Apple Crisps

I eat more fruits during Ramadan compared to the rest of the year. What I need to try to do is incorporate fruits into my regular diet; you know try the whole 5-a-day thing. To be honest it can get a bit boring.  As I can’t stand watermelon or pears I am left with pineapples, bananas, oranges, apple or grapes. #rollingmyeyes.

I went to the supermarket to see if I could discover new fruits. Well what I really mean, is to see if I could afford to buy the “exotic” fruits, which only translates to “imported”. I selected four of those perfectly shaped, firm tomatoes (did you know tomato was a fruit?), some juicy plums and gorgeously red strawberries. As soon as I saw the strawberries I thought of cream so I walked to the dairy shelf and picked a can of whipped cream.

It’s on tonight!

Juicy plums to break my fast, nicely sliced tomatoes to add to my salad to accompany my rice and dodo plus strawberries and cream to finish my meal off as dessert! It was going to be a glorious iftar.

As the lady at the counter started ringing up my goods, my eye sockets got larger with each additional item. At a point she turned to look at me as if to ask “aunty are you ok?”

“Aunty your bill is N10,495” checkout lady says to me.

I swallowed hard!

For what? I ask myself.

My perfectly shaped tomato started to look abnormal to me. All of a sudden the juicy plum began to rot like a movie on fast forward. The gorgeously red strawberries I saw earlier looked discoloured. Jokes!

“Aunty, I say your bill is N10,495” check out lady repeats.

I looked straight into her eyes, with no shame whatsoever and said to her I had changed my mind. I cannot shout abegi! Ahn ahn, I shall go and manage my “boring” fruits.

Honey Dried Apple Crisps

1.     Preheat your oven to 140^oC and warm about five tablespoons of honey in a saucepan over low heat until it is runny.

2.     Using a very sharp knife, slice two pink apples thinly into rounds, say about 3mm thick. Arrange the slices on a wire rack and brush one side of each slice with the runny honey and bake.

3.     After 15 minutes, turn the apples over and brush the other side with honey and bake for another 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.

4.     Lay the baked apples on a sheet of baking paper and leave to cool.