Cooking Floyd: Extreme Deep Dish Apple Pie

I'm skipping back a holiday on this post to talk about the Extreme Deep Dish Apple Pie we had for Thanksgiving (and the Pre-Thanksgiving Practice Potluck, and the initial I-wonder-if -I-can-do-this experiment).

Michael loves deeply spicy, tender, baked until translucent apples. So much so that he asked me to come up with a canning recipe for them so he could put pint jars in his lunch bag.  The result was something he lovingly calls "Apple Crack".

When it comes to pastry I'm pretty much a rookie.  But I can make a normal, presentable, and tasty apple pie.  But here is where it all went weird...