I can’t channel spirits, but I can channel recipes. Yesterday I was making an apple pie for our friends Jenny and Jared who were coming for dinner and I couldn’t quite figure out what to make for an entree. I knew I wanted it to be autumnal. I knew I wanted to use the apples that we picked this past weekend in Tivoli (the same apples that went into the pie). I knew pork needed to be involved (because pork + apples = good; haven’t you ever seen a pig with an apple in its mouth?). I wanted to serve it over polenta.