Kangaroo, potato and apple stew

This was originally intended to be a pork, potato and apple stew. This was inspired from a recipe I saw on an app in my iPad (I'll try to find out what it was). In all honesty, pork would have been much better. When the apple is cooked, it has a similar texture to the potato (pomme d'terre ring a bell?) and takes on the flavour of the meat while retaining some of its own flavour, which goes into the broth and serves the same function as vinegar in enhancing the meat's flavour.

Apple sponge pudding

So. I had a tin of apple pie filling to use up. And vanilla cake mix. The two were perfect for one another. Literally all I had to do was pour the batter over a bowl of apple and cook it in the microwave for a couple of minutes.

Apple cinnamon pudding

This is basically a mug pudding. Only, unlike a mug cake, I am doing several things differently. Firstly, I'm using a bowl. This is much easier than using mug because there is more surface area and less chance of having uncooked batter and overly hard crust. Secondly, the batter is simply wholemeal self-raising flour mixed with hot water (although soda also works well), I have swirled stewed and drained apple, sultana and cinnamon into the batter.

When upturned, the pudding retains its structure enough to be eaten off a plate. Success!