apple cranberry pie

so the best thing about the mister's new job is that if he makes nice with the culinary students who work the cafe, they bring him beautiful pies like this for us to fatten up on.

apples and cranberries.

so delicious.

so pretty.

I may eat this whole pie over the weekend.

yeah I said it.

then I will run several miles.

apple cobbler cookies

recipe here.

They taste more like an apple crisp than cobbler, but who's asking all these questions when all a girl wants to do is eat cookies.  It's basically oatmeal cookies with chopped up apples instead of raisins.  Why do people ruin oatmeal cookies with raisins anyway?

and of course you could eat these and call it meatless monday!

easy apple snack

We had craft night last Friday night (another blog post to com) and I was scrambling to make a snack.  Here's what I came up with...

apple havarti crescent bites

peeled, "cubed" granny smith apples

one block of havarti cheese

refrigerated crescent roll dough

honey (optional)

cut dough in small triangles (about half the size of the precut triangles)

wrap an apple cube and a small cut of cheese

for a slightly sweeter taste, add a small dot of honey before wrapping

Bake according to directions on crescent packaging

not one leftover!

yum yum to the tum tum!

butter.

For the past 7 years, I have enjoyed a baking day during the holidays with my friend Bethany.  We used to bake ginger snaps and other fun sweet treats, but this year we got together with a couple more friends and decided to make pumpkin butter and apple butter.  The pumpkin butter ended up with a better consistency, but they both had a great taste.  Here's how the canning went...

Robbie and put the butter in sterilized jars.

The jars go back into super hot boiling water... ouch!

I got the hiccups so I stopped to breathe deep and slow... it makes your hiccups go away instantly!  Has never failed me.

All done and ready to label and give away!

Let's pose for a picture...

I look like a sleepyhead... wait, I am!