Baked Apple

I got this recipe from Glamour magazine and it was super easy and very yummy! The 'stuffing' is a mixture of butter, brown sugar, raisins and cinnamon. The recipe suggested walnuts too but I didn't have any. Next time I will add more of the mixture, I never made this before so I was conservative. It was very good with yogurt, but i bet ice cream would be even better!

An Apple-tastic Dinner

We seem to have found ourselves reaching to complete the apple challenge. Not sure why. Anyway, here is the result. In Alex's family, they used to often have salads with chunks of sharp cheddar cheese and apple pieces in them. We made these salads with red leaf lettuce, craisins, tomatoes, chunks of Vermont white cheddar that was on sale at Giant Eagle, the red apple on the right in the picture above, and a Morningstar Farms product called Chik'n Strips. For dressing, we used a balsamic vinaigrette on one and a shiitake vinaigrette on the other. The salads were awesome, except that we had intended to put almonds on them—Lisa found out that you can toast almonds in the microwave, so put them in there and forgot about them until after dinner.


For dessert, we had the idea to just get some puff pastry and make a sort of apple tart. We thawed the pastry and spread a thin layer of butter on it, then we sprinkled a bit of brown sugar. Next, we laid down the sliced apple (the green one in the picture above), and sprinkled more brown sugar and a bit of cinnamon. Finally, we put a couple pads of butter on top and folded the edges of the pastry around the filling, using an egg wash on the exposed bits. We served it topped with pecan pieces and a side of ice cream. It was, well, yum!

Apple Cake

Apple Cake I made with the apples from Patterson Fruit farm. Three different kinds of apples. Notice the seasonal display. Very tastefull, don't you think?

Bread and Mash

People! Where are your apple recipes?! Ok, I've gone a bit overboard this month but I got a lot of apples at Patterson's and need to use them! They aren't the best eating apples so they need to be put in stuff to really enjoy them.

I found this recipe for Apple, Maple, Pecan Bread and used it to sort of make up my own bread. I didn't put in the butter or yogurt and put in two bananas instead and it came out really great. It needed to bake a good deal longer though.

Martha Stewart steered me wrong on this one. Apple-Parsnip Mash. Not so great.

One Apple Pie

I have a small pie plate from my days working at Williams-Sonoma so Owen and I made a mini apple pie the other day. It wasn't anything new but it was pretty easy and tasty and it only used one apple! I adapted the recipe from some website so I'm copying down the recipe here so I remember what I did!

Crust:

1/2 C flour

2 Tbsp butter

1 Tbsp cold water (or more if needed)

Cut butter into flour, add cold water until it forms a dough. Roll dough in ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 20-30 minutes.

Filling:

1 apple, peeled, sliced, then halve the slices

1/6 C sugar

1 Tbsp flour

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp nutmeg

Roll dough, put in pie pan. score dough with fork. Add filling. Cover with more dough.

Bake 35 minutes. Let sit 15-20 minutes.

Turkey Apple Wontons

This recipe was called Chicken and Apple Dumplings (like the Apple Dumpling Gang! What?! Awesome.) but I used turkey and really, they are wontons. Those chopsticks are all for show, we didn't use them. I've always wanted to make something with wonton wrappers so I was pretty excited to come across this recipe which is why I waited three whole days into the month of October to make them. I boiled them instead of pan-frying. They were grrrrrrreat! I dipped mine in a little bit of soy sauce. And I do mean a little bit. That stuff is salty and I have the low-sodium stuff! If you would like to read about other people's reactions I'm going to put these up on my other blog too.

October!

Apple!