Day in the Life of Small Town

Well, up before the sun and listening to my soothing list on Spotify.  First day of Thanksgiving break is a no on sleeping in.  Well, this break is not filled with a long list of things to do.  It is time to relax, do some cleaning of course, and finish with photography.  Will post photos, if this happens.  Cooking a dessert for tomorrow it is Crustless Apple Pie recipe which follows:

Crustless Apple Pie

Ingredients

35 grams rolled oats (1/3 cup)
35 grams all purpose flour (1/4 cup)
30 grams fine raw sugar (2 tablespoons) or brown sugar
1 gram salt (1/4 teaspoon)
43 grams unsalted butter (3 tablespoons), cut into small pieces
1 teaspoon of ice water + more if needed
100 grams fresh ripe dates
1 teaspoon tapioca starch (sometimes called tapioca flour)
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
28 grams unsalted butter (2 tablespoons) melted
2 very large apples (about 420 grams each)

Directions

Put the oven rack in the middle position and preheat to 190 C (375 F).
Add the rolled oats, flour, sugar and salt to the bowl of a small food processor and pulse a few times to break up the oats.
Add the butter and pulse 1 second at a time until the mixture looks like a fine gravel.
Add the ice water and pulse until the mixture looks like a coarse gravel that’s barely coming together. Add a bit more water if needed.
Place the topping in the freezer while you work on the filling.
Remove the pits from the dates. The dates should be the consistency of a soft caramel. If you’re using dried dates, you may need to soak them in some boiling water for a few minutes to soften them up.
Mash the dates together with the tapioca starch, nutmeg, cinnamon, and melted butter.
Cut the apples in half from top to bottom and use a metal measuring spoon or melon scoop to remove the core. After the apple halves are cored, continue carving pieces of apple out and add the pieces to the date mixture. You want to leave at least 1 cm (1/3-inch) of apple around the skin so that the apple holds its shape while being baked.
Mix the date mixture and apples together until they are well combine and then divide the mixture into the apples.
Take the topping mixture out of the freezer and top each apple with it.
Place the stuffed apples on a parchment lined baking sheet and bake until the apples are soft and the topping is golden brown (about 35-45 minutes).
Yield: 4 apple halves