Apples & Spice & Everything Nice! And, tribute to Lois's pies!

Do you smell that?? I sure do; and it's not what we usually smell here at our house, ha. Get a little closer. Ok, closer. Now closer. One more time. Now, take a deeeeep breath. That's the smell of my homemade apple pies that just came out of the oven! Mmmm.....

Now, these aren't just any pies. These are "Lois" pies. Lois is my best friend's (Jennifer's) mom. She is a wonderful, wonderful cook. She is also famous for her apple pie. Really, it's the best.

Five of us girls went to see Lois back in Feb 2007 for a pie-making day to learn from the best. Let me just say that pie-making isn't as easy as it looks. It takes practice, love, and is really an 'art'. I have the love part but the rest is yet to be learned.

I dug up some pics off Mel's facebook acct (thanks, Mel) from our pie-making day.

This is me, Lisa, Jennifer, Lois, and Mindy. We weren't the best pie-makers but we had on super cute aprons (from Anthropologie!) and that's really what counts.

Here's the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker.... no, wait... we were all just bakers. Nevermind. This is Jennifer, Mel, Mindy, me, and Lisa after baking pies with Lois.

So........... today I got out my old recipe from Lois and decided to give it another whirl. Keegan and I went to Anderson Orchard on the SE side of town (http://www.andersonorchardpv.com/ go there if you can!). We picked out a bag of apples and came home and baked two pies!!!

I will note that I haven't actually tasted the pies yet (but can promise you that they are NOT as good as Lois's). I also didn't have any Granny Smith apples. In fact, I didn't have any apples from the Smith family-- not Grandpa Smith, Cousin Smith, Uncle Smith..... so I hope what I used was OK.

Here are some pictures. And, stop by for some pie when you get a chance!

Get to work, kid.


Voila!!!!!!!!!!

PS I know it looks like Keegan did all the work but he hasn't learned to take my picture yet. But, either way, there is nothing wrong with a little bit of child-labor. :)

Comments

Jenn B said…
these look just like mom's! Way to start the fall season off right!
September 21, 2008 at 6:21 PM
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