miss american...pie?

so...i was cleaning out my fridge a little while ago. (which -(i know, i know!)- is a fairly lame sunday-evening activity.) but, you have to do it at some point...you know: inventory fridge contents. assess what is lacking. etc...

and during fridge cleaning/inventory/assessment, i discovered that i have a ridiculous quantity of apples...(*but, unfortunately- they were the sort of apples that had passed up the preferable "crispy" stage...and had gone on to the "mealy" stage....but, not quite mealy enough to justify throwing them away.)

so what do you do with a fridgefull of mealy-apples?
(bake them!)
*baked apples make a great snack: very healthy. and pretty tasty ...?

and i've discovered apple-peeling/slicing/dicing is a very mindless and theraputic activity....(because before i knew it--i was standing above a PILE of apples.) I don't know how it got so big...or how many apples went in there, but i knew that this was way too much for just plain old plain baked-apples....

and that is how the late-night-apple-pie-baking-adventure began.

aaaand...being so late...and me feeling so spontaneously-bakingly-adventurous...i decided to bake the pie sans-recipe. (which, actually turned out really good!)
*for some reason, i always have this feeling of very-smug-satisfaction when i can cook something without a recipe (and it actually works)

the only unfortunate parts of this pie-baking-adventure would be my definite lack of a pie-pan. woops(?)

so- i substituted a bread-pan. (which works...but, is a lot trickier....a LOT trickier....)

oh, and since my camera happened to be in the kitchen, and i was feeling rather proud of my spontaneous-inspirational-baking, you get to see my proud little pie-photos:

step 1:
apples (slightly pre-baked in microwave. with cinnamon, nutmeg, molassas, tapioca, cornstarch, and a dash of splenda)

step 2:
(cheater-(pre-made)-pie-crust) cut for bread-pan dimensions....with a little lovin' in the middle.

step 3:
apples meet crust. (and yes- this was a bottomless-pie....so, i guess kindof a cobbler-pie? ish?

step 4:
bake and take out when golden brown!

step 5:
(what you do with the awkward-ends of a circular pie-crust when baking in a rectangular-dish. (make apple-filled-....things.)

*and though they may look like little apple-poops...don't be fooled they were TASTY. (and are at this moment currently being consumed: hot. and full of late-night-apple-glory.)