Food Rules

Bountiful Baskets share from a few weeks ago.

Just have to share this link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/10/11/magazine/20091011-foodrules.html

Tab through these rules-most of us wouldn't be hurt at all by following most of these rules.

And I really like Michael Pollan's food rule about junk food. You can eat all the junk food you want as long as you make it.

Apple Pie from a picture book

An Apple Pie for Dinner by Susan VanHecke complete with recipe at the end.



Baked apple pie from the book.


And, happily, it was an apple pie that set up correctly.

It was a pretty good apple pie but not the best we've ever made. I still think Romes with Granny Smiths make a great apple pie but its almost impossible to find Rome apples anymore.

Find more books and info on Susan VanHecke at: http://susanvanhecke.com/ (She also wrote some books on the history of Rock and Roll.)

Read more about projects by Carol Baicker-McKee at: http://www.doodlesandnoodles.blogspot.com/ (She has some wonderful projects for valentines and other holidays with advice about art supplies.)

Quiche and Caramel Apples

Sarah's lovely quiche with homemade crust. Filled with cheddar cheese and a bit of Parmesan, it was a lovely light dish for Sunday supper. Find the recipes at recipezaar. Thanks for the quiche recipe #86516 and the quiche crust recipe #18185 (we found we needed to add more flour and next time we might cut down the oil just a little).

Another recent endeavor was the making of caramel apples-an appropriate activity to discuss for the month of October. D1 chose to put chocolate sprinkles on her apple, D2 just wanted plain caramel and DM just wanted to eat the caramel plain with not an apple in view.

Birthday Puzzle

One of the gifts Sarah received was this 300 piece puzzle: Roger Nannini "Home Sweet Home" Apple Glen with 300 pieces and measuring 24" x 18" from Ceaco. It mentions it's for ages 12 and up but we all worked on it a little and finished it in less then a couple of weeks. All the detail and words in the puzzle made it easier to put together than the tiger puzzle we did earlier.