Cookerati

Last weekend, College Girl and her friends stopped by for breakfast.  It was really a fun, loud, easy going, young person’s time at our home.  My husband, son and I enjoyed having everyone there and I made a bunch of different things to fill them up.  I also like to have a variety because not everyone enjoys the same things.  My husband and son helped out with all of the preparations, so it went pretty smoothly.  Most of what I made I stuck in the oven, even the bacon (although I did burn a batch and had to start over).  One of my favorite great food dishes to make is cinnamon apples, and it’s simple too. This would make a great Thanksgiving side dish or dessert.

• Peel and Core Apples (I used about 8 )
• Slice Apples into thin to medium slices
• Put apples into a glass bottom dish or pan
• Pour apple cider over top of the apples – enough to cover the bottom of the pan(probably 1 – 1 1/2 cups).
• Sprinkle cinnamon over top of the apples (about 2 tbs?)
• Mix them together in the dish
• Cover with foil
• Bake in oven at 350 until they just start to soften

It’s like apple pie without the crust.  The insides are my favorite part, so this is my way of eating the insides without the crust. I have also done this in a crockpot and thrown in fresh cranberries and raisins and even toasted pecans.  You can top with ice cream, that will melt on the hot apples.  I don’t have a picture, because it’s all gone.  I didn’t do the crazy lady taking pictures of the food routine for the kids, sorry.

We picked enough apples this month to can.  Instead of apple sauce, we do apple slices – which is kind of this recipe on a humongous scale.  Then we jar them up and use them with our dinners.  I had some to put out at Easter one year and my brother in law thought it was the best thing at the table.  That was a real compliment and such an easy side dish since I just opened the jar and poured it into a dish and baked.  The apples will brown, but since they’re covered in apple cider and cinnamon I didn’t worry about it.  If you want your apples to look less brown, you can put them into a bowl with some lemon juice before you put them into the baking dish. 

Enjoy!