I just went apple picking!

And now I have like a kajillion apples.   What can I do with them without making them into a pie?  Please note I'm a novice in the kitchen and would also like to use as little ingredients as possible.  Ideally, I'd like to do something that incorporates old fashioned oatmeal, too.  Can I just core and slice the apples, throw it in with some oats, and maybe some cinnamon and nutmeg?  I'd like to avoid using sugar, too, but I could go rob my local dunkin donuts of some splenda packets (god that stuff is EXPENSIVE!).

Thanks. :)

You can slice them up, add honey and cinnamon, and bake for a juicy dessert than you can top with some lowfat yogurt or just eat plain. :) Or you could make some apple sauce and eat for breakfast and snacks.

Just google an applesauce recipe.


There's a great one on familyfun.com;

http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/disp lay?id=13650


Super simple, barely any ingredients, fabulous result!

-Stick them in salads sliced up

-stick them in oatmeal sliced up

-appe sauce

-core them and stick them in a microwave then add whatever toppings

-Apple and oatmeal cookies/pancakes

I love using splenda and cinnamon! i sprinkle it over my sliced apples and microwave for around 1:25

Thanks, everyone!  I googled apple sauce recipes and decided this is the one I'm going to try out:

Quick Home-made No Sugar Added Apple Sauce

I will let you all know how it comes out. :)

I don't use a recipe for my applesauce, because it's straight apples.  I peel and core them and throw the chunks into a pot with a heavy bottom.  I add a couple of tablespoons of water to get the steam started, turn the heat down low, cover and let it "sweat" until the apples are very soft.  Then I go after them with an old fashioned potato masher.  I use yellow delicious apples from a local orchard - freshness is really important, so the apples you picked would work great.

When it cools, I spoon it into ziplock bags and flatten them on a cookie sheet.  I freeze them flat, then put the little bags into a big zipper freezer bag, labeled with the date I put it up.

You can make applesauce with unpeeled, uncored apples, but then you have to put it all through a food mill to get the skins and seeds out.  It's really messy.

Fold them into whole wheat or bran muffins.  Use them in your morning oatmeal.  Stir-fry them with a teaspoon of butter & cinnamon; use to top with pancakes, etc.  You can also chop up fine & use in place of raisins in a healthy oatmeal cookie recipe. 

Apple sauce, muffins, bake them, crumble, if you want to make pie but are worried about calories bake it in a casserole dish and only use a pastry top not all pastry.

Silly question, but any ideas on what I can do with the skins after I peel them to make apple sauce?  I like apple skins and I know they've gotta have nutritional value -- it seems like kind of a waste to just throw out the skins of like 9 apples.  Hmm...

I just made a great chicken salad with apples and pecans in it. If you don't mind pairing meat with fruit, i think this is a great way to use apples.

And with the skins, I don't really know what to tell you. I haven't made apple sauce yet this year, but I had the same feeling when I made it last year and I just kept them around for like a day or two and ate as many of them as I could.

I don't eat meat, but thanks for the suggestion!

I wanted something quick for dessert so I decided to skip applesauce making tonight, and instead I just cored two medium-sized apples and sliced them up in cubes, heated up a frying pan and sprayed it with cooking spray (all I had was canola oil spray), and then "sauteed" the apples for a couple of minutes with a couple splashed of lemon juice, then when they were almost done I threw in a tsp of cinnamon (tomorrow I'll use more and maybe a pinch of salt, too) and a packet of splenda.  It was SO GOOD and only 150 calories. :)

Don't throw the skins away! My applesauce recipe (that I make every year) is this:

-Core and slice enough apples to fill a large pot 2/3 of the way.

-Add a cup or two of water. Cook until apples are mushy.

- Grind in Folley Food Mill: http://www.thekitchenstore.com/072075500242.h tml (you don't even need to get all the seeds cut out as the food mill will do some of that for you).

-Cool enough to ladel into containers. Freeze.

If you do it this way, the skins add extra flavor and you don't need to spice at all (although I sometimes do when I eat it--but not before).