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It's apple season. This means that it's time for my trusty Ezipeeler to be out making piles of curly apple. This week I got 8kg of organic juicing apples from our food co-op.

I have a secret supply of lemons from a sunny town where the lemons grow like crazy. And sometimes when I'm lucky I get a shopping bag or two full of them dropped off by my brother in law.

So when lemons come by the bag full, I juice them! But there's more to juicing lemons than meets the eye. 

Last week I took the plunge and made an investment in a new food processor. Now I won't hide the fact that it was far from the cheapest around but what I can say is that there is no substitute for quality.

I credit this lovely idea to my friend Meg. This was her contribution to the blueberry challenge.

This idea is so simple and it goes down a treat with the kids, or at least Ella who is old enough to enjoy them.

Blueberry Ice Cubes

Take an ice cube tray of choice.

Place a couple of pieces of blueberry and chopped strawberries in the tray and fill with water.

Leave it in the freezer to set.

There you have it. Ice blocks don't come much easier or healthier than this.

Thanks Meg!

We have some very good family friends, the sort that turn up a day early for your wedding and just get stuck in sewing 18 table clothes and peeling and preparing huge amounts of vegetables without being asked. Then on the day they look after loads of other bits that you didn't even think of like making the church look nice. The legendary sort.

Given we are well stocked in blueberries at the moment we have set a challenge to a few who have come through our door:

Choose a recipe and create something using fresh blueberries to share.

They were then sent away with a tub of blueberries for their delight. No deadlines.

My first instalment was blueberry muffins. A classic, not actually intended for the challenge but one that fitted the criteria.

It's so good that our kids think it's ice cream. It may not be revolutionary to some but it sure is a hit in our house.

Freeze some fruit - pineapple, banana, berries. Something else. Experiment. Make sure you peel the bananas first. And ideally freeze the fruit in small to medium sized pieces.

About 5 mins before you want ice cream take the fruit out of the freezer.

Then just put it in your food processor and blend until smooth. Banana makes it creamy.

It's a little less solid than normal ice cream but the batch we had this evening was almost fluffy and creamy. Yum!

PS. This is a great use of all those half eaten bananas that kids sometimes create. I keep a bag in the freezer for throwing any non damaged bits into for baking or ice cream.