Apple Pi! AKA 3.14159265 of deliciousness

I am a sucker for fruity pie, but unfortunately pie crusts are a giant pain in the patootey. A homemade flaky pie crust is delightful, but is a giant pain to make if you are lazy like I am. I’ve never used a pie crust mix before, so I picked up a Jiffy pie crust [...]

Delicious Baked Apples

Baked apples are so freaking good. This is not a particularly new revelation. Rather, it is a revelation that is good to re-experience when one has a surplus of apples and a desire to turn some of them into sugar. How convenient and exciting for me, that I had apples of multiple varieties! I decided [...]

Chocolatey Apple Muffins (for that extra layer of warmth around your midsection)

If you are anything like me, you probably have enough sugary products in your home to last you through the next month. Or rather, if you are anything like me, you will have enough sugary products in your bloodstream to last you through the next month. If you’ve got relatives you see over the holidays, [...]

Apple Pie-tastic

I have been inundated with apples lately. This is not a problem, as I can always find useful things to do with apples. They can make excellent ammunition as well as juggling materials. I decided to try out that whole ‘eating’ thing this time around, though, to see where it’d take me. So I made [...]

Spice Cookies (of Joy)

So I made these cookies. These super awesome cookies that at first seemed like they were totally gonna be duds. See, I mixed all of the non-’chunk’ ingredients in, and the batter was still pretty much powder. But then I dumped in all the ‘chunk’ ingredients (apples, walnuts, raisins, chocolate chips) and squished it all [...]

Curry Chicken (err, Turkey) Salad (aka Apple Saga Part 3)

As it turns out, curry chicken salad is not an efficient way of using up apples at all. It only used one apple, in fact. Still, that’s one less apple that needs to get used up, so I suppose it’s apple-using-up goal was still met. In any case, I used this recipe. And by ‘used’, [...]

Maple Apple Crisp

This is, essentially, part 2 of the saga of ‘What to do with all them apples’. I should note that it may also be the last part of said saga as well, as I’ve been sick lately. Being sick means that a.) baking, as it requires effort, does not occur and b.) apples, being full [...]

Apple Harvest Festival Goodies

Recently, a few companions and I headed up to Charlottesville, VA for the Apple Harvest Festival at Carter Mountain Orchard. If there are any great evils in the world that desperately need to be eradicated, two of them are definitely overpriced produce and apples that are coated in wax. The festival attendance conveniently solved both [...]

Maple Apple Crisp, AKA The Terrain of Joy

You will now be presented with the sort of luscious terrain that makes you wish dirt was the fourth point on the food pyramid. Or rather, food stepladder. Or whatever the hell they call that new ‘what you’re technically supposed to be eating instead of the crap you usually eat’ diagram. This is maple apple [...]