Thankgiving 2010

SM and I joined two other families for Thanksgiving this year.  SM volunteered to make an English apple pie...which means to him an apple pie without the pie filling sauce or in his words, apple pie without "pie snot."  We tried a new pie crust recipe (one that  his sister recommended) and we loved it.

I went to a pie making class this fall and the lady teaching the class said that she always piled her apples really high because they bake down and she loves lots of apples in her pie.  So, we tried to do the same.  Here's the pie before we put the crust over the top.  We used twelve LARGE Granny Smith apples in the pie.  My biggest worry was how long to bake the pie.  So, I used my nose.  When a baking dish is almost done, the aroma from the oven seems to intensify and so I used this as my method, though, as we were taking the pie to Thanksgiving, I was still worried that it wasn't cooked all the way...but luckily, it was.  You could serve this pie with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream, but SM and I prefer just pouring cream over your own piece of pie.

And here's the table of Thanksgiving food.  Doesn't that look amazing?!  The apple pie is also on the table, just in the middle of all the food.  I think it was put there just to look nice because we had to wait a while after eating our meal before anyone had room for pie.