How about a traditional steamed pudding and custard for dessert, they are easy to make and delicious.
Heres the basic recipe, you can make any flavour you want my favourite are raspberry jam or golden syrup.
steamed pudding
jamie oliver
naked chef
225g self raising flour
pinch of salt
85g caster sugar
115g shredded suet or butter (I use suet)
1 large egg
8 tablespoons milk
Grease a 1 litre pudding basin.
Spoon in your chosen flavour (jam pudding qv ginger pudding, syrup pudding,chocolate steamed pudding).
Mix together (in a mixer or by hand) the flour salt sugar and suet or softened butter.
Then add the egg and milk and mix well. Put into the pudding basin covered with greaseproof paper or a cloth tied with string or tin foil and stand the basin in a pan with water halfway up the sides of the basin.
Cover pan with a tight fitting lid.
Bring to the boil then simmer for about 2 hours topping up with boiling water if necessary.
Don`t let it boil dry and make sure it does not go off the boil.
If you dont have a pudding bowl then use a pirex dish just cover with greaseproof paper or tinfoil the same way. It may seem like 2 hours is a long time to cook but make the pudding first and it can be boiling while you make your main course.
I have made my own custard in the past as well but is a bit of a faff, but worth the effort, it tastes devine but it is quite rich though. You can get really good ready made custard nowadays in most supermarkets version of "the best" range.
Good luck & dont forget to tell us how it goes.