it's sunday, fall is in the air, and i'm in the mood for comfort food!
i've got something very exciting... my first apple pie (that i made). actually it was more like apple crisp pie... you know i can't leave any recipe alone. and before you assume i did, just know that there's no almond extract in it. yes, i know, it's almost impossible for me to make something that i don't put almond extract in, but not this time. however, there's always next time...
the from-scratch pie crust. kyle insisted it was store bought, even saying it looked too good to be from scratch. was that a compliment? it could have been, minus the dripping sarcasm. so, i smiled sweetly, and then told him to get out of the kitchen.
the filling... apples, sugar, butter...
and, the finished product. y-u-m-m-y! really yummy!so, dessert was done. on to dinner.
tonight's menu:
chicken fried chicken with gra-vy
garlic mashed potatoes
brown sugar glazed carrots
dinner was great, even though gracie emphatically claimed that she was allergic to carrots and i burned the *#^% out of my thumb. hot grease. not fun. i wouldn't recommend trying it. it hurts very badly. yes mama, i slathered it in arnica... its not helping. gracie prayed for God to heal my thumb when it was time for prayers. so sweet. well, it's been nice, but now my thumb is off to an ice cube bath. later.
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Sure am looking forward to some of the apple pie!
ya know, she invited us out to the house on saturday evening, after a long day sitting at a craft fair, at which i spent lots of $$$ to be there, but didn't make any $$$ at all. not one thin dime. so back to saturday dinner. she said we could come out for dinner if we wanted, and we talked about it, but i was soooo very tired from not making any money, that i drowned my sorrows in a RR bacon cheeseburger and steak fries (did i mentioned that we spent $30 on cheeseburgers & fries, even tho i made NO money at the craft fair???). But did she offer to make chicken fried chicken, garlic mashed potatoes, b.s. glazed carrots (that's for Gracie!) and homemade apple pie for us? Nooooooo. Probably hadn't occurred to her that after you set up for a craft fair by yourself, sit there by yourself from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., MAKE NO MONEY, then tear down by yourself and haul it home by yourself (altho dad did help me carry it in), that a nice, sit down homemade dinner would have been lovely! BTW, did i mention that i spent $70 for the booth, plus another $100 for the table set up and didn't make even one lousy dime????? participating in craft fairs have now gone the way of having garage sales for me...my own interpretation of h-e-double hockey sticks!! oh yeah. this is a family page. sorry! Min
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