steak for supper & apple and cinnamon crumpets for dessert :)

last thursday my mum had to rush up to johannesburg for a funeral. we joined her on friday, but on thursday night my brother and i decided to cook up a storm for my father and my grandmother. my brother, who as i mentioned in previous post, is a dessert kind of guy, so he was gonna make his first steak! i have to hand it to him, that steak was perfection! the boy can cook!

here's his steak and salad:

with a little salt & pepper, steak spice and a couple minutes

on the grill, this steak was perfection on a plate!

i have to admit, i felt useless (lol). happy that my brother had made supper, but sad that i had nothing to do! so my brother suggested i make dessert, which came in the form of apple and cinammon crumpets (or flapjacks if you prefer).

from: www.postcardfromholland.com

i use my mum's old recipe in her recipe file (which i go to on a down day just to find some inspiration, or when i'm looking for an old fashion recipe. my mum started this recipe file when she was in university!). it's literally

• 180 g cake flour
• 20 ml baking powder
• 1 ml salt
• 100 g sugar
• 1 egg
• milk (this can'r be measured because i usually know when it's the right consistency)
• 30 g melted butter
• one large apple
• cinnamon

we made one in the shape of an "M" haha

METHOD:

• in one bowl sift your dry ingrdients and add the sugar.
• beat the egg and melted butter together in a separate bowl with the milk and add your dry ingredients.
• mix until smooth.
• in a blender, put in your cored apples (i keep the skin on actually) and blitz. do this until the apples are small enough but not pureed. 
• add into the crumpet batter with a generous amount of cinammon (to your taste). 
• give the batter a good mix and then drop small ladlefuls of the batter into a hot, lightly greased pancake pan.
• as soon as bubbles form on the top of the crumpet it's ready to turn and then allow to brown on the other side before removing from the heat.