Autumn Days

With September arriving I always find my mind turns to autumnal food.  We start back with homemade soup, cakes and crumbles.

I made a lovely apple cake from a recipe from this blog.  The cake was delicious and I totally forgot to photograph it before it was eaten!

Now that the children go and stay at their Dad's every other weekend I get a chance to cook my favourites.  At the moment this seems to always involve roasted vegetables, balsamic vinegar and melted goats cheese!

On my quest for damsons to make damson gin we found ourselves in the market.  I was easily persuaded to buy two huge tubs of blackberries for less than £2 and they made a fab blackberry and apple crumble.

Chocolate Bread

Ok so first an apology, this recipe was sooo good the whole loaf was eaten before I could take a photo!  It's a really simple recipe from A Girl Called Jack blog, although I cheated and used my bread machine to do the hard work.

The recipe is here.  I used cold water and kept my chocolate pieces quite big as I wanted more chunks than chocolate dough.  I also didn't melt the butter, I just bunged everything into the bread machine and used the dough setting, then turned it out and baked it in the oven.  It was heavenly warm but was still really good the next day when the children were let loose on it!