Time on your hands – lets not waste it!

Wasting food is bad at any time – even more so at the moment.

I'm as guilty as the next person. Here's my latest “rescue”. I'm keeping track of what fresh fruit I have and particularly which perishes first. I forgot to check the apples. I suppose I thought they'd have a longer “fruit bowl life” than grapes – oops!

Enter my four Pink Lady apples – they were not as fresh as they could have been - here's my solution based on my “I'm not wasting food” philosophy - “Toffee Apples” :

Toffee Apples

4 Pink Lady apples, peeled, cored & sliced

60g unsalted butter

656g soft dark brown sugar

2 tbsp of orange juice

Cook in a large frying pan for 10 minutes, and you get these :

Shazam!

My four apples gave me 466g of toffee apples which I divided into two boxes and popped into the freezer. Serve warmed for a few seconds in the microwave, over vanilla ice cream.

I cannot tell you how good it feels to rescue food and turn it – in this case – into a yummy pud!