Apple Of My Eye Pie

For my last birthday, one of my friends made me an apple pie that I could actually eat and I'll love her forever for making it! It was good, but she had a rough time with the crust and we weren't sure how to make the pie sweet, so my Mama made it her mission to figure out an easier crust and a sweetener. This is what she came up with.

Ingredients:
1 1/5 c Rice Flour
1/2 ts Baking powder
2 large eggs, beaten
Large pinch of salt
1/2 c melted butter
1 lemon
Dates

9" pie pan
wax paper
2 bowls

For the sweetener:

Squeeze the juice from one half of a lemon.

Pit about 6 to 10 dates.

Mix the dates and lemon juice in a blender until they are a thick sauce.

Now, slice and peel the apples and add the sweetener sauce to them.

For the crust:

In a bowl, beat eggs and butter.

In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, and salt.

Stir dry mixture in to wet mixture and mix well.

Mix well and separate into two balls.

Place in refrigerator for 10 to 15 minutes until hard and cold.

Sprinkle rice flour onto wax paper.

Carefully place one dough onto wax paper and sprinkle more rice flour on top.

Place another piece of wax paper on top of it and slowly roll out the dough.

Once rolled, carefully spatula off top layer of wax paper and turn pie plat upside down on the dough.

Quickly flip over the plate and dough so the dough is inside the plate. Spatula off the wax paper.

Fix any cracks or holes.

It isn't Betty Crocker, but it'll do!

Then, add the sweetened apples to the crust.

Roll out the other crust on wax paper (with rice flour sprinkled underneath and on top of it) and quickly flip it ontop of the pie.

If will probably fall apart and you'll end up patching together pieces of it. That's okay, it looks more homemade that way.

Bake for about 20 or 30 minutes. Make sure it's long enough for the apples to soften but not too long or the crust will get crumbley.







                                                                     VOILA!

It pretty much looks like the real thing!

It doesn't taste much different, either.

Our next goal is whipped cream to put on top!

We also baked the apple skins to make some chips.

The results were questionable but I still ate them.

In other words, they were burned yet soggy.

For Christmas, we made an apple crumble. The recipe for that is coming soon!

Sunday Shenangigans

Riding!

Cafe Gratitude!

Not a bad way to spend a Sunday!

Now I CAN Eat That

Recent additions to the YES list:
Barley
Coconut
Grapes
Kumut
Roasted nuts
Lamb
Duck

The rest of the list can be found here.

Snack Attack

I am blessed to have some extremely awesome people in my life who keep an eye out for things I AM allowed to eat.

These two items were recently bestowed upon me by one of my favorite people:

Chocola Tree Cafe Nori Nachos





GoRaw Super Cookies



I'd never had nori before and tend to hate anything that comes from the sea, but the chips were surprisingly good. I went on their website and found a whole slew of other snacks I'm going to try, all of which are pretty reasonably priced.

The cookies were really great, but I'm not really supposed to have dates, so I'll have to hold off on buying more of those, seeing as how eating only a couple of them a day, over several days, was a true test of self-restraint. Their website also has a lot of fun looking treats.

Also, I've noticed that pre-packaged snacks regularly come in miniatures. Because I have nothing better to do and I think it's funny, I've been seeking out snack-sized foods like these baby bellpeppers: