Fruity

I have two fruit-related stories for today.

The first one is related to my wonderful new purchase - a slow cooker.  Maybe I am actually the slow one (many would agree with this) for taking so long to catch on to these gadgets, and I only  got mine about 2 months ago.  I love the fact that I can go out for the day while my dinner cooks and the food is deliciously tender and full of flavour.

Today's recipe was pork loins slow cooked in apples. Very simple and took only a few minutes to prepare. The best bit was that I used cooking apples that I found in a box marked 'fallen cookers, help yourself', while I was putting out my catalogues this morning. Initially I thought 'apple crumble' as many of us probably would, but then remembered as I was walking around that I had actually got some pork in the fridge and I would try slow cooking them.  It was absolutely scrummy and I will hopefully be able to get some more next week when I collect my catalogues and make the crumble then.
I am sure other distributors think of much more enlightening topics whilst out with catalogues, but my thoughts are mostly food related.

My second tale is about the amazing Pineapple corer and slicer.  This product sold really well, then went out of stock quite quickly.  As I was explaining to  customers they would have to wait a few weeks for their item, they all said it didn't matter, they just wanted to get their hands on one as they had heard about them lately, but no-one could remember where from.

I decided I had to get one of these for myself, but obviously had to wait like everyone else.  The delivery came in on Thursday, so on Friday I bought two pineapples and set to in the kitchen.  Here are some tips I would like to pass on to anyone using this item.

Look at the diagram in the instructions rather then reading them.  The diagram shows that you cut the  top and bottom from the fruit first, but the written instructions only say to cut off the top.  Well, I discovered if you don't cut off the bottom, you cannot get the corer out of the pineapple.  Also, make sure you stand the fruit in a bowl whilst twisting the corer, or all the scrummy runny juice will flow out onto your counter or chopping board and from there all over your kitchen floor and fridge and oven, and then you will have to buy lots of kleeneze cleaning products to clear up the mess.  But then again, I am sure nobody would be so stupid that they would not think of these things anyway.