Apples Foster

I was watching Unwrapped on Food Network because Claire isn't here to entertain/stop me. They spoke to the guy whose father invented/caused the invention of Bananas Foster (the guy inherited the restaurant from his father). Anyway, that's what kind of inspired this.

Ingredients

• 1 smallish apple, cubed (or something like that - I think I did something somewhere between cubes and wedges)
  
• 1tbsp brown sugar
  
• 1/2tbsp butter
  
• 1tbsp (good) dark rum (I used Meyers)
  
• vanilla ice cream
  

In a sauce pan, melt the butter with the brown sugar. Add the apples, and stir around, continuing to cook at medium high heat. If it starts to get a little dry, add a few tbsp of water. Cook until the apples are a little soft but not mushy. Take the pot off the heat and pour in the tbsp of rum. Put it back on the heat and shuffle the pan around a little so the alcohol starts to vaporize. Now ignite a lighter over the pot. Lean away from the pot a little while you do this (although alcohol doesn't burn terribly hot, and it's only for a second, so you'll probably be fine - but better safe than sorry). Pour the apples and syrup over some vanilla ice cream. Enjoy.

Thoughts: The flambe part was pretty darn cool. I think that's the second time I've ever attempted a flambe. But now it will happen like every weekend. This recipe was so good, it would be difficult to improve upon it. If I HAD to pick things to do differently next time, they would be these: 1) add a pinch of salt, 2) think about adding some spices - cinnamon, allspice, clove, that kind of thing, 3) add other fruit in addition to apple, 4) maybe some nuts for a little added texture? 5) make more. BUT the recipe doesn't suffer without these modifications - they're more suggestions of ways to potentially spice it up some time in the future. As a note: this recipe makes enough for ONE person. Multiply as needed.

Disaster Index: 1/10