Challenge #1: Apples!

[miss_s_b]

This week's challenge is to make something using apples. It could be pork with apple sauce or baked apples or apple chutney or anything you like.

I decided to go trad and make apple pie:

I haven't used exact measurements because I didn't use exact measurements when making this. Basically, "some apples" means enough apples to fill your pie dish once they've been peeled and cored and sliced, and you're going to know how much that is for your pie dish, and "some sugar" recognises that some people like these things very tart and some like them very sweet. I used about a teaspoon of cinnamon because I like how cinnamon and apples interact, but YMMV. Anyway...

Equipment:

Oven
pie dish
Apple peeler/corer/slicer - best gadget EVER!
knife
wooden spoon
rolling pin
large flat surface
saucepan
Pastry brush

Ingredients:

a 500g pack of JusRoll shortcrust pastry (because I am a cheat)
Some plain flour for dusting your surface
Some apples
Some brown sugar
Some cinnamon
A bit of milk

Method:

Put the oven on to preheat according to the instructions on the pastry - mine is a fan oven, so it was 180^o centigrade.
Process the apples through the corer/peeler/slicer and roughly chop them into the pan.
Pour on the sugar and the cinnamon to taste.
Put on a low heat for ten to fifteen minutes, stirring every so often with your wooden spoon until the apples start to soften and the sugar and cinnamon can be mixed in and aren't bitty.
While the apples are warming, flour the rolling pin and surface, then roll out the pastry so it is nice and thin.
Line the bottom of the pie dish with half the pastry, making sure you have a bit hanging over.
When the apples are ready, dump them into the middle of the pie dish then spread them out with your wooden spoon.
Put the rest of the pastry over the top and squidge the edges together with your fingers.
Use the knife to prick a couple of steam holes in the top.
Brush the milk over the top and scatter over a bit more brown sugar.
Chuck in the oven.
Take it out when the top is nice and brown.
Eat.

I haven't sorted out how I'm going to do photo hosting on here yet, but I put a picture up on G+: https://plus.google.com/107327840945769637479/posts/WCibKprTMj6

And now it's your turn :)

Comments

[ngakmafaery]

...that seems good...I am much more likely to 'cut up apples, cook in water until soft' and call it applesauce...! ahahahaha!

[miss_s_b]

LOL that's fair enough. I still have some apples left, and may well do that tomorrow ;)

[missdiane]

Apple pie - niiiiice.

I accept the challenge - though I can't guarantee anything too complicated this week since I got ambushed at the end of the day and the next week (including the weekend) is bound to be hell.

[miss_s_b]

Yay! I await your recipe with interest :)

[gominokouhai]

I use Photobucket for images. It's free and you can link to them from anywhere.

[miss_s_b]

I used photobucket for a while several yars ago. Can't remember why I didn't like it, and it's probably changed now...

[karohemd]

Photobucket are copyright grabbing bastards.
I thought you had a flickr account? Still the best hosting service for pics you want to post to blogs.

[gominokouhai]

I have a flickr account, but I don't recommend flickr for general webhosting because it's crippleware. The free account is only useful for deeplinking if you capture the url while you have chance. Additionally in my case, I push my Flickr RSS onto my Twitter and elsewhere, and I don't necessarliy want to do that with blog images until I've written the blog post.

Was unaware that Photobucket were copyright grabbing bastards, although it doesn't surprise me. (If you're not paying for the product, you are the product, after all.) I only ever use it for throwaway images that are easily stealable anyway, but I'd appreciate a link to more info if you have one handy.

[karohemd]

Ah, I didn't know there is a difference between free and pro accounts in terms of linking from flickr.

This might have changed but they used to have a "we can do anything we want with anything hosted on our site" type policy, similar to facebook. Since I'm happy with flickr I haven't looked at photobucket for a few years.

[el_staplador]

I made Polish pancakes with apple filling. I'll post the recipe some time...

[karohemd]

Can I use my apple&cinnamon ice cream for this? I posted this before the challenge was announced.

[miss_s_b]

Of course you can; just make a post to the comm.

[karohemd]

Right, will do tonight.