Mrs Timihou's Apples.....

That's what we called them when I was growing up, and that's what we call them when my kids are growing up. Mrs Lois Timihou lived in Titahi Bay with her tane and tamariki (who hung out with my Mum and her whanau). It's one of those long family connections, where you still take your car to Glen Timihou to get it fixed, etc. It's a tasty take on apple pie, with an individual-serve, almost pull-apart twist:


Sheesh, and how excited were we to find four, count 'em - four! eggs in the nesting box this afternoon. Go Girls! Poppa always used to say to our chooks when we were growing up "Lay me some eggs, or it's off with your heads!" - ours will be safe for a bit now, for sure: