Apple Crisp

One night when I was up late, watching t.v., I caught an episode of "the best thing I ever ate…" on Food Network (my favorite channel!). One of the chefs was going on and on about this apple crisp she had at a restaurant and the thing looked AMAZING!! They don't give out the recipe, but they do tell what they add and the process in which they do it in, yay! SO, I created it. And, in my opinion, it's more of an apple pie than a crisp…but whatever! It's delish!!

 

Phyllo dough

4T butter, melted

4-6 granny smith apples peeled, cored

1 ½ C. Cinnamon sugar

2 ½ C golden raisins soaked in spiced rum (optional)

2 C. sour cream

½ C. Rose water (regular water is o.k. too!)

Whip cream

 

*Defrost phyllo dough according to package directions. Butter the bottom and sides of a 9x13 baking dish. Butter both sides of phyllo dough with melted butter and lay down one by one in baking dish, repeat this four times. Peel, core and thinly slice apples then toss them with the cinnamon sugar so it is evenly coated. Place apples on top of phyllo dough, sprinkle raisins over apples. Combine sour cream and rose water and spread on top of apples. Bake @350* until bubbly. When apple mixture is hot and bubbly remove from the oven and layer phyllo dough with melted butter on both sides again times 4. Bake until golden brown. Serve with fresh whip cream or a side of vanilla ice cream. Enjoy!!!

JEFF!!!

Jeff: looking good, feeling good!

Hunter, the bus rider!

Hunter had a pretty traumatic experience the 3rd day of school.  I told him over and over that he was not to ride the school bus home from school, that for the 1st week I was going to pick him up.  I told him to tell the teacher that his mom was going to get him, that he was not to be put on the bus.  Poor Hunter...I forgot to write a note last Wednesday and the teacher told him since she didn't see a note, he had to ride the bus.  I guess he got pretty upset about it and kept telling her "NO, I'm not supposed to ride the bus"!!!  But, she didn't have anything in writing from me, so did what she thought she needed too and sent him with the teachers aide to get on the bus.  So, when the bell rang and Jeff went up to the door to retrieve him, I saw him walk away without Hunter...I immediately knew what happened; they had put him on the bus!!  Jeff came walking hand in hand with a very upset little Hunter a few minutes later.  His face was bright red and streaked with tears.  I tried talking to him, but he was pretty upset that he was almost forced to be on the bus, he told me he didn't want to talk!  Jeff told me that when he was walking up to the buses, he heard a big commotion and noticed a little boy fighting one of the teachers and screaming very loudly that he wasn't getting on that bus!!  He laughed and told me "Hunter was swinging his arms and trying to hit her and get away from her any way he could; I had to break it up"!!  That made me laugh that Hunter was fighting so hard to not get on the bus!!  He sure was listening to his Mama!!  Good BOY I told him!!

This week I taught him how to ride the bus and prepared him for it and he loves it!!  He told me "I'm riding the bus every day"!!!

First day of Kindergarten!!!

Hunter started Kindergarten this year and is having a blast!!  He was getting pretty restless around the 2nd week of August and both of us were ready for him to be back in school!