I baked a lot this week. After the orchard, we had a LOT of fruit. I had plans to make a raspberry tart and a cinnamon apple cheesecake. Greg requested a cobbler.
Here's my raspberry "cobbler" (it looks like a crisp, if you ask me) before baking.
Here are the tarts before fruit adornment.
Tart Design #1.
Tart Design #2.
Drizzled with raspberry preserves.
Drenched in raspberry preserves.
I had to use up the rest of the raspberries because they were starting to spoil. I thought I'd make some yummy raspberry applesauce. I boiled it down with sugar.
The next night I added chopped apples. Greg said, "Well, just don't let it burn." I didn't listen. Here's the best part -- On Tuesday morning I got the tarts out of the refrigerator (one to take to my work and one to send to Greg's work). Jacob's face went completely blank and he ran to the refrigerator and opened the door. "WHERE ARE THE RASPBERRIES?" "Um, I had to use them. They were getting yucky." "But I wanted to eat them!" "Jake, they had to be used last night. We can get more at the store." "But I wanted
those raspberries." He's right. They were much tastier than store raspberries. Unfortunately, they only last about a day.
Making cheesecake on Tuesday night.
Sauteeing apples for the cheesecake. Apples, sugar... yum.
Apple cobbler. This really did look like apple cobbler.
Apple cinnamon cheesecake. Not very pretty, but
sooooo delicious.
A close up of the moist deliciousness.
Inside. That's a gingersnap crust, sauteed apples, and cinnamon-apple cheesecake.
The makings of delicious cookies... (the cream cheese was for something else, actually). Use
Ghiradelli chocolate in your cookies, and you'll probably never go back to Nestle (until you see how much cheaper Nestle is when it goes on sale...).
Oh, and Girl Scout Stew for dinner. Simple and tasty!
Blackbottom cake before baking.
And baking.
And done.
Do you want some?
G'ma's green beans, slightly modified (I only had bacon crumbles, not actual bacon cooked just for this). Still good! The kids wolfed them down.
A homemade biscuit. They were kind of like Red Lobster biscuits -- butter, garlic, cheddar.
The beginnings of homemade pudding.
Homemade pie crust.
Pudding cooking on the stove.
Adding chocolate to the pudding.
Wax paper to prevent a skin from forming... and sorry, this is where the chocolate pudding pie photos end. I brought freshly whipped cream to work in a separate container and added it right before serving. This was for a baby shower for my former team manager, Jackie.
Oh, Wednesday night I made cookie dough for the Snack Sale at work (to benefit the American Heart Association). The dough has to sit in the refrigerator for 24-36 hours. I baked them on Thursday night... The cookies are about five inches in diameters and super rich. They sold for a dollar each at the sale!
And now I'm done for a while. We had Burger King tonight and we're doing easy stuff for dinner tomorrow night (I'm marinating chicken right now and Greg's going to grill it...).
Jacob HATED the t-shirt. He thought he looked stupid, and only wore it briefly for the photos.
Goofing around before the walk.
Benjamin didn't mind the shirt.
Anne with some of the loot from various booths.
Batman... with glitter!
Jacob and Auntie Anne walking.
Benjamin was pretty sleepy. He was a good sport for most of it, but just wanted to be held at the end.
I wish I had had the camera focused on them correctly. This would have been such a cute photo!
We met up with George Bob and Papa afterwards for lunch at a japanese steak house. Benjamin insisted on having a lemon wedge.
He makes a funny face, but always goes back for more.
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