[Smudgeboy]

Wotcha peeps

Among the goodies in this week's organic veg box delivery (can't grow it all myself) I found a small tub of small, red gooseberries - about 100g of them.

Anyone got any hints or recipes that will make use of 100g of sweet gooseberries, otherwise I'll just eat them like sweeties!

[HLS]

I'd make a compote with them (sounds better than 'stewed gooseberries') and then use that with something else, depending on how many people will be eating them.

Put them in a saucepan over a low heat (add a tiny drop of water if they start sticking) with a lid on, stirring/shaking occasionally until they burst.  Take the lid off, add sugar to taste and simmer until the sugar's dissolved - longer if you want a thicker, jammier consistency and not long if you want the gooseberries to keep their shape a bit.

Goes very well with thick yoghurt (you can put alternate spoonfuls in a wine/cocktail glass if you want it to look posh), custard, sponge pudding, as a quick 'cheating' crumble under the grill, etc.

Or you could just eat them, of course! ;-)

[Smudgeboy]

Thanks HLS - I'll try that next time.

This time, I fortuitously noticed my Blueberry bush was in full fruit - for the first time in three years! - so I raided that and had enough for a small gooseberry and blueberry crumble.

Mmmm, summer pudding-tastic! 

[HLS]

Never tried blueberry and gooseberry together - was it good?