Out of Date

Best Before ?

It's close coming up to February which is known in Greece as 'fence-post burning month'. This relates to the shortage of firewood after a long and arduous winter. Fortunately we still have plenty of firewood but I use it as an annual opportunity to clear out the kitchen cupboards of foodstuffs which have sat there overlong.

Following my exploits with the out of date irish whiskies we had sardines on toast for lunch yesterday going back to 2006.

Last night, as I had quite a lot of cooking apples in hand, I thought I would whip up a quick pud of baked apples. I found a jar of mincemeat in the cupboard that has actually been here longer than I have, which I used to stuff the apples. As you can see the best before date is Nov 2005 (for those hard of sight). I think this is a personal best!

We haven't eaten the apples yet as it was a bit late by the time they were cooked, so here's hoping!