Snow Day!!

            We are under a foot of snow! Classes have been cancelled, the University is almost entirely shut down, the heat is cranked up, and I am still procrastinating. The blizzard has not altered my due dates for class assignments, which means that the paper I am very slowly struggling to write is approaching even faster. Also, all of this time I’m spending cooped up in my apartment means it looks like a total disaster. So of course, I made apple pie.

Super awkward shape for a slice of pie,
but aesthetics were never my strong suit.

            Technically, I made this pie last night, but it is meant to be eaten cold, so I figured it would go along nicely with today’s frozen landscape. This pie is not your traditional American apple pie; it is Apple-Custard pie. It reminds me a bit of a lemon-icebox type dish. Basically, you fill a piecrust with sliced apples and pour a cinnamon, vanilla custard over it. Then when the custard sets, you have an almost layered and totally delicious dessert.

            Since my last piecrust making adventure, I have purchased a rolling pin. It helped SO much!! I also did a better job with adding the water to make the crust more uniform. It wasn’t quite perfect yet though. I still need to roll it out thinner. There were parts of the pie that were uncooked because the crust was really thick. I managed to get it reasonably uniform, but just not quite thin enough. I think Moosewood still has a couple other pie recipes so I can practice.

            But for now, I will just keep eating pie and doing anything possible to motivate myself to finish this paper. I’ve managed to get a few things done so far, but my priorities now need to be on this paper and clean my apartment.