Ever have those days when what seems like a brilliant plan turns out to be one big, bad, overdose of stupid pills?
I experienced this very thing a week ago.
Thanks to an extremely soggy fall, harvest had been placed on standby. Even the Mario Andretti neighbors fell victim to Mother Nature’s red flag and found themselves parked, waiting for weather conditions to improve.
As the days of waiting to start field work turned into weeks of waiting to start field work, I found myself with all sorts of unexpected time on my hands.
On one particularly deceiving Saturday afternoon, guess who decided to get 80 lbs of apples to freeze???
Let’s see… that’s only the equivalent of a middle schooler… no biggie.
Sigh.
And so began the peeling with the hand-held vegetable peeler.
There was peeling…
And peeling…
And even more peeling.
It felt like a bad, never-ending Dr. Seuss story:
One peel, two peel, red peel, blue peel.
We peeled apples standing tall.
We peeled apples sitting small.
Apple peels were in our hair.
Those apple peels were everywhere.
One peel, two peel, red peel, OH….. SWEET BABY JESUS peel.
There was so much peeling we began holding the kids hostage in the kitchen, their ransom a hefty price tag of a parent-determined number of peeled apples… each. (Which, I’d like to report, was a strategy that actually worked! There’s that.)
Yes, things were getting pretty serious around here.
And then, Amazon came to the rescue with free 2-day shipping of this handy gadget:
It attaches to your KitchenAid mixer and can do all kinds of tricks! But let’s be real… the ONLY trick I cared about was the one that involved coring, slicing, and PEELING APPLES!!!!!
Is that angels I hear singing???
Fast forward to today… I still think I need my head examined over the timing of this whole fiasco, but in the end, Apple Invasion 2018 wasn’t my worst decision ever. We were able to enjoy this beauty…
And here she is wearing the “Farmer’s Delight” to-go container…
And here’s a close up… have you ever seen anything so gorgeous?
Then again, you know what they say… beauty is in the eye of the taste bud holder.
Enjoy!
Double Crumb Apple Crisp
Original recipe by: Creationsbykara.com
Ingredients
- 2 Cups oats (I used Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Old Fashioned Rolled Oats)
- 2 Cups brown sugar
- 1 Cup flour (I used Krusteaz Gluten Free Flour blend)
- 1 T cinnamon
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 Cup butter
- 11 Cups apples, peeled, cored, & sliced (I used Regent apples & they were outstanding!)
- ¼ Cup sugar plus ½ tsp cinnamon
Instructions
In a food processor or blender, combine first 6 ingredients & pulse until butter is evenly distributed. Press about ⅓ of the mixture into a 9×13 pan. Spread apples over the crust and sprinkle with the cinnamon & sugar mixture. Evenly sprinkle the remaining crumb mixture over the apples. Place pan onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake at 350* for 50 minutes. Serve warm with a scoop of ice cream and homemade caramel topping.
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