I LOVE my husband

Really I do. For many reasons. But one of those reason is because he taught me how to make the most wonderful apple pie. And anyone who knows me knows I'm a sucker for any type of dessert item. Especially a good, warm apple pie. But I hated making them at home because I felt like the apples were always still very tart and crunchy, and I like my apples to be soft and sweet and mushy. :) SO, one day he said - well you have to cook them down first. Before you put them in the pie. Like he was mentioning it passing. Like it's a given.
WELL, I've looked in all of MY cookbooks and none of them mention cooking the apples ahead of time. But I followed his directions and it DOES make the best pie! He said to put around a 1/2 stick of butter in a frying pan, along with sugar, brown sugar and cinnamon and then add your apple slices and cook it all down until the apples are soft and sloopy. Put it all in your crust and bake it until the crust gets brown. Yummy!!
So in the spirit of the nice fall-like weather we've been having lately, I decided it was a apple-pie sort of day. I hauled all of the boys down to an apple farm right by our house and let them loose on the poor lady. She was FABULOUS and took it all in stride. We got some Jonathan apples, which she said are the old-fashioned apple pie apple, after much cajoling got all of the boys back in the car and returned home to make our pie. This method is seriously the best! The pie is so good! Fall is definitely one of my favorite times of the year!
Next - we're going to visit the orchard and pick our own apples! :)