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.

I've Been Doing Some Heavy Research...

...on WHY humans must eat!

I've devoted my life pushed a few buttons, spent many hours a few minutes

and years in search of a simple answer.

It was to be my thesis of life brightest post!

I persevered through every waking hour tab I opened,
seeking the answer to a question that haunted my palette.

"WHY didn't our Creator provide for our total nourishment needs

through the absorption of the air we breathe?"

This question led to others...

"Did Taco Bell or McDonalds pull some strings?"

"Did Safeway or Albertson's make a special deal?"

"How about Lily Miller or Burpee..what did they promise?"

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~FYI~
(in case you are not as conscious as I presume you are)
FOOD: Nourishment eaten in solid or liquid form
PREPARATION: the act of preparing something
EATING: (formally, ingestion) is the process of consuming food to provide for nutritional needs, particularly energy requirements and for growth.

FOOD + PREPARATION = EATING!
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Unless you are a guest somewhere, or have the luxury to dine out, the responsibility of the final chew/swallow/ingest process....

commonly (but not always I admit) falls onto the shoulders of the "Head of Household",

habitually, that being of the female gender.
I being of that gender, took it upon myself to resolve this dilemma.

Whether it is the slapping of two pieces of bread together

with the smearing of PB & J in the middle, or delicious culinary preparations

of Daube de Boeuf Provencal ...

EATING means W-O-R-K!

WORK means NO PLAY!

Who wants that?

Blah..Blah..
Blah.. Blah..
BLAH!

And then...a few days ago, I came a cross a post of a great friend Terri.
Her post blew all my years minutes of research, thoughts, plans and typing

(*with a big huff and a puff*) ~phewff~ out the window!

Upon finding Terri's post that day, the Blog-age-can gobbled up my lengthy,

precise dissertation in one big gulp! ...galumph..choke..Ahhhh!
My enthusiasm which kept my nose buried in books glued to the computer,

eyes scouring blurring with each word and pencils sharpened

fingers worn to stubs....was wasted!
Terri beat me to the answer in her straightforward forward family dilemma post.

Her answer was blatantly simple!

We eat because we are hungry and...

if we don't "we are crabby"!

Life's complicated questions are actually simple to answer.
Listen to your belly...your mind...and our heart!
The answer you seek will appear in no particular order...
It only depends on the question.