Thanks to Operation Ogre Mother, big girl L made supper, which freed me up to make apple pie for dessert.
It seemed a good time to try out the whole wheat pie crust recipe that had so darn many healthy ingredients it looked too good to be true, and sadly, was, so if you saw the recipe on my previous post, I would have to say don’t even bother. Unless you like a crunchy, chewy, thick, stodgy consistency to your pastry.
Still, it gave me a chance to pull out my all time favorite pioneer gadget. The apple peeler/corer/slicer.
It doesn’t really save time with apple preparation, but it sure is gintchy.
The apples come out looking like this:
The skins sometimes end up like this:
and it even makes an apple Slinky™. How great is that?
