Trial and Error

November 29th - My other half loves a tart! He's always bemoaning the fact that I don't cook apple or treacle tarts any longer. In fact, an apple tart was his first ever present from me......and I got a rolling pin in return! Those were the days. Anyhow I still had some filo in the fridge left over from the spinach pie and a quick search for 'healthy and quick pudding recipes' brought up a recipe for Apple and Pecan Strudel - assuredly quick and easy by Jamie Oliver. The lack of pecans didn't put me off. Apples were chopped and sliced and put in water and lemon juice to stop them going brown. In a separate bowl I mixed Demerara and caster sugar with cinnamon and nutmeg and then the apples were dried and tossed in this. I did not have much filo left...not as much as the recipe needed but I layered it up, brushing each sheet with butter as I went. I piled in the filling and rolled it all together. Not very neat, but hey! 20 minutes in a hot oven resulted in a crispy pie, filled with autumny goodness. Pie man was well impressed! And the error....well what the photo does not show is the gaping hole in the back of the strudel....as usual I did not read the recipe through to the end so didn't do the tea towel thing to roll the strudel without holes!