A Gift of Organic Apples

Some friends, who were up to their eyeballs in their parent's organic apples, kindly thought of us. What a beautiful gift, that will keep on giving well through the winter. We made oodles and oodles of applesauce, that we put in the freezer for the long winter. We also ate many straight out of the buckets, and have enjoyed some yummy baked apples.

Baked Apples ala Me:

*As many apples as you plan to eat for that dessert

(our apples were small, so we gave everyone two)

*core the apples

*peel the apples

*butter the pan you will be using

(I guess you could use cooking spray, but why?)

*place the prepared apples in the pan

*stuff them if you like with nuts, dried fruit-about 1/2 way full

(we used dried cranberries and raisins, or skip the *stuff* if you like)

*pack with brown sugar

*top with a hunk of butter

*a tiny sprinkle of Real Salt (the kind of salt we love!)

*sprinkle with cinnamon/sugar mix

Bake at 350 degrees~ until slightly soft or to the softness you like.

(we like them a bit hard, so we cook them about 20 minutes)

Grab yourself a bowl. Gently with a spatula, a wooden spoon or cooking tongs; lift that yummy apple out of the pan. Spoon some of that yummy sugary liquid over your baked apple. Make sure it has had a minute or two to cool, of course you could add a scoop of ice cream to help out the cooling factor!

Enjoy!