Odds and Ends, and reviews!

I have been so very tired. I don't' post on here because I think about it about midnight, when I'm too tired! But tonight, I am making myself. Its only 4 minutes before midnight, so I should have 4 minutes of energy left.

Here are some posts I ended to do near Rosh Hoshanah. But as you can see, that didn't happen.

Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. And as every culture, we want it to be sweet. So we eat Apples and Honey to remind us of that! So here's my pic to show you all my wish that you have a sweet new year!

To go with the theme of Apples and Honey, one of my readers took my apple pie recipe and did exactly what I hope everyone does. She TRIED IT! Only, in true chef fashion, she modified it. Now that's my kind of cook!!

Here are her comments. "Your have posted a recipe for a one crust apple pie with honey. It sounds wonderful. I am bringing desserts to our holiday dinners and am bringing a honey cake with lemon syrup topping and want to make an apple crisp. Do you think this recipe would set up enough without the bottom crust or should I add more corn starch? Thanks." I replied to her that I believed it could as I've made apple crisp before with honey. And then after the fact. "The apple crumble (or whatever it was) came out great. My only complaint was with the apples I chose. The Granny Smiths softened more than I would have liked. But I do like the honey much better than sugar and will continue to use the honey from now on. Thanks"

I notice that if I don't use my GS apples while they are at their greenest and firmest, they do soften quite a bit. So, try it again with very firm apples (if yours weren't already), or go with another firm apple. I have no options with my apples, I'm allergic to all but GS and Gravensteins.

My last photo is of MiniB Muffin with her food creation from the children's class. Sukkot is the most recent holiday we were studying (there are Four happening this month!!!), and so to get the kids interested in class, and because messy food is fun, they made graham cracker Sukkahs! Those candies and marshmallow creme probably isn't even close to being vegetarian, let alone healthy, so she didn't end up eating much of her sukkah, but she she had fun making it!

Have a good evening and I hope to post again tomorrow!