Smoked Apples

Want to try something other than pumpkin pie for dessert on Thanksgiving day? Try smoking some apples.

You can find lots of complicated smoked apple recipes on the web. I think simpler is better. Here's mine:

Chop the top off of a few apples, and core them. Make sure you keep them whole, you just want a deep hole in the center where the core was. Try to chop the tops off carefully so you can re-use them.

Melt some butter with some cinnamon, and pour the mixture into the apples. Then put the apple tops back on.

Here's the most complicated part of the recipe: take strips of foil and form them into rings, a little less than 2 inches in diameter.

Put the apples on the grill, and use the foil rings to keep them up right. Cook the apples at a low heat with some smoke, for about an hour. This works really well if you’ve smoked a turkey for your thanksgiving dinner and still have some hot coals left – the apples can smoke while you’re having dinner, and they should be ready in time for desert.

Serve them with a nice white dessert wine – anything sweeter than the apples themselves should work fine.

I'd rather have smoked apples than pumpkin pie with my thanksgiving dinner!