Make Yourself Feel Better...

...with feel good food!

First, you need to have a good friend who brings you a big box of apples!
From that point on? What else but have some fun! Wing it!
Dance the Hokey Pokey! ~~Sing at the top of your lungs~~
**You put your right foot in,You put your right foot out;
**You put your right foot in, And you shake it all about.
**You do the Hokey-Pokey, And you turn yourself around.
**That's what it's all about!
You cannot ruin the "Feel Good" that this is all about!
And if you live where we do, no one will notice that you've lost your marbles!
No one will be calling the Psych ward to have you hauled off!
Apple Pie is Just*Plain*Old*Fashioned "Feel Good Food" no matter what you do to it!

From this box, grab 8-9-10- 11 ??? of the largest ones from the top!

Remember..."An Apple A Day, Keeps the Doctor Away"! So load it up!

Juggle them as your walk back into the kitchen!

If you don't know how? That's alright, they don't splat too bad!

And it certainly won't hurt the apples nor will it hurt your floor!

Remember, practice-practice-practice makes perfect!

Have fun every chance you can! Create your own laughter when all else fails!

These happen to be Honey Crisps from the Yakima Valley.

Hopefully, they bake up and will be as good as Granny Smiths.

...Sounds like just the right combination to me...

**Cowboy is my Honey and I am a Granny! **

Should be perfect don't you think?

I will be adding some lemon~ in case they are not tart enough.

Not that we are sour-pusses, but we do like a tart pie!

Notice the knife?

I must warn you! They C-A-N & they W-I-L-L cut you! Any chance they get! They are vindictive, trust me!

Lord knows you don't want to end up like me these days!

Since I knew of no other way, I felt I had to use a knife to make my "Feel Good Food"!

I DID, carefully, tuck & roll my pinkie out of the way!

I do that now-a-days because it is "dead"...no feeling at all left in it.

Now, Peel & Core, Peel & Core...slice, slice, slice! Peel & Core, Peel & Core ...Cha-cha-chá.

I know.... I know, you aren't dummies and I'm no author qualified to write a book called

"Apple Pie Making for Dummies"...sorry....I know you know that!

(Since we no longer have chickens, the discards will go into my compost pile #3.)

Add your sugar, ** blah, **blah...**blah...

I don't use recipes for anything, so I can't tell you what to do from here.

But you probably wouldn't listen if I tried! No one else listens, so my expectations of you "invisible people" are not any grander.

Sorry, you are on your own, just make it GOOD so it makes YOU feel good!

Dump the lot into your pie crust...sorry Elliemae, I just couldn't make myself place them in such a pretty order as you do...I just dump and go!

The more the better!

Ha!
I bet you were thinking...looking at that awesome picture taken from my extravagant 8 year old $20 camera,

that I'd never get a "lid" on it! Ha Ha! I did!

Don't you think that "lid" kind of looks like the night cap Laura Ingalls wore on "Little House on the Prairie"? I have practice! And remember, practice makes perfect!

I do know all about living on the prairie, just ask Hydro...she will answer you with a grumbled "Yea...."

Be sure to throw an enormous heaping of love on top of it...see the Heart 'vent'?

This is Very Very important!

If you forget this step it will turn out to be only "Feel Good Some of the Time Food"

No... we need "Feel Good Food".. Now"!

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The best part of this fun day, dancing, singing, juggling and splatting apples where they lay, is when this "Feel Good Food" comes out from the oven almost an hour later, dripping with piping hot, sticky sweet goo...steaming with the aroma of baked apple goodness!

Ahhh-h-h-h-h what a Good Feeling!

Yea, I know, I still have to clean the floor from the splattered apples do my ineptness at juggling and I must clean the sticky sweet goo that is plastered inside the ovens bottom layer...
but what the heck...
There is always tomorrow!

Did I lick up the counter of all that yummy goo? Darned right I did!
... when it cooled off enough to not burn my tongue.
No sense in wasting any of the Good Feeling!

What apples are left in the box, will be turned into applesauce tomorrow; I can always turn applesauce into some other "Feel Good Food" later.