We have some good orchards down off the mountain to the east, I like to go buy half bushel or so of apples and keep, because I like fresh apples to eat.
The kind I like, cortland, wasn't ready yet so the lady suggested paula red or zestars. The paula reds looked similar to cortland so I went with them. The lady at the orchard told the GF, yes these would be good for pie, so we made a dutch apple pie, her favorite, last week. Today was a last minute Labor Day picnic apparently I was having, and I just made up the rest of the apples as I did for the pie and put it in a 9x13 with out a crust.
She was not fond of the no crust idea, I told her she had a fork only thing the crust is for is if you don't have a fork, the filling is what you are after.
Everyone must have liked it, there was just a small amount left. Even with out the crust.