Eggs and apples, apples and eggs

When you are gone most of the day having gone to the city to visit friends and there just isn't time when you get home to make the dinner you had planned, what do you do? Well, sometimes I would resort to take-out, but I've been buying school supplies, so that really wasn't an option. But we do have outrageous amounts of apples and eggs. (We have four apple trees and they have produced an amazing amount of good apples this year. We always have an outrageous amount of eggs. Until we don't.) So, it was a baked apple pancake sort of dinner tonight. Oh, and a tiny bit of bacon because we took out the last package of bacon from the freezer which was a small amount of jowl bacon from the last side of pork we bought. It was a very frugal meal. 

I need to do something with this overabundance of food, though, because it would kind of kill me to waste it. We need to get to making applesauce, and probably the best thing to do with the eggs is to make a bunch of them into little mini-quiches and stick them in the freezer. (Y. would very much like me to do this because she loves them.) 

Do you want the baked apple recipe? I have changed it enough that I feel okay sharing our version with you.

Baked Apple Pancake

makes 1 - 9 x 13 pan

-4 TBSP butter

-3 or 4 tart apples (or whatever apples you have) - we core and slice them, then cut up the slices into smaller pieces

-1/2 to 3/4 cup sugar (I'm not sure we actually measure)

-1 1/2 tsp cinnamon (this is what the recipe says, I'm pretty sure we use more because once again, we don't really measure)

-6 eggs

-1 cup milk

-2/3 cup flour

-1 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Melt the butter in a medium skillet over medium-high heat, add apples. Stir to coat apples and let the apples soften a little (keep stirring!) Add in sugar and cinnamon. Continue to stir over med-high heat until the mixture is hot and bubbly. Remove from heat.

While the apples cool a little bit, mix the eggs, milk, flour, and salt together in a bowl. Use an immersion blender to blend it together. (You could do this in a blender if you have one and it actually works. But I'd use the immersion blender because it's easier.) Place the apples in a greased 9 x 13 pan, then pour the batter over the apples. Bake for about 15 minutes until puffed and golden. Serve with syrup.