Enough with the mushy red food!

Of late, due to poverty in both money and time, I've been eating an awful lot of tomato-based batch food. This week I hit overdose, and came up with some alternative plans. Tonight's experiment foods both have msjackmonroe recipes somewhere in their ancestry.

Mango and Eggplant Curry

Concocted using Jack's Jardaloo Ma Murghi (which produces delightful, but tomato-based, mango variants) and this mango chicken recipe.

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I originally decided against the chickpeas - the dish looked hearty enough without them! Having eaten a bowl, though, it was too fruity, and needed something more savoury to balance it out, so I added a can to the pot that was still on the stove.

And, carrying on with the theme of What to do with leftover fruit, I present:

Apple and Sultana Soda Bread

This is a pretty straightforward variation on Jack's Bramley Apple Soda Bread.

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I think next time I will scatter brown sugar on the top for a caramelised crust effect.

* I seem to have purchased an EXTENDABLE BREAD TIN. I cooked this at 22cm long - i could've had any of about six settings between 20 and 30cm. It made it super easy to turn out - i turned it upside down and extended the tin away from the cake!