Hi Blog universe. I'm sorry I've been away so long. I got sick around thanksgiving and got out of the blogging swing and to be honest I just haven't been making anything original lately. Well, nothing I make is really original, but I keep making repeats. Roast chicken, spaghetti, enchiladas, pizza (lots of pizza, this baby loves pizza), salmon, chili, etc. Same ol' same ol.
I have to apologize, I might not be able to post pictures of the fantastic things I'm blogging about for a while. You might have to make due with the pictures from the links I post. Our computer is going on the fritz and has contracted some virus that my hubby is trying to get sorted out. Lucky for us he happens to have another OS that is workable on the same computer (yeah I don't get it, I just use it). So I can blog, but I can't load pictures on this OS because the program is in the other virus attacked one. Lame.
In other news.....
I did make this FANTASTIC pie for Thanksgiving. I made it exactly as the recipe states
HERE from Simple Bites
except that I used my Mother in Law's pie crust recipe. Mostly because I have it memorized and because we love it. I don't actually know if I'm allowed to divulge the recipe for that here, so you'll have to make due with your own favorite pie recipe or the one from the link.
I honestly wasn't sure about how this was going to turn out. It looked good in the pictures and sounded decent. I was just so unsure about the streusel topping. Now don't get me wrong, I love a good streusel topping on a muffin or coffee cake, but on pie? On cranberries? Cranberries and orange? I wasn't sure. But since the pumpkin pie was spoken for by my sister in law, and the apple pie was being made by my mother in law, I decided to go off the deep end and bring an experiment to Thanksgiving dinner.
I'm SO glad I did!! I think I will have to make this again for Christmas at my family's celebration. It was so amazing. My husband (who I usually have to pull comments from) even said it was great several times. He even looked at me strangely when I let him have the last piece of it a few days later, like I should have been jealously guarding it for myself. Ha ha!
I'm telling you, you have to make this pie. Go out and buy the ingredients now. You won't regret it.
I know it's extremely late, but Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Advent!
I will probably be posting more about baking adventures and mishaps in the next few weeks as I try to wrap my mind around how to make fudge without corn syrup or marshmallow creme and bake a billion gingerbread cookies for my kiddo's birthday party. Stay tuned. This Advent season is going to be a bake-a-palooza.
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Dear God,
we thank you for giving us time with our relatives, time to relax with our families and time to thank you. Thank you for bodies that heal themselves and all of those things that we forget to thank you for.
Amen.