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- Y'all know what season it is
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by the things I've got up here on my counter.
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And so I'm gonna make some baked apples
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'cause you love baked apples, don't you Michael.
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- [Michael] Yeah, I like apple pies, too.
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- Your favorite though is my fried apple pies, isn't it.
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- Yeah, that's one of my favorites.
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- Oh gosh, it's so good.
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But today we're gonna go a little healthier route
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and certainly a little bit easier.
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Now I have sliced about a half inch
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off the top of my apples,
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and I got some fruit fresh I kind of sprinkled on it
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so they wouldn't turn brown, but they gonna get brown,
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'cause I'm gonna put 'em in the oven.
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So you just wanna make sure when you start doing your coring
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that you don't bust through to the bottom
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because then all those, your spices and your juices,
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they'll leave, they'll run out.
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And we don't want that to happen.
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So Michael has just walked in the house, y'all.
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He has been having some back problems
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and he's going to Mayo down in Jacksonville
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and they're working on trying to help him
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There's some guys out there,
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let's see their last name is Ritis?
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- And I think out all of the Ritis boys out there,
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that Arthr is the worst one of them.
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I've met Arthr, and I don't like him.
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So I think Arthr has been bestin' you too.
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- [Paula] Hadn't he, Michael?
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- It's unusual for the young guys like me to get it.
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- Yeah, since you're nine years younger than me.
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That shouldn't be happening to you.
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All right, so you can see how I cored out our apples
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and I'm just gonna sprinkle a little fruit fresh on that
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and I'm gonna put it my casserole dish,
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see how we've done it.
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They naturally, you don't have to cut any of the bottom off,
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'cause they've got a natural stool that they sit on.
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So I have got like a half a cup of sugar.
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I've got a half a teaspoon of fresh ground nutmeg.
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And I really do like using the fresh ground.
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It's just so much better.
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And I've got a teaspoon of cinnamon.
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So I'm just gonna mix that together.
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We gonna drop that in the cavity.
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After we get it all mixed up.
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Now this is enough to probably do six apples
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right here but I'm only doing four, so
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drop that right into the cavity, just like that.
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You know, these are so
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If you feel like you've got to have a dessert
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this is a good way to me,
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to have your cake and eat it too
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Cause an apple a day keeps a doctor away, right, Mikey?
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- [Michael] Maybe not those. (laughter)
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- Maybe without the sugar.
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- Well, you know what?
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You could use a sugar substitute.
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You know, there's baking substitutes out there,
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so you could certainly use that.
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But now here's one where you're not gonna substitute.
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And that's a little butter.
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I'm just gonna kinda press that in.
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It's like a teaspoon.
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Just press it in like that.
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And then to make sure
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the butter gets a little sugar on it.
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I'm just gonna sprinkle a little more.
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- [Michael] We used to make butter and sugar sandwiches
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when we were little. - Every child has.
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It was such a cheap treat.
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I did the same thing, Michael.
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Got my white bread out and smeared butter on it
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and sprinkled it with sugar, and then.
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All right, I've got a cup of apple juice,
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and I'm not going pour it over the apples,
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I'm gonna pour it in the dish around my apples.
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And now I'm gonna cover this with tin foil
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and I'm gonna bake it for about 45 minutes to an hour.
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Really depending on how you like your apples.
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If you like 'em firm,
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or real soft, I keep looking at this sugar.
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I just can't stand the thoughts of it.
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- [Michael] Wasted. - I know.
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I mean, I could save it, make French toast with it
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but I was afraid I was too-
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- [Michael] You could pour it in that apple juice.
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- That's a good idea, Michael.
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Just a little. (laughter)
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and we are ready to go.
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- [Woman] That scared me.
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- Did it, I'm sorry. (crinkling)
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When I'm covering any dish with tin foil
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that's going into the oven,
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because especially I've noticed it especially with meats,
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Michael, I don't know if you've ever noticed it.
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But you cover it up with tin foil
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and then you go to take your tin foil off.
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- [Michael] I spray mine with duck fat.
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- Yeah, that's good too.
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From my duck fat in that drawer.
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- Well, I didn't know it was just yours.
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I thought you shared with me.
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- I do share with you.
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Yeah, so I like to spray the tin foil because sometimes
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flecks of that tin foil will actually get on
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whatever you're cooking.
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And like I said, I find it especially with meats.
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Now another thing (crinkling)
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that I have to be mindful of
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is that is a commercial oven in there
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that I'm cooking with, and the fan is so strong
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that it'll blow my tin foil off, so I had to wrap it
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extra, extra long, so it can wrap around it like that.
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It's kinda hard to just one person doing this,
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I don't wanna cover it in the back.
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- Does it need to be sealed,
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because this one has this isn't sealed over here.
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- No, I think it's, I think it's all.
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- You want me to put it? - Yeah.
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- It's good to go. - Okay.
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But we will have to watch it,
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because like I said that fan is so strong,
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it'll blow that tin foil right off,
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and then you'll hear this cranking
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and beating around in there,
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But I wouldn't trade my commercial oven for anything.
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Any kitchen appliance.
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Maybe my air fryer, not my air fryer.
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So 45 minutes, we can sit down and share an apple, Michael.
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It would be delicious with a scoop of vanilla ice cream
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sitting beside of it.
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- Anything's better with ice cream.
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just turned out beautiful (scraping)
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And this is the softness that I like my baked apples.
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- [Woman] I was gonna say it should still be hot.
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So, so good, it makes a wonderful dessert
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or an afternoon snack. (glassware clinking)
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And if you're gonna serve
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if you're having guests
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and you're gonna serve them a dessert,
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a scoop of ice cream alongside this plate of apple is
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delicious and you could stick a cinnamon stick in it
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and a little piece of fresh mint,
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and you have a beautiful, beautiful dessert.
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Look at that, skin and all,
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cause the skin they say is the most important part
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that you eat, that's where a lot of your vitamins are.
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- [Woman] Look at Popeye.
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- I feel so healthy. (laughter)
