Tip of the Day

If you’re having trouble finding bags of Mother’s Cookie Parade, try your friendly neighborhood Albertson’s. I was able to find Animal Cookies at two or three other store, but I don’t particularly care for them and was getting desperate for some more Cookie Parade. Albertson’s – at least the one nearest my house – has about 30 bags each of Cookie Parade, Iced Oatmeal Cookies, and Lemonade Iced Oatmeal Cookies on display. It was separate from the cookie aisle, where they had the full selection of Mother’s Cookies, and the bags were not on sale. At all. But I bought 5 anyway.

And, if you’re living somewhere they don’t have Albertson’s (like, say, Egypt) maybe you should email your address to mikaroni at gmail dot com so someone nice can ship you a couple bags for Christmas!

Disaster!

Very bad news – at least one of the grocery stores in Provo has ALREADY stopped carrying Mother’s Cookies!

What am I going to do??

The Talented and Popular Me

…made apple pie at Quimberlee’s house tonight.

A few days ago we were given a bag of 7 large-ish apples that we weren’t sure what to do with, especially since we have no oven. (Really. There is no oven or range in our apartment. Unbelievable!) Fortunately, we do have a few friends still, and Quimberlee recently bought a house in Orem that actually came with an oven.

So, armed with our apples and a pie crust recipe, we headed over. The Romgi and Quentin peeled and sliced the apples while Kimberlee and I got the pie crust ready. Coincidentally, Quimberlee has an apple tree (or trees…?) that they picked about 40lbs of apples from this weekend, so we could make as many pies or tarts as we wanted. Anyway, once we got the crust rolled out, we faced the task of getting it into the pie pan–a task that required all four of us working delicately. Maybe with more practice and more flour I could do it on my own. Maybe.

In went the apple filling, on went the top crust, on went the decorative pie crust leaves, and in went the pie to bake deliciously while we played Phase 10.

I won, but the Romgi will insist it’s only because I skipped him in the 5th phase when I should have skipped Kimberlee.

Finally, the timer went off, and we pulled out a beautiful (but very homemade-looking) apple pie, baked to golden brown perfection. Although it was a little bit too soupy inside, the crust was just right, the apples were exquisite, and despite the lack of vanilla ice cream I had two huge slices.

So did everyone else.

Hooray for apple pie! Hooray for friends and successful recipes! (Pictures soon, I hope.)