"I made the decision to put my foot down with my wife. Mrs Trav always wants fish. Not this year !!.
The end result is, we are having fish.
She won, due to a technicality. Fridays is usually takeaway, and we usually have fish"
I really appreciate your sense of humour Trav, it is absolutely exquisite!
I pan fried some pork medallions in butter with salt n pepper. (Homemade cherry n plum jam on the side)
Salad n avocado and toasted french stick with butter.
Twas delish. 
@tasfleurwrote:"I made the decision to put my foot down with my wife. Mrs Trav always wants fish. Not this year !!.
The end result is, we are having fish.
She won, due to a technicality. Fridays is usually takeaway, and we usually have fish"
I really appreciate your sense of humour Trav, it is absolutely exquisite!
We have a lot of fun together.
When driving back from getting the fish, she was talking about Easter and religion, in the discussion she mentions "all mankind"
I replied, "but you are not all mankind". She says, "well what do you call me". My reply was, "I call you many things, but tonight, I will call you the person that wouldnt't let me have a roast".She said that we will do the roast tomorrow night. YES !
When I was in my mid teens A grumpy old guy owned the local pie shop, and didn't like the kids hanging about the group of shops, however, he made what I thought, were some of the best pastries, and still do.
I was always winding him up, being cheeky. He and I eventually became good friends, he sold the shop but our friendship continued for many years, until his death. He made Loganberry pies and slices that were so good. Whenever a discussion took place about death, I would always say, that when it is my time, I would like to go choking to death on one of his loganberry slices.
Years later, when I began to do some cooking, I would make a loganberry slice, but were nothing like his.
Then tragedy struck. Loganberry Jam became almost impossible to get. Fast forward to about 15 years ago. I had a craving for them, and still no loganberry jam.
I decided to try using Boysenberry jam. Boysenberry is a cross between a Blackberry, Raspberry and Loganberry.
So here it how you can make one.
It can be served with whipped cream or Custard. We like to heat it up in the microwave for 20 seconds and have it with some ice cream.
Pastry: Ingredients
1 x Cup of plain flour (250ml standard measuring cup)
75 grams of unsalted butter ( I always use Allowrie butter)
1/4 cup of cater sugar
1 x Egg yoke
1 x Tablespoon of water
Filling: Ingredients
1 x Boysenberry Jam 455g ( I use “Barkers Anathoth Farm” brand, from Woolworths, not all woolworths store stock it.)
2 700g eggs
5 Tablespoons of caster sugar
2 Cups of coconut
Making the Pastry:
Sift flour into a bowl. Cut butter into small squares and hand mix until it resembles fine bread crumbs. Mix in the sugar. Add egg yolk and water. Mix to a stiff dough & put in the fridge for 30mins.
Preheat the Oven to 170deg ( I did use a 180 temp but found the sides cooked faster, so lowered it to 170)
Line a 20 x 30cm x 4cm (approx inside measurements of the slice tray ) with baking paper and up the sides as well.
Remove pastry from the fridge and roll out on some flour, and place it into the tray. I find this to be fiddly,
often the pastry tears, and makes it a little more work.Trim of any excess with something that wont rip the baking paper
or scratch the tray.
Making the filling:
Spread the jam evenly into the slice tin. ( you can add more jam but need to buy another container )
Blend the 2 eggs & sugar until well mixed, add the coconut & blend till it is mixed, about 2 mins.
Spoon the mix in as many blobs you can onto the Jam, and spread the mix carefully throughout the tray,
taking care not to push it too much into the Jam.
Into the oven and bake for 15mins first, check if the coconut is starting to golden, and you should also see the Boysenberry bubbling, I usually cook for between 20 to 25 mins, but always check after 15mins and check every couple of mins. Around the edges will cook first so don't be too concerned. You can trim them off when you are ready to cut into slices.
What you are looking for, is light to medium golden colour, Not dark. If you feel the need to turn the tray around in the oven, do it.
Once the coconut has a golden colour, take it out to cool.
Remove it from the tray and slice it to suit. It will keep for 4 to 6 days in the fridge if its wrapped in Glad wrap.
Depending on the slice size you will have between 16 to 20 pieces.
Um Trav, A question I have is, (and don't get upset), but
What is cater sugar??
@imastawkawrote:Geez Trav, I had to go searching for cater sugar!!
Scrolled and scrolled, back and forth.
Your mind only sees what it's supposed to be.
I like the sound of that. And I love Anathoth jams.
SpoilerCan I cheat a little and use frozen shortcrust sheets? Just askin'
LOL, I had to edit is a couple of times, and still missed the word.
I tried again and the time expired.
This left only one option, pick on myself.
They are a very nice Jam, as I mentioned in my post, Woolworths do keep it, but sometimes they are nil stock,
and I found one or two stores that don't stock it all.
In the area I live, with 10ks we have 6 woolies stores, I am surprised by the difference in what they stock.
Also have 6 Coles stores in the same distance, and again different stocks.
