We still buy lots of organic fruit in 20 pound boxes from Azure Standard, even while getting a big box of produce from Full Circle weekly. What can I say, we like our fruit, a lot. Occasionally we get to the bottom of 20 pounds of apples and some of the apples are looking pretty sad. Nothing rotten or furry just wrinkled and soft, not pretty but definitely edible.
We came across a few of those a couple days ago and my kids were grossed out. They wanted to take them right out to the chickens and be done with it. I wanted them to understand that even when things look gross on the outside it's what's inside that matters. I handed my 8 year old the apple corer and showed him how to use it and put him to work cleaning out the apples. When he cut into the first apple he discovered it was perfectly fine, the flesh though soft was not rotten as he thought it would be.
I hope the lesson sunk in, I didn't push it or over talk it or make it a learning lesson, I just let it ride. The baked apples made the house smell fantastic, they tasted great and I had to fight the urge to over teach the lesson. Biting. My. Tongue. Not easy for me.
Why not over teach the moment?
Not everything needs to be overdone, some things can just be simple and still effective. The world today is all about ramming information into kids so they can pass the next test or meet some other highly ineffective goal. Sometimes you can just be.
Quick and Easy Baked Apples
oven 350˚
2 apples, whatever kind you happen to have
2 TBSP butter
2 TBSP chopped pecans-or whatever nuts you have on hand
2 TBSP brown sugar or whatever sweetener you have or like
dash of salt
preheat the oven to 350˚
core the apples
mix the rest of the ingredients together
stuff the apples with butter mix and lay then on their sides in a baking dish
bake 30-45 minutes until the apples are fork tender
My six year old said "oh! they're full of applesauce"
Peace and Love--
2 comments, thoughts, ideas, random words or haikus:
That's a wonderful idea. I actually have some local apples in the crisper getting a little soft - this would be perfect!
I love baked apples. I think I'll have to remember this when my dearly beloved starts wailing that he's hungry around 2AM, while we're watching a movie!
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