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Friends and family members have been calling and e-mailing to find out how it turned out, so I figured I'd announce it publicly: I made an apple pie today and it looks darn good (see picture). The verdict won't be in until tomorrow, but I'm optimistic.I don't want to get all cocky about it, given I haven't even tasted it yet. But it wasn't so difficult to make. Even the homemade crust wasn't such a big deal.
In case you're wondering, I ended up using a variety of apples: Cortland, Winesap, and Gala.
I guess I've caught the baking bug because after I finished the pie, I baked sugar cookies with Ruby. We both had fun using her toy-sized cookie cutters to make various shape cookies: stars, hearts, little people. But eventually, Ruby lost interest and turned to Play-Doh to bake a "birthday cake." Sadly, the sugar cookies were pretty tasteless. Her Play-Doh cake probably tasted better.
"Think I should serve them tomorrow?" I asked Avo.
"Are you proud of them?"
"No."
"Then don't serve them. I wouldn't."
Good advice.
Instead of wallowing in my minor failure of the afternoon, I decided to bake brownies. Nothing too fancy. Just basic brownies. Once I whip some cream tomorrow, they'll be delicious. Of course, I'm hoping all eyes will be on the apple pie!
I'll report back.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
1 comment:
I can't wait to hear the apple pie taste report! Do tell you when you get a chance! The secret to sugar cookies is not too much flour, to roll them out as little as possible (which is hard if you're using a cookie cutter) and lot of vanilla and/or lemon zest. The New Joy of Cooking recipe is very reliable. Oohhh, also, a lot of sugar cookies aren't very good at all until you frost them!
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