Apples, Apples, Apples

The fall is my favorite season. I love the change in weather, the changing of the leaves,breaking out the warm sweaters and eating yummy fall food. This Saturday (Chris’ 1^st Saturday off, woo-hoo) we went apple picking at Snell Family Farm. It was a gorgeous day. A bit brisk because the wind was a blowing…but a perfect fall day with bright sunshine! We picked Cortland (for pie) and McIntosh. We picked and we picked a lot. So much fun! In the market they had some other really yummy stuff that we couldn’t resist including: cucumber, fingerling potatoes and CIDER! Warm cider might be my favorite thing about fall, so I was all over that.

What could be better than watching some football and baking an apple pie? Yes, I know, watching basketball and baking an apple pie, but alas this was not an option in mid-September. So, football watching and apple pie baking it was! It was a great time, except that the Patriots were terrible. Terrible.

We bought frozen dough from the IGA because we are lazy, and used a Cooking Light recipe for the filling of our awesome apple pie. Also, we had no lemon juice, so we went without, again because we are lazy. The recipe called for eight apples, so that’s how many we peeled and sliced.Eight was too many…way too many apples. When filling the pie crust we used about half. Lucky for us, we had a bit of dough left over as well. I placed the leftover dough in a little ramekin (so much L.O.V.E. for ramekins) and filled it with some of the leftover apples. Into the oven went the ramekin treat with the pie.

The ramekin treat and the apple pie turned out perfectly! They were finished about 10 minutes early. Everything came out of the oven browned and looking tasty. Our house smelled so good.We had dinner. We ate some pie. We were tired.

Ta-da!