I told you things would be hoppin' in the kitchen last night, and they were. Elenka got busy and I HELPED, a bit. On the right, that's her pumpkin pecan and then the old reliable apple on the left. I peeled the apples for her, and that simple process brought me back. When Mom made her apple pies, she'd peel her large apples in one long consecutive strip from top to bottom. Sitting along side on a stool, I'd gobble ( sorry, I had to use that verb) the strip of apple skin, like it was a long string of spaghetti. The skin of the apple was my favorite part. Most of the time, the macintosh was her apple of choice for pies, but at least once she made a pie for just me with my favorite apple, the yellow delicious. I guess you could say, on at least this one occasion, I was the 'apple of her eye'. Bad pun! Over the next few days, I'm going to sample lots of pies. I might even find a mincemeat pie. Dad loved these. His oldest son did too. I'll be on a pie quest shortly!
Sounds like a delicious quest to be on!
ReplyDeleteOoh, pie quest! Yummmm. We're baking five today: 2 pumpkin, 2 pecan and 1 cherry. Mm, mmm, mmmm.
ReplyDeletemy favorite is pecan but i'll save that one for christmas. i'll make a pumpkin pie today. i don't like pumpkin but the rest of the fam does. i'll also make a french apple...which i do like!
ReplyDeletemy grandma was the pie maker when i was growing up. i remember when we'd come over to her house, we always entered the back door (that's where all family and friends came in and nobody knocked)..you'd walk through the laundry room and she'd have her pies cooling on top of the washing machine. there was almost always a lemon meringue pie or two cooling and i could never resist to break off the peaks of meringue as i was walking by. i'd always get caught, grandma always knew it was me ;) she would also make my grandpa a mincemeat pie, just for him on the holidays...i think he was the only one who liked them!
have a happy thanksgiving!!
i loved peeling apples w/ my mom, too. i didn't eat the peel, though.
ReplyDeleteI can smell the sweet smell of your pies baking all the way to KY -- that is through your post of course -- barbara
ReplyDeleteYup I'd be in that quest, except not any kind of pie that has kidney in it haha!
ReplyDeleteSweet! I stumbled onto a pie sampling at a local coffee house-bakery yesterday. Like falling into a vat of pure yum.
ReplyDeleteThe skin of the apple was my favorite part.
ReplyDeleteThey say that's where the most vitamins and other goodies are.
I'm still intrigued by the pumpkin pecan pie!
ReplyDeleteHmmm. At least if Elenka needed additional crust, she had you there. Looking good!
ReplyDeleteSounds good. My husband's favorite pie is mincement.
ReplyDeleteThose look tasty.
ReplyDeletePies are the kings of deserts as far as I am concerned. My wife's "Scrumptious Apple Pie" is the best I've ever had.
ReplyDeleteThe smell of pie baking in the oven is nearly as good as sitting down to eat a piece of it. We'll have pumpkin pie with tomorrow's dinner of smoked turkey plus all the usual side dishes. Have a happy Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteI've never known someone who loves the apple peel! I do try to get it off in one long spiral each time, and like your mom, I prefer Macintosh apples for pies and crisps.
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