November 2006 Archives

It was a quiet, rain soaked Thanksgiving. It was just Karen & me for a turkey dinner. I made an apple pie, trying a tip I heard on NPR a couple of days ago.

This may just be one of those non-problem problems, but when you make a deep dish, two crust, apple pie, the apples cook down. The upper crust starts out resting on the apples, but at the end of baking, the apples have retreated, leaving an "air plane hanger-sized void between the apples and the crust.

The solution: cook down the apples before baking the pie. I made the filling first, adding a few bits of chopped candied ginger and a small handful of craisons. Throw this in a crock pot and let it cook while making the crust.

This didn't result in a lot of cooking. The results of the filling-crust void were inconclusive, but the pie turned out pretty good. Catching the afternoon light through the kitchen window, I am happy with the picture too.

Ron & Ginnie were adopted out almost a year ago, but the crumb-bum adopters didn't bond and gave up on them. Grrr ... Karen & I have been doing the cat sitting visits while J & J are visiting Jordi's folks.

These are some big kittens. These pics don't convey how solid they are, especially Ron. Fred & George are no slouches (couches?) either. Should we take them some turkey for Thanksgiving?

BUDA Fall Hat finished a week later than originally planned. Heavy rains the weekend before Halloween forced the league to postpone the event by one week. This gave us really nice Sunday weather.

2006 has not been a good "W" year for Jen, Jordi, and me, and the regular season continued the trend. But picking up a few sanctioned ringers for the day made us competitive at 2-1-1. Looking forward to Spring Hat now.