Brown Sugar-Walnut Fried Apples

Two things we always knew we would have an abundance of in the fall was apples and walnuts. We had apples, one way or another, at every meal, and Granny mostly used the walnuts for bakin’ and candy-makin’. I liked to put walnuts in my fried apples to give ’em a li’l crunch. Needless to say, Granny thought I was wastin’ perfectly good walnuts. It wasn’t much of a stretch to know how I wanted to put a twist on traditional fried apples—a whole lot of sweetness, a bit of spice, and, of c