Floating out in Nantucket Sound right now counting the days to the end of the season when the boats get hauled out. Once they are out, then I will focus on Fall. For now it is still boating time. 😌
@teachmetiger210503 I slice up and core about 10 to 12 apples, unpeeled, (because I like the texture), and cook them in an aluminum foil covered "blanket", covered heavily with cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice, all on top of a cookie sheet. I don't skimp on the spice. I bake them at 350F for 45 minutes, and then I spray a 14 x10 baking pan and put the apples on the bottom of the pan. Then I cover the apples with about 2 cups of chopped walnuts. I put the 13x10 baking pan on top of another cookie baking sheet with a raised edge, and pour about a cup or two of water onto the cookie sheet so the baking pan is sitting in a water bath. I leave the oven on, at 350F.
Then I make the custard in my blender. I usually have to do it in two to three blenders full...12-18 eggs, depending on my mood, a can of pumpkin, a cup or more of Splenda, 2 tsps of vanilla, and about 2/3 of a quart of milk or a little more. I mix it all up in a huge bowl, because no one's blender is big enough.
I've learned from experience to place the baking pan with the apples and walnuts ON the oven rack, and THEN I pour the custard mix over the apples and walnuts. Then, holding my breath, I carefully slide the rack into the oven...because that pan is VERY full...🤣🤣🤣 And I bake it for an hour.
Cool, crisp autumn days are my favorite! Dried, fallen leaves, crunching under my feet as i walk the gravel path....watch leaves flutter and dance their way to the ground in the light breeze...
