When life gives you apples...

At YES, Service Saturday (formerly known as Saturday School) is a monthly event where students flock to campus devoted to the purpose of serving their community... or because we make them.

Unbeknownst to the students, the spoils of their rejected Service Saturday bag lunches often go to "serve" the staff. Thus the overflowing basket of small, over-ripe apples in the teacher's lounge.

Determined to make good use of them (because simply eating them would be lame), I decided to see what could be done with apples...and a microwave.

Apple Surprise!
(single serving)

1-2 small apples
1/2 cup of water
2 tablespoons of sugar
1 packet of honey (opt.)
1 packet of instant oatmeal
flavored coffee creamer (of course!)

Cut apples into wedges. (Remove skin if you do NOT have a meeting for which you are already late). Put apples, sugar, water and honey in a microwaveable bowl. Cook for 3 1/2 minutes. Carefully pour off the water, add instant oatmeal, then pour water back in. I find this makes it easier to mix, although I'm fairly sure you could have just left the water in.
Microwave for 30 seconds. Add creamer.

If you happen to have ice cream left over from an ice cream party, omit the whole oatmeal thing and just pour the cooked apples over ice cream, then drizzle with dulce-de-leche syrup...or leftover syrup packets from Jack-in-the-Box.
Yum!