It was fairly unproductive. But unproductive equals relaxing so that's good. One semi-motivated thing I did was try out an apple recipe from the good ol' Joy of Cooking. "Baked Apples Filled With Sausage Meat" was the entry. Joy of Cooking isn't big on witty names I guess. Just call it what it is.
The whole coring/hollowing out of the apples was a hassle, however each apple was easier than the one before it. After that it was all easy. And pretty tasty. Certainly nice to mix it up from just eating apples cold and plain.
Here's the routine:
Get yourself some apples (large unless you want to make yourself crazy). Cut off the top and then cut out the core. Get rid of that. Then hollow it out a bit (the recipe says to leave the shell 3/4 of an inch thick but I went a bit thinner). Save those apple pieces you hacked out.
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| Knife choice was difficult for me. I got a spoon involved too. |
Get yourself some sausage. The recipe said to go with well-seasoned sausage but I went with some "country sausage" because that's what I saw first at the store. I sort of assumed that all sausage came from the country as I don't run across a lot of pig farms in urban environments but perhaps I'm wrong. Anyway, the country sausage wasn't really what I would call "well-seasoned" but I guess tasting like the the country was seasoned enough for my liking.
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| Country sausage |
Take your sausage and mix it with the apple pieces you have from the hollowing out process. Then sprinkle the inside of the apples with some brown sugar and put the sausage/apple mixture into the apples. Apples into a baking dish and baking dish into a 375 degree oven for somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 minutes.
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| Ready for the oven |
Done and done. Joy of Cooking said to serve with rice or noodles so I did just that.
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| Stand by, stomach here comes delicious. |
Applerific! Or perhaps more accurately Applesausagerific!
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