Updates and thanksgiving fun..

  Whew! Thanksgiving went fast. Jon's grandparents were in town for a few days and we got to get a tour of Jon's work. That was really quite interesting and it was really great to spend so much time with such lovely people. The next day was Thanksgiving and I was in charge of making two different kinds of cranberry sauce and making a dessert.. I was stumped on the dessert for a long time.. What goes good with Thanksgiving... I didn't feel like making anything with Pumpkin.. So I chose making something with Apples. I remembered seeing a recipe for a Salted Caramel Apple pie in a magazine that I had..



The only other time I made a pie, I made a Fail Pumpkin Pie. Why Fail you ask? Because  I used a store bought crust and the filling I guess just didn't want to set and the pie slipped out of my hands as I was taking it out of the oven.. Im sure the oven door thought it was tasty ;)

I was pretty apprehensive to make an apple pie with a completely home made crust.. It was only my second pie attempt... and really an apple pie? Dream big Rachie

So I took a deep breath... and started the process..
The crust was an Oat Pastry crust which sounds weird.. but stay with me here.. It turned out amazing and it might become my go to crust. 😊

the Crust 

The Apples drizzled with Caramel 

the Pie!

After baking the pie .. It really wasn't as daunting as I had thought.. After making the crust it really came together pretty quickly.  I would say it turned out pretty beautiful




Now for the update part..... 

I have decided to redo the blog a little bit.. maybe give it different layout and a header so it will be under construction for a little bit..  and .....

I now own www.fromthehearttotheplate.com :) I have to switch around some stuff before it redirects but yay! I have a domain name.

Super Official.


Next up on the blog :

-Try and Make the Apple Cider
-Bake Healthy chocolate chip cookies (subbing a healthier flour and butter/oil)
-My Grandmothers Mandelbrot (Jewish Biscotti)
-some kind of muffins



You ever reaaaally have that thought where you dont want to work out ..but you pump yourself up by listening to music and you just bite the bullet and work out .. and then you feel so much better and more energized .. Yeah.. definitely got my gold star for the day.