Hey look, I made an actual pie

Guess the one thing I make less often than bread!

Today after doing this off and on for about a year, I got my first PIE recipe.  Yeah Me.  That nasty soggy burnt lettuce tart thing does not count.

The next fun part?  Brandy said she needs a beer, and we are going out.  After I started making my apples naked

So tonight's experiement?  How to get a Caramel Apple Pie out of the oven in 150 minutes.

Step 1.  Dirty more dishes.  Break out the potato peeler, the paring knife just ain't doing it fast enough.

Step 2.  Listen to the voices in your head.

I do not remember cooking pies with any of my grandmothers.  So why do I hear Grandma A's voice telling me in Grandma Esther's kitchen, that you need 10 apples, unless they are Grandma Vi's green apples, then you only need 3 and a half.

So this is what 10 naked and sliced apples look like.  I do not have grandma Vi's monster greenies


Now cooked

At this point, I invented a new game... after we finish, we can find the lemon pip that is somewhere in the filling.

Step 3.  Multitask and get as many other steps as possible as things cool.  Put the pie together and I cannot find a pastry brush.  (Knew we had one.  Never used it.  Think we decided to throw it instead of trying to clean the dust of unuse).  So I tried to egg wash with a silicon spatula.  As I said earlier, ugly does not affect taste.


Step #4.  Cool and go eat wings and drink beer.

But first - Some settling has happened before we leave the house.  Again... ugly tastes the same, but I do wish it didn't look as if were trying to tell me something


Return to our own dessert.  Save me $30 something.  Have my favorite vanilla bean ice cream, can even eat lettuce tart (no I cannot) with the right ice cream.



Hey the first piece never comes out beautiful.

I can eat this.  It is actually quite good.  And I didn't get the lemon pip.  We might actually have a desseert that gets eaten in its entirety BEFORE it mutates and starts genetic experiments in the fridge.

Brandy likes it.  Was singing it's praise in her own very special way.

A..  has yet to try.  It is a fruit pie... I might have to force it on her.

This is a keeper, but last rule.  Do NOT use disposable tins for a heavy apple pie.


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  1. MeOctober 15, 2019 at 3:07 PM

    Have you watched the movie Julia and Julia, I liked it. Made me thing of you. A recipe for a day for 365 days?

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