Challenge 44: Towel Day - 'Don't Panic' crumble

[norfolkian]

Ford Prefect said: ‘I bought some peanuts.’
Arthur Dent moved, and groaned again, muttering incoherently. 
'Here, have some,’ urged Ford, shaking the packet again, ‘if you’ve never been through a matter transference beam before you’ve probably lost some salt and protein. The beer you had should have cushioned your system a bit.’

 

For this challenge (which I LOVE, by the way), I took inspiration from the bit quoted above from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I largely followed this recipe from Jack Monroe for Beery Berry Crumble, but I did 50g oats and 50g crushed salted peanuts in the crumble (I roughly crushed the peanuts using a pestle and mortar). The texture and slight saltiness of the peanuts worked really well with the beery fruit. :)

I used dark muscavado sugar in the fruit mixture and white caster sugar in the crumble (as that's what I had in), but in my experience with crumbles golden caster sugar works really well in crumbles too.

A crumble fit for eating after going through a matter transference beam. :)

Challenge 44 - Towel Day: So long, and thanks...

[el_staplador]

... For all the fish. Baked salmon.

Ingredients
2 salmon fillets
A couple of sprigs of fresh herbs (having no dill or fennel, I used lemon thyme)
Olive oil
Lemon juice
salt and pepper

Equipment
Oven
Kitchen foil (or, if it turns out when you start cooking that there's only 6" left, greaseproof paper and a stapler)
Roasting pan or similar

Method
Preheat oven to 200degC. Lay the foil in the roasting pan and put the salmon fillets on top. Lay the herbs over the top, season with salt and pepper and drizzle a little olive oil and lemon juice over. Fold the foil up into a parcel and cook in the oven for about 15 minutes.

I served it with rice and steamed runner beans.