Funny, it's only day 4 and I'm feeling that I've been baking and blogging for months (haha)! I realized this morning that I omitted a very important part of my post last night - taste. How can a person be blogging about what they're cooking, baking, or even frying if they aren't going to add how it tastes? The Pepperoni bread was good, but it wasn't one of those times that it was "to die for" because I have made those. My son loved it, but I may have thought that because I wasn't feeling all that well yesterday and had very little appetite, too. I was disappointed that the dough was so bread-like, especially towards one side of the loaf. The Pepperoni and cheese wasn't evenly distributed. It was certainly edible, but I am my own worst critic as I'm sure you'll discover. I'm not going to pretend that I'm the world's greatest baker and I deserve to have my own show on the Food Network because I definitely am not, far from it. I enjoy being in the kitchen and feeding my family and one of my goals for this is to improve my baking.
An aside, my scale says I lost two pounds. I haven't exercised, but I'm thinking "thin", so maybe I'm wishing the weight away. Ok, more honestly, it's probably that I've lost that wonderful monthly water retention. Ok, I typed the beginning of this blog this morning at 8:44 a.m., and it is now 11:06 p.m. Life happened - breakfast had to be made, piles of laundry needed to be done, a daughter went back to college, groceries needed to be gotten, and a son requested assistance with homework and a science project which ended up regressing because of the parental input. I'm aggravated. There just wasn't enough time in the day today. I know sometimes that happens and usually I can deal with it, but maybe it's because I now have superglue on 6 of my ten fingers, that I can't upload pictures to this particular computer because I can't figure out how, that it took me 4 hours to make a pie crust (really wasn't difficult I just had so many interruptions), or that the pie is in the oven and will be done at the stroke of midnight. I didn't even make dinner! It was a fend-for-yourself-eat-leftovers night.
I made my first pie crust from scratch. We'll see how it turns out. As I said, it really wasn't difficult and if you are uninterrupted, should not take very long maybe an hour and a half including chill time. I used the recipe from one of my Julia Child cookbooks thinking that her's would be one of the best. My only concern, well, two actually was that I trimmed the edges right at the top of the pie plate and that I didn't roll it thin enough. When I pre-baked it there was shrinkage and some of the crust is below the plate edge, and I just think the thing is too darn thick. We'll see.
This Apple Cream Pie recipe hails from my mother's sister, Jeanne. She is a wonderful cook, too, just like her mother. My mother, not so much. She inherited the creative genes, not the culinary ones. She wasn't bad, just...ok. I've mostly made this pie for Thanksgiving, but it's been quite a few years. It felt weird to not make it for a special occasion. I'm glad I did though. It smells delicious!
Apple Cream Pie
One Pie Crust (HAHA, I just noticed that I didn't read the directions and that the pie crust is supposed to be UNBAKED. I'm thinking that it may be better that I did because it was especially thick.)
5 or 6 Medium Apples (I used Macintosh, just because we prefer those.)
1 tbsp. Lemon Juice1 cup firmly packed Brown Sugar
1/4 cup Flour
1/2 tsp. Cinnamon
1/8 tsp. Salt
1 cup Cream
Pare and quarter apples. Place in unbaked pie shell. Sprinkle lemon juice over apples. Combine dry ingredients. Sprinkle 3/4 dry ingredients over apples. Pour cream over apples. Sprinkle with remaining dry ingredients (sugar mixture).
(Add 1/4 tsp. cinnamon when mixing pie dough) - which I neglected to do. I've used pre-packaged pie crusts in the past and it tasted just fine without cinnamon in the crust.
So, it's coming out of the oven in 1 minute! I will take a picture which along with the other ones I've taken will be posted tomorrow. I will taste it in the morning - BREAKFAST with a nice cup of coffee, and let you know how the crust came out. It is best served chilled anyway, not like a warm apple pie. Time for bed. I also need to discuss tomorrow my shopping trip and how I saved 48% at checkout! I still need to get this glue off my fingers...
You're probably already in bed, but Happy Baking!
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