Walnut Stuffed Apples

"Walnut stuffed apples or tufahije (singular: tufahija) are a quintessential Bosnian dessert recipe. When these no-frills ingredients (walnuts, poached apples, simple syrup and some whipped cream) collaborate you get a very elegant treat. To understand Bosnian, and to an extent Balkan mentality, you have to go down to its most basic format. This – surprisingly enough – is not the family unit, but mahala, or a neighborhood. Except in our case, it’s not just any neighborhood… but a distinct form of neighborhood you can see all around Sarajevo if you ascend from the city’s center up the narrow, squiggly roads. "