How about them apples!

April 11th, 2009

Today it rained. I mean it poured. The skies opened up and rain came down like a million garden hoses had been turned on. If the weather had held back up to now it was suddenly in full release and water filled up every gutter and ditch, depression and field. Thunder rolled across the region and lightning flashed repeatedly throughout the day. It seemed one system would just finish up and the next would roll in to take its place.

I was happily ensconced in my farmhouse, working away at the plumbing for the new bathroom, a task at which I easily whiled away the better part of the day. Except for one adventure to Leroy Merlin for materials since they were to be closed for the Easter Weekend.

I went for dinner at Corinne and Christians with our friend Benjamin also in attendance. We had hamburgers done French style. I must say I have had my share of hamburgers and make my own vey well. These were delicious, well made and quite delightful. But the dessert was what was even more amazing, something so simple and tasty I could hardly believe that I hadn’t seen it before….basically it was battered and fried apple slices dusted with crystalline brown sugar.

Here’s the recipe for two apples;

1 cup of flour
1 ½ cup of milk
4 egg yolks
2 apples peeled, cored and sliced about 1/8 inch thick
crystalline brown suger (cassonade in France)

Mix the flour, egg yolks and milk and layer over the slices of apple.

Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil so that its hot (like for pancakes) and lay in the slices of apple, enough to cover the cooking surface but keeping the pieces separate. Cook for two minutes on each side. Remove and sprinkle with the brown suger.

Serve hot. They taste like little mini apple fritters which I guess is what they are.