Saved! With Apples

Tonight, I went and had dinner with the lovely Tessa, and then we headed to her place to make (and eat, clearly) dessert, and watch a movie. We watched Saved!, which I'd never seen. I'd had mixed reviews of the movie, including a lot of bad ones, but I really enjoyed it. It was just the right mix of cynicism and romantic happy endings for me.

Dessert was baked apples, a favourite of mine, and the second recipe to grace Never Reason's pages. So, here we go:

J-Bird's Baked Apples (with happy accidents due to Tessa's lack of labeled spices)

Ingredients (to serve 2)
2 Apples (I prefer Granny Smith or something equally tart, but use your favourite baking apple)
1/2 lemon
liquid honey
~1/2 cup of rolled oats
~2 tsps each of cinnamon and nutmeg
~5 tsps brown sugar
~ 1/4 cup margarine or butter
Note: other than the apples, which are key, this is all pretty much to taste, and I'm pretty much just making up quantities (hence the squigglies), so...use your judgement.

Preparation
1. Preheat oven to 350 F, and grease whatever you're baking them in. Use something somewhat deep. We used a muffin tin. Ramekins would be really pretty.

2. Wash apples, and cut them into thirds (I know weird dimension, but it's important. I'm totally lying. Pick a dimension, but cut 'em). Also, core the apples. Not entirely necessary to the recipe, but it makes it easier to eat, and as Tessa so wisely spoke for us all "I don't like that stuff". Put each portion in their baking dishes.

3. Squeeze lemon juice on apple pieces, then sprinkle oats cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar on apples (this is where the happy accident came. I accidentally used nutmeg instead of cinnamon. It's awesome, and has been permanently invited to the Baked Apple party).

4. Drizzle liquid honey sparingly over apples. The honey should not runneth over.

5. Pop in oven. In about 20 minutes, take out of oven, and put about a teaspoon of margarine/butter on each portion. Put back in oven, bake for another 15-20 minutes. Basically, serve them when they get really mushy, like applesauce. And serve them right out of the oven, hot like fire.

If they start drying out too much, add more butter, or lemon juice or something. Also, raisins make a wonderful addition (we didn't have any), and if they could be eaten with creme fraiche, they would be.

Enjoy!