Canned Peach Delite

END OF PART 1


For many of us who had planned our lockdown grocery shopping, we would be reaching the leftovers  stage right about now.


We've cooked and baked, fried and braaied. Learnt how to sauté, flambé and other fancy french terms.  Yes, we could make it on Masterchef or so we thought we wanted.  Turns out this cooking for a living gig is not for everyone.

Coming up with innovative ways to serve basic foods is an  exhausting and thankless job.  You've just served your masterpiece which was scoffed down in under 10 min.

"That was great, mum.  What's for supper?"  Aaarg!

 One of the big lessons for most of us during this lockdown should be that we, households waste a mountain of food.

For example, food that needs to go into the bin, gets a special place in my freezer.  I hate maggots in my bin.  So come Bin Pickup Day, I take out my frozen heap of food waste, dump the unrecognizable blob into the black bag and leave it on the roadside for the garbage collector to take away.


Problem is that as the freezer bin fills up, I notice how much of food is actually wasted by my household.  And during these tough economic times, that bin translates into money lost! Scary, yes.

So one way of not wasting food or money is not over-buying or panic buying.

Another way is to learn how to use those half packets of this and quarter cans of that to make a delicious something else.

Don't strain your brain. Let me help you out.

CANNED PEACH DELITE


You will need

250 g coarsely crushed biscuits (I'm thinking half-eaten packets of Romany Creams or Ginger biscuits)
100 ml  cream  (dessert cream or fresh- just make sure is cold)
1 can peach halves (reserve juice)
leftover chocolate (rare, but it happens)

Preheat your oven to 180 deg C.  Add the cream to the crushed biscuits until it forms a stiff mixture.  Place the peach halves in a oven dish and fill each hollow half with the biscuit mixture.  Grate the leftover chocolate over it and bake for 5-10 min until the chocolate is melted.

Pour reserved juice and serve hot or cold.


Simple. Easy. And best of all, it uses up those odds and ends to make MAGIC!

Check back with us for more yummilicious goodness.


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