. I usually go straight to their reduced bins to see if there is anything worth having. Yesterday I managed to find two large bags of kiwi fruit, nectarines and two large bags of grapefruit all for the princely sum of £3. I intend to make a nectarine preserve and a kiwi preserve in the jam machine this evening to put up on the larder shelves.( The jam machine is a boon as it means I can make preserves but get on and start preparing something else whilst it is doing, which means I can get more done in the time availalble to me). Preserves like this can be used for a multitude of uses, as the basis of a sauce, in cakes with buttercream as a filling, as a tart filler, on toast, with croissants. I intend to turn the grapefruit into a curd and use the skin to make home made mixed peel. (Apparently they don't do the compost heap much good). I have never had a go at this before, but to me it seems a very good ...