In weeks 14 and 15 we've had three different squashes, chard, bok choy, cucumbers, apples, potatoes, eggplant, peppers galore (sweet and hot), arugula, and shitake mushrooms. I fucking love arugula. They could have given me a big bag of just that shit and I'd have been happy. Spiciest arugula ever.
I used most of it making more of the same, but there were a few interesting things happening in the kitchen. Week 15 had a few small red apples, but in week 14 we got several green ones. Yuck. I just don't care for green apples at all, but I knew I had read that they were the best in apple pie, so on a whim that Saturday I decided I would try to make an apple pie.
At least my intentions were good.
I used
this recipe, and it was a complete and total flop. The crust was a major fail, but that was no surprise. I've never made a crust that looked pretty. But the filling was just... DRY. I thought that when I was mixing it, but hell, what do I know, I've never made an apple pie before. I thought maybe the apples release their juices as they cook or something. As it turns out, they do not. It tasted
okay, but it was just a little tough to choke down. I bought some vanilla Rice Dream to go with it, and that made it edible, but I tossed out over half of it. The best thing I can say about this pie is it made the house smell good.
And speaking of making the house smell good... CHILI!
I used
Morgan's awesome recipe as a starting point. I've made that several times but changed a few things to use what I had. I used the patty pan squash instead of zucchini, added jalapenos and a purple sweet pepper, even threw in some of the shitake mushrooms, but omitted the avocado and fake meat. WIN! Lip-scorching, asshole-burning hot (I
may have gotten a little carried away with the hot peppers), but still a win!
And I made
this with the rest of the shitakes! Dude. It was AWESOME.
Oh, and FYI, that "cheese" sauce is awesome on a baked potato too.
Tell me about your last kitchen fail!
