My House Smells Good!

After taking the kids Christmas shopping this morning my mom came back with these Gingerbread House Kits. 

It kept them busy for a good little bit.

Beautiful works of art. ;)

I spent MY whole afternoon in the kitchen. 

Guess what I was doing?

Apple Pie time.

Best crust I've made yet.  I'm not sure why but it just rolled out just right.

Apple Crumb Pie. :0

Well that's all just pie in the sky!

"The homemade pie has been under siege for a century, and surely it's survival is endangered." Janet Clarkson

So our neighbor "Mr. John" brought us over about eight juicy, fuzzy Georgia (I think he said GA) peaches the other night.  I knew there was no way we could eat all of them before they went bad.  So what else to do but cut them up to make peach pie!! 

When I lived at home my mom always made her own crust.  Apparently it was a family tradition.  So when I got married I wanted to continue it.  So I asked my mom for the recipe.

Look closely for the drawing of the man playing a flute.  That's a humorous little illustration  for "fluting" the pie.  haha!





 Three pages of instructions!  Actually it's not really that hard to make crust.  It just takes longer.  But it's soo good! 

A ball of dough.

Before the top crust went on.

Baked with love. ;)