I’d love to have an apple tree in the garden.  How cool to be able to step outside and have an abundance of fruit every autumn.  I do have a cherry tree in a large pot – total fruit yield this year: one cherry.  I’m not kidding!  And then I have two slightly more successful raspberry plants which at their peak this weekend produced one cup of delicious home grown fruit. Perhaps it is worth the effort after all.

With my successful cup of raspberries in hand, I thought I’d make an apple, raspberry and pistachio crumble.  This is a very simple gluten free recipe and with the pistachios being naturally sweet themselves, the sugar can be kept to a minimum.

I like to grind the pistachios so that they retain some slightly chunky bits as this helps create a satisfying crunch, and it also helps the subtle pistachio flavour come through nicely against the apple and raspberry.