Apple Walnut Baklava

Submitted by niclark:

Apple Walnut Baklava (adapted from http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Baklava/Detail.aspx) 

Ingredients:

• 1 roll of phyllo dough (usually comes in a box with two rolls; you only need one)
• 2 cups chopped walnuts
• 2 large Granny smith apples (or 4-5 small ones)
• 1 cup butter (if you need the dish to be vegan, use Smart Balance)
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 cup apple cider
• 2 tablespoons white sugar
• ~1/2 cup brown sugar 

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 F.  Butter the bottom and sides of a 9X13 inch glass or metal baking dish.
   
2. Chop apples into very small pieces and toss with cinnamon and walnuts.  Set aside.
3. Melt the butter and unroll the phyllo dough.
4. Place a sheet of phyllo in the bottom of the dish and brush butter onto it.  
5. Repeat until you’ve used half of the roll of dough.  
6. Spread the apple/walnut/cinnamon mixture over the dough and pour a little bit of butter over it. 
7. Finish with the rest of the phyllo dough in the same way you did the first half.
8. Use a sharp knife to cut diamonds or squares all the way to the bottom of the pan.  Bake for 50-60 minutes (in a SoCo oven it took 60 minutes, turning once halfway through to compensate for uneven heating)
9. While the baklava is baking, put the apple cider, white sugar, and brown sugar in a pot over medium-high heat and cook until it reaches a syrupy consistency, stirring frequently and watching to be sure it doesn’t boil over.
10. Remove the baklava from the oven and immediately pour the sauce over it.  Let it cool, then enjoy.

Easy: Apple and Cream Cheese MAGIC

Did your parents load you up with even more apples after Thanksgiving break, and you mysteriously have some cream cheese left that's not gone bad yet? 

This is by far the easiest thing to do with the apples... I whipped it up quickly before my friend's pre-Thanksgiving dinner and it was a hit. 

Bavarian Apple Torte. 

Apple and Bean Stew?

This is easy, and delicious. Especially if you like apples in your curry, and if you like curry and beans. (Did you know that the curry powder you have in your spice rack is actually a mixture of different spices? Yep. Check the ingredient list out. So if you feel adventurous, mix some spices together and make your own personal curry! Once upon a time, when ACDC had a huge assortment of spices by the stir-fry, I was able to do just that. )

Let's get to it.

Ingredients:

• Curry powder, spices, garlic powder, cayenne pepper... etc.
• Oil
• An onion, chopped
  
• Minced garlic (optional)
• 1 or 2 can of beans
• Vegetable or chicken broth (optional)
• Lemon juice (optional)
  
• 2 apples
• Carrots, peas, squash, anything you think would taste good
  
• Ham (optional)
  
• Coconut milk (a dash, also optional)

Directions:

1. Fry the chopped onion and optional garlic in some oil in a saucepan. Blend in the spices, and fry the onion until it's soft, or transparent.
   
2. Mix in the beans (if you want you don't have to drain them - use the beanliquid instead of broth), apples, other vegetables, and lemon juice if you feel so inclined.
   
3. Stir, and cook without cover until the consistency you'd like to have. Add more spices if you deem it fit. Put in some coconut milk or cream if you want a creamier curry/stew.
   
4. Cook until apples are soft.
5. Serve with rice.
   

Submitted by vefehrm

Apples to Apples

There's an abundance of apples at my house, and thus I go to great lengths into trying to incorporate apples into every meal. So far... I've been (or meaning to start) indulging in the following:

• apples with yogurt, cereal, cinnamon, flax seeds, walnuts, peanut butter, coconut, oatmeal for breakfast (anything you can find)
• baking apples, put some sugar and cinnamon on it, stick it in the oven
  
• apple crisp/crumble:
• mix oatmeal, butter, sugar (brown and white), flour, cinnamon
• slice or cut apples, and pour mixture on top
  
• stick in a greased pan
• eat with whipped cream, vanilla ice cream, or something yummy like that
• I used to have a craving for the ACDC spinach, sunflower seed, lemon dressing salad with apples and cranberries. So mix all of this together, and there you go. Add cheese for some more substance and protein.
  
• instead of pb and jelly, try pb and apple
• melt butter in a saucepan, add sugar if you like things sweet, put cut up apples into the saucepan (season with cinnamon or curry)
• vegetable curry (mix apples into your curry)
• I'm sure that going without Gossip Girl for a week is almost impossible for you as well, so maybe some Blair Waldorf salad will help alleviate the wait? (Yes I've been dying to say this for a long time)
• apple scones
• apple pie
• apple butter
• apple jelly
• apples with cheese is also great - eat on crackers (I know grapes and pears are more standard choice, but hey, whatever)
  

Apple Honey Breadcake!

Sonia Robert's Rosh Hashanah-themed recipe: Apple Honey Breadcake!

"I have deemed it a breadcake because it has the sugar levels of a bread but I put a crumbly top on it. Also, my measurements are not exact because, well, that's not how I cook."

Ingredients:

• 2 2/3c. flour~1/3c. flax seed meal (for nutty flavor)
• 1c. honey
• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• Lots of cinnamon. Seriously, open that baby up and pour.
• 1 tsp ground cloves (or thereabouts, depending on how much you like cloves).
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg (optional)
• 1/2 tsp ginger (optional)
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 4 eggs
• ~1/3c. vegetable oil (big splash)
• 5 small chopped apples (I used green ones)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven at 325.
   
2. Mix this all up and pour it into a greased casserole dish, or two loaf pans, or what have you. As long as it fits.
3. Put it in the oven for 10 minutes. During this time, mix up a crumbly top from butter, flour, cinnamon and sugar, with a dash of cloves: about a tablespoon each of flour and butter should work, with maybe two tablespoons of sugar. Mix it around til it's crumbly.
4. After it's been in for 10 minutes, take it out and put the crumbly top on. Then stick it back in and bake it for 40-50 minutes at 325 degrees. HOORAY! You are done!
   

Submitted by soroberts