Whats a good picnic recipe using APPLES?
I don’t have a “real” recipe for it, but here’s the idea: make individual sized rustic apple tarts. Prepare a crust however you normally do so (personally, I use the Cuisinart method because you can use really cold butter, which makes for really flaky crust, but you can use a mix or those “sticks” of prepared dough) and roll it out to about 1/4″ thick. Chunk up three or four big apples and throw them in a bowl – the place I’m stealing this from uses apples cut into about sixths, which makes for some pretty big chunks, but you can make then smaller if you want. To the apples, add a couple tablespoons of flour, a couple teaspons of cinnamon and a teaspoon of nutmeg, then toss the whole mixture together. Now, cut out squares of the dough, four to six inches on a side. On each square, put a big scoop of the apple mixture and pull the corners up towards the middle. Smush the sides up, too, so the fruit mixture doesn’t leak out. The whole point is that these are supposed to be “rustic,” so d
