Swedish Apple Cake

Today has been the least interesting and most boring and pointless day of the holidays so far and I am starting to wish I was back in Sheffield. Not long to go now thank goodness (7 days and counting) and I have made even more progress with my assignment - amongst many other rather random internet browsing and some cooking to pass the time.

One of the things that amazes me about the internet is the paths between information and the route you end up taking from one piece to another. Case in point today, I was catching up on the overnight tweets and came across one from the Paper Monitor - one of the regular blogs from the Magazine section of the BBC's News pages which is basically the thoughts and musings of the person in charge of reading the newspapers in the morning and picking out the good/interesting bits. Anyway, today he/she came across a recipe in the Guardian's G2 and decided to share it with everyone. Until now I had no idea the Guardian even had a weekly recipe section and seeing as it is one of the papers I read more often (online of course) I'm surprised I was surprised I'd missed this for so long. That was until I went back and read the history and found out that they were actually quite complicated and posh meals more suited to a dinner party than uni nosh. Still, this weeks recipe actually sounded quite nice and simple; so with all of the ingredients (near enough) lying around in the kitchen I set about making it.

It was a Swedish apple cake and the recipe is here courtesy of the columnist Allegra McEvedy who you may recognise from Economy Gastronomy. It is a very different sort of cake to the typical sponge you might be used to and is much denser and more flan-y being only a couple of centimetres tall and does taste a little bit eggy. On the whole however, it is quite nice although I much prefer it hot with vanilla ice cream than the recommended cold with cream - but I will leave that choice with you.

Sadly no picture this time - because, well it just looks like a cake really and the one in the recipe before it has been flipped is much nicer, there is really no going back after flipping it so that will have to do.

An interesting Zane Lowe takeover this evening to make up for the lack of TV. I was a little too over optimistic when I decided that this year was going to be alright for TV programmes but it turns out that someone forgot about Wednesday, Thursday and Friday when designing the schedules. I ended up watching Material Girl this evening and although it wasn't too bad, it seemed like a less funny, British version of Ugly Betty set in the fashion industry in Paris and starring the Lenora Crichlow (the ghost from Being Human). The only other thing I could find was a 'comedy' and I use that term in the loosest sense of the word called Coming of Age and it was appalling. I whole-heartedly agree with the guy who wrote about the proposed reforms to the BBC when he said that they should stay out of the teen-comedy genre. When you compare the programmes made by E4 in the last couple of years - Skins, Misfits, The Inbetweeners for example, they are in another league and the BBC's attempts rarely come close.