Apples Galore

I bought a 5lb bag of apples last week and no matter how many apples I eat, there still seems to be so many of them left!  Hence why today I had to be "creative" with my cooking/baking.

Ingredients in my fridge that need to be used up: apples, onion, beef broth

Apple-Onion Soup

3 medium sized onions - sliced
2 apples - sliced
about 1-2 cups of beef broth
1 can of chicken broth
1/2 tsp of dried thyme
1/2 tsp of dried parsley
1/2 cup of apple juice
1 cup water
1/4 cup of wine
1/4 cup of butter
ground white pepper to taste

As with all my other recipes, I don't measure so everything is all approximate.  I know, I would never make a good cookbook or instructor of cooking since I never really know how much I put into my recipes.

I melted the butter and sauted the sliced onions until they were a bit browned.  I then took out some onions (about a third), placed them aside.  I left the remaining onions in the pot and poured in the beef broth and chicken broth.  I added the apple slices, thyme and parsley and let the soup simmer for about an hour on low.  When the apples looked soft, I pureed the soup in a blender to get rid of the chunks.  Afterwards, the soup was put back into the pot and the onions that were set aside were then placed into the soup along with the wine.

Before the puree

Just before serving

For dessert, I had to use up this really really raw, sour mango and again, a bunch of apples.  I decided to make a simple apple crisp with a slight addition of mangoes.

Apple Mango Crisp

mango and apple

1 mango - cubed
1 apple - peeled and cubed
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1-2 tsp of lemon juice
1 tbsp of honey

Before baking

1 tbsp of brown sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 cup of granola (I had some raspberry almond granola at home)
1/4 cup of flour
1/8 cup of melted butter

After baking

Preheat the oven to 375 F.
I mixed the mango and apple together in a bowl, added lemon juice, cinnamon and nutmeg.  Then I mixed in the honey.  I distributed the fruit into 3 small bowls.  With the crumble mixture, I mixed the brown sugar, cinnamon, granola and flour together.  Then I added the melted butter and mixed everything thoroughly.  The crumble was then placed over the fruit mixture and was placed in the oven to be baked for about 30 min.