Thursday 18 July - Pork, Prunes and a Glut of Raspberries

We popped into Lidl for milk this morning, and spotted that their special this week was fillet pork medallions - perfect for Pork and Prunes

The pork was quickly fried, and served with a sauce made out of reduced white vermouth and chicken stock, finished with creme fraiche and some dried prunes

This was delicious, but probably took second place in the meal to the vegetables, which were all home grown, either on our allotment, or in the raised beds in our botttom garden - tonight we had roasted potatoes with rosemary and garlic, carrots and rainbow chard.

We had been given a large punnet of raspberries by my parents, and decided to use these to make a raspberry ripple icecream

The left over egg whites from making the custard base were used for meringues to serve alongside.

Basic vanilla icecream was churned until nearly frozen and then pureed raspberries with a touch of sugar and framboise added to it were swirled through before it went into the freezer to firm up.

This was served along with the meringues which we had baked topped with some chopped pistachios, some more raspberries, and the left over coulis.