I made my fruit compote today, ready for the week. This is the recipe...

3 apples, roughly peeled and quartered or eighthed. I used Granny Smiths but these aren't good because they mush up.

2 pears, peeled and quartered. You can eat one quarter while you are making it, that is good.

handful of dried apricots. Again eat a couple while you are cooking. Yum Yum.

handful of saltana

water

cinammon stick, cloves, lemongrass (from the jar in the fridge or fresh), ginger (again from the fridge or fresh), nutmeg, slivers of fresh orange rind.

Cook it all up until the fruit is soft. I also added the remains of a tin of plums -- the one plum left plus juice. That made it yummier and pink too.

Play some nice girlie music while chopping it all up. I use and recommend "Trailer Park" by Beth Orton. Then your whole house smells and sounds girlie. You can even wear an apron if you have one.