Cooking recipes

Now this might seem like an unusual combination for a crumble, I have certainly never put pineapple in a crumble before, but Tesco had pineapples reduced price last weekend and I bought one, as you do.  Then I didnt use it, so it sat there in the fruit bowl, the outside of the skin drying out and going a funny colour.  I really didnt fancy eating it raw and I didnt want to make pineapple upside down cake.  At the same time, the rhubarb in the garden is coming along nicely but still not enough for a full on rhubarb crumble - do you see what happened here?

So I cut up the pineapple and cut off any brown looking bits on the outside (the flesh was actually perfectly fine and very juicy) chopped up the rhubarb and put them in the dish with a couple of tablespoons of sugar.  The I wondered what I could flavour the crumble with....ah, at the back of the fridge is half a jar of Ginger Conserve left over from Christmas, I was planning to make Nigellas ginger glazed chipolatas but never got around to it.

So I scooped on top of the fruit.  And so to the Crumble,  I could tell you that I rubbed the butter into the flour and added sugar, but that would be a lie.  Sometimes I make the crumble myself, but I like to have a bag of McDougalls Crumble Mix in the cupboard for speed.

I knew there was about 20g of ground almonds left to, so I threw that in wit the mix and also two tablespoons of the dessicated coconut that I got from those nice people at Healthy Supplies.