For
those who've been used to paperwork of any kind you'll know what I
mean – in theory a pending tray holds the stuff that can wait,
which you promptly then forget, it gets buried and then becomes
urgent.
I
have a cookery pending tray which is not as dramatic – it's the
stuff I want to cook or ideas I have scribbled down as an outline
that I want to develop when I have the time. Part of the contents of
my pending tray are ideas and research I've brought back from
holidays. One of my favourite holiday habits is to research food or
local delicacies before arriving. I don't want to waste time or
forget a thing – it's like a picture postcard but with food.
As
I've already mentioned earlier this summer we had our first holiday
in Dorset – you know because I've droned on and on about the Hive
Beach Café. My Dorset
research told me about Dorset Apple Cake.
I love a mission or a treasure hunt and this sounded just the job -
the sort of cake we like – not light and fluffy! It uses cooking
apples so not overtly sweet. I'm on the case.
Some
time later … it wasn't easy to find but eventually I bought a huge
slice from a bakery in the centre of Lyme Regis. It was as
described, dark, moist and delicious.
Dorset
is a large County and has its fair share of celebrity chefs and their
restaurants – I think I prefer researching cake.
Top
of the heap in the pending tray!
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