Apple & Pinenut Torte

I don't even know what to call this kind of cake, I didn't have a name listed above my oil stained indecipherable written out recipe.

6 Granny Smith apples
1 large lemon (zest and juice)
3 eggs
250g caster sugar
2tsp natural vanilla extract
100g unsalted butter - melted
100ml milk
150g plain flour
2tsp baking powder
100g roasted pecans - roughly chopped
100g pine nuts - toasted

3tbsp caster sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2tsp ground nutmeg

• Slice apple on one of these fancy slicers. to a thin slice (perhaps 3mm). Just remember to core them!!
• Chuck them in a bowl and add all the zest from the lemon and the juice from the lemon
• Set aside.
• Get another bowl and using your beaters/mixer combine 3 eggs, your sugar and the vanilla.
• add milk then butter - for some reason I always add butter to the mixture very slowly, I think it makes the mixture thicker, it might just be in my head.
• fold through the plain flower and the baking powder.
• add yer nuts (pecans and pine nuts).
• mix it through the apples (give it a taste, because it tastes freaking awesome).
• put it in your lined cake pan then dust it with your caster sugar/cinnamon/nutmeg mix
• chuck her in the oven. I guess around 170°c for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until a skewer comes out squeaky clean.

Dust the entire thing with icing sugar, as it looks tonnes nicer :P
You can add sultanas if they are your thing, I prefer not to add them because they taste like arseholes.

There were no images of this kind of cake anywhere, so here is an apple.

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Sweet Apple and Cashew Salad

1 Chicken breast
Small red onion
Avocado
Pink Lady apple
Fresh goats cheese

Toffeed cashews

Mixed Lettuce

White wine

Olive oil

Brown sugar

Garlic (minced)

• Dice and cook the chicken breast in white wine and garlic.
• Rinse all your fruit and veg (because they taste foul when you don't).
• Cut up your onion and avocado in whatever salad-y way you like.
• Cut up your apple into flat pieces (I use my apple slinky machine thing that is pretty much my favourite kitchen gadget - http://www.eziconcepts.com.au/Products/AppleSlinkyMachine)
  If you don't have one of these, suck shit!
• Put your lettuce, chicken, cut up onion, avo & apple in a bowl.
• Mix the olive oil, brown sugar and minced garlic together, dress the darn thing. Sprinkle your goats cheese and toffeed cashews on the top and VOILA!

This does taste just as good without the chicken, just so the vegetarians out there know :)

Terrible image I know, i will take a nicer one next time :)