mmmm turnovers! so my CSA has been consistently giving me apples, every week. like, 2-3 delicious looking apples that i dont know what to do with! don't get me wrong, i enjoy apples, but for whatever reason, i have difficulties getting through them. delicious for dessert but so filling! and blahblahblah i just dont eat enough fruit. so the apples were just piling up! what to do with them?!?!?
apple turnovers was my answer.
i found a tasty recipe online on epicurious...surprise surprise. it involved cooking the apples before with some sugar and water. for some reason the recipe didnt include any cinnamon or nutmeg. which i dont understand at all. why wouldnt there be cinnamon and nutmeg in an appley dessert? so i added it anyway for some nice flavor, and mashed the tender apples with my dough knife.
so these turnovers are made with puff pastry dough, which i do know how to make but will probably never really make myself again because it is a really annoying, time-consuming process involving more than a pound of butter and it is so so so much easier to just go buy dufours! which they make with real butter! unlike pepperridge farm which is disgusting. i suppose i could make quick puff pastry dough, which only takes a few hours...maybe next time. the downside, however, is that puff pastry dough has to be kept cold. but not too cold. so you keep it frozen, but then have to thaw it in the fridge, but only in the 2-3 hours before you are going to use it. but by the time i got home from work, i only had ~1 hour to defrost my dough before needing to start cooking! tried the fridge for a bit, and then outsied the fridge, and then spread out under stove lights. clearly not the way to properly defrost puff pastry dough.
so i filled my little squares of dough with chilled apple filling, folded them over, crimped the edges with a fork, coated in egg, sprinkled with sugar, and made little slits to let steam out. and there i was, making the edges all crimped and pretty. which was silly, as you can see from how they puffed up you cant see the crimping at all! (to be fair, i have done crimping things with puff pastry before, when making fruit tart log type things, and it can work, it just needs to be hugely exaggerated, which fork crimping doesnt do...also, with quick puff pastry, it doesnt puff up as much, as with the real stuff (including the store-bought) does, which i totally forgot)
anyway, they were delicious! and a nice way to use the apples! even though i have tons of filling left...
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