Portabellopixie

Lunch!

I sat down today to write up the apple pie recipe I raved about yesterday and started scratching my head.  I realized I'm not to sure about cookbook / online etiquette in sharing of recipes.  What is your experience with it?

Also - when does a recipe become "yours"?  How many changes do you have to make to something to claim it as your own?  Or if you start from another recipe to begin with, no matter how many changes you make to something, should it never be claimed as your own?

I just finished the exhausting (albeit fun) task of writing my first book and don't want to break cookbook sharing rules.  So tell me whatcha guys have found to be the norm?

For now, I will share our lunch today.  Leftover chicken noodle soup - so so good and better the second day!

  

 

That is my last apple bowl.  Do you remember them?  (I tried to find the post where I shared them first, but couldn't.)  They have dwindled away, one break at a time and I cherish the last one, but not enough to stop using it.  If it breaks, it breaks.  At least we'll have memories of soups, cereal and ice cream enjoyed in the bowl.

The Lovely Bones was lovely.  Sad of course, but good.  Weird, but just enough.  I'd recommend it.

Let's Talk about Apple Pie

Pie.

Apple Pie to be precise.

Have you ever heard the phrase "as American as Apple Pie?"

Of course you have!  Everyone has, and every time I hear it, I hang my head in shame.  You see, I do not like apple pie.  I don't care for the soft, cooked fruit, or the squishy crust. 

However, I love the idea of apple pie.  I love the look of it, the smell, the flavors.  I love the idea of harvesting apples in the crisp cool autumn air and going home and slicing those apples up by hand and creating and apple pie.

Every time I am around one of these concoctions, I give it a try, determined that my taste buds will have matured to the point that I can start actually using the phrase "as American as apple pie" instead of hiding when it is used.

Well.

My time has come.  I have come up with THE best apple pie ever.  It is a crumbly topped pie, which I'll share pictures of when it's done.  I can truly say that I LOVE this pie.  And if you are of the apple pie hater club, I hope you give this one a try.  Recipe will come with picture of the finished loveliness tomorrow.

Tonight - I am celebrating.  Celebrating a humongous work week over.  Celebrating that I survived the dentist this morning.  (Don't tell him I came home and made a pie!) Celebrating with homemade chicken soup that is calling my name.  Celebrating by going on a date with my hubby.  We each have Barnes & Noble gift cards from Christmas calling our names.  And a fabulous looking new movie to catch.

See you soon!

Sandi

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'S Good for the Soul

 

I know that when I start getting the emails saying "is everything okay?" that it has been too long since my last post.  :)  Thank you for checking in on me, everything is A-O-K around here.  We're just caught up in one of those working flurries right now.  Finishing the photography for my book (I've even stepped in FRONT of the camera for a bit) and clearing the dust after the holidays. 

I can't wait to show you Eliza's dollhouse and Ethan's teepee tent.  It was a fabulous Christmas.  Excuse me for a few more days, and I'll take down the Christmas decorations on the blog and get back to a bit of a more regular blogging pace. 

I've decided that I need to share more of my cooking here this year - I love cooking and don't know why I've never brought it on here much before.  2009 was the year of getting healthy for me, learning how to cook well was a really important part of that for me.  I rang in the new year by making my first pot of homemade chicken stock - it smelled heavenly.

Here's a wee sneak from one of the photoshoots we did this week.

See you soon!