From russia with love

Went to Russia for a wedding
Liters of  beluga vodka and great food

shopping at the glum

lovely glasses of pickled vodka

great mushrooms in a cassolette of dried pastry....!

loved all about Moscow...

Italian Wedding

best looking party...

VIVA ITALIA!

•  "tout ce que vous voyez je le dois aux spaghettis"

sophia loren

apples galore

TATIN WITHOUT PASTRY

ingredients

coring and peeling

first layer and nutmeg grinder

ready to jump in the oven

even speedy is fed up with apples...

"an apple a day keeps the doctor away"

Of course it's september and we have too many apples..not enough to make our own cider , too much for the house and as we live in switzerland all our friends have the same problem....so what about an apple pie  with masses of apples !?

I had a marvelous apple pie in a lovely restaurant near Angers , chez Michel Trama in Puymirol he is a wonderful chef ...we try and go at least once a year when we drive through France on the small roads in the summer.

he said his recipe dates from the middle ages , I found a recipe in the same spirit in a divine cookbook , by Nathalie Hambro : visual delights . Here is my own version.

the wonderful news about this recipe . no flour , just a dash of butter and sugar...
LIGHT!!!!! and YUMMY!!!!!the tarte tatin that keeps you SLIM!!!!!

ingredients

2 kilos of apples

80grs of grapes
80grs of cranberries

a tablespoon of caster sugar
a tablespoon of butter

grated nutmeg

preheat the oven to 350°F/180°C
line a cake tin (26cm) with greaseproof paper 
peel and core the apples , cut them in thin slices .
the slices are layered in the tin , every other layer
scatter  a tiny bit of sugar , some mixed grapes and cranberries,grated nutmeg and a dash of butter .

bake the tart for three hours and halfway through 
cover loosely with foil.
let it cool in the oven for about an hour , invert
 it on a dish  and serve at room temperature with
 low fat yoghurt or double cream!!!!




NB
I love nutmeg if you hate it you can replace it with powdered cinnamon or vanilla.
It will take you between 30 to 45mns to prepare...depending on how fast you are at coring peeling and slicing the apples...
I am not particular about the type of apples as long as they are not acid. 

tuck in!