Question of the Day

What's better than apple pie for breakfast

We've got a bounty of apples here on the Island.  No one seems to know why the trees are simply groaning with apples. Or why the deer haven't already stripped them clean.  Even in my own yard, they didn't demolish their favorite tree, an old grandmother of a Golden Delicious that isn't very big anymore. And it's all bent over so the apples are easy to reach.  Nope.  They didn't get them this year.  Maybe it's because there are so many other trees to snack off of.  Or because I got there first, (which means picking before the apples are really ripe.)  Smuggly and happily,  I got to that tree first, and made a few pies and cobblers, which we proceeded to eat for dessert for dinner, and for breakfast.   And for lunch, too, if there was even a crumb left.  Every serving with a satisfying squirt of whipped cream from a can.

O.K.  Who out there can resist a can of whipped cream?  I'm totally opposed to arosole cans  these days, with the exception of whipped cream. I can't give it up.

I digress.  I sliced up the rest of the apples, sprinked on sugar and spices and put them in Zip-locks in the freezer, thinking I was oh so clever having pies ready to go for months to come.  Then a friend trumped me by saying HER mother gets those tin foil pie pans and puts her apple pie filling in them and freezes them that way.  When she wants a pie, she just takes one out from the freezer and pops it into a pie crust, tops it off and sticks it into the over.

(Incidently, I've tried freezing a whole, ready-to-go pie and it seems kind of soggy.  I don't know how Marie Caulender does it.)

I thought I was set.  Then my kid and his friend brought home two huge bags of windfalls from up by the road.  Another neighbor told me about an orchard with more ripe and ready apples just a short walk away. 

So I'm getting a chance to try lots of cobbler and crisp recipes from the endless file of torn out and saved "hmmm, that looks tasty" recipes.  I won't make a recommendation.  You've all got your own play list. 

Last night friends came over to dinner.  She brought dessert.  Apple pie.

It featured a thick, sugar cookie-like crust unlike any I'd ever made or even tasted.  I'm heating up the last two slices for breakfast while I type this.

Fortunately, she brought vanilla ice cream to serve with it. I would have hated to have apple pie for breakfast without the dairy part of the meal---spray on whip cream