Plant-based comfort food.

I'm currently in the midst of some intense personality clashes that are bubbling into the political arena and also influenced by things like traditional owners vs outsiders. Anyone who's been involved with activism would have some idea of the sort of in-fighting I'm talking about, and anyone who's been involved with indigenous people would know the added complexities of kinship and country. I'm not involved in the clashes at all, but I'm sort of in the middle because I'm friends with both sides and also a researcher. It's all very stressful, and very exciting, and I'm curious to see how it plays out. The life of a sociologist is never dull!!

After coming home late from a full-on meeting last night where we discussed these clashes for a long time, I wanted some quick and easy comfort food.

I had some apples and pears that needed using, so I got to make a recipe sent to me by the wonderful Vaala of the new-ish Twilight and Shadow blog. This apple-pear crumble was really, really good. The addition of nuts (I used sunflower seeds) to the oat-y topping mixed up the flavour and texture in a really good way. I only made a small pan, since it’s just me at home, but I really could have eaten much more of this. Thanks for the recipe, Vaala!

I felt bad having just apple crumble for dinner. So, since I had the oven on, I threw in some chips. When they were done I topped them with some leftover ‘All American Cheez Sauce’ from Ultimate Uncheese. So yummy.

The cheez sauce had some carrot in it. That makes the dinner a little healthy, right?

P.S. As per Vaala’s suggestion to me, I had half the crumble for brekky the next morning. Yum!