The Fruit of our Labor

After apple picking a couple of weeks ago, my husband and I had a lot of apples to eat. I took a bag to work for co-workers to eat, I ate several for lunches, and still we had a lot left. So, of course, we had to get creative in how to make good use out of all of the delicious apples we picked. That's when we both thought....

APPLE PIE!

I have never made a pie of any kind, but I figured that it can't be too hard. So, I searched the web for easy recipes, as well as healthy recipes. I found the following, which was by far the easiest out there (courtesy of Epicurious.com):

Ingredients:

1/4 cup apple juice

1/2 cup brown sugar

4 tbsp light butter at room temperature

4 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced

2 tbsp cornstarch

2 refridgerated ready-made pie crusts

1 tsp cinnamon

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine apple juice, sugar, and butter in a bowl. Add apples and cornstarch. Fill 1 of the ready-made pie crusts with the mixture. Slice the 2nd pie crust into 1/2 inch strips and drape over filled pie shell in a criss-cross pattern; pinch edges to fasten to bottom crust. Bake 55 mins or until golden brown. Sprinkle top with cinnamon.

Here's how the pie turned out!!

I'm not usually one to toot my own horn, but the pie is DELICIOUS!! My husband agrees (and he is not an easy one to please). I'm on my 2nd piece so far tonight. Yummmmm....