My voodoo doll is nearly done, and I hope to send it out by the end of this week. (The goal is to get it to my partner by Halloween.)
Last weekend Tim and I went apple picking, and tonight I baked a delicious apple pie with some of the apples.
I picked mostly Cortland, because that is what my mother always picked when we went apple picking, and what she used for pies, etc.
This weekend I was visiting Tim and I cooked an apple crisp. My pie tonight is basically the same thing, but with a crust.
I love that I made the whole thing from scratch and without even looking at a recipe. That is my favorite kind of cooking.
The filling is a mixture of sliced apples (with the peels left on), sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
I chose to make only a 'bottom' crust, and instead of leaving it pie shaped I tucked it up around the top, creating kind of a lumpy bulbous shape. It didn't cover the apples entirely, so I also made a crumb topping to fill in the hole on top. (brown sugar, butter, flour, cinnamon, and oats)
Unfortunately, none of my camera batteries are charged, so I only have this blurry cellphone pic to share with you:
I will try to remember to get some better photos of the partially-eaten pie tomorrow when I get home from work and my batteries are all charged and everything.
I also am planning to try to write more often, too. I definitely will make a post (with photos!) when the voodoo doll is finished. And I still need to take and post some photos of Tim's scarf (which is also close to done.)
