Vieve's Place...Enjoy Your Visit
Today I went to Darth's soccer game (he scored again, they won again!) and afterwards we all dinner together. After dinner, Epifanio and I were chilling at the table (with my mouth surgery last month, I take a very very long time to eat right now haha) and he started to hand me apples. My sis recorded it, and I think it's just about the cutest thing I have seen.
I just loved it so much, what a tiny cutie.
Ok I made a super easy dessert tonight, everyone. Here it is:
5 (largeish) apples, washed, sliced
1 package Pillsbury refrigerated sugar cookie dough, pre-rolled
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
3 tablespoons cinnamon
2 tablespoon butter
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees, pretty easy. Ok, slice your apples, and then throw them into a 9x13 pan. Slice/break the butter into chunks, and throw them around the apples. Ok, don’t throw. Gently place them in the pan, randomly. Pour the brown sugar on top of the apples. In another bowl, combine the sugar and cinnamon, and then roll the sugar cookie balls in the concoction. Then, flatten the cookie dough a little bit, and place them on top of the apples. Bake for about 15 minutes, or until the cookies are baked. Serve with ice cream, it’s way more delicious that way. Enjoy!
Last night, Chelle and I got together to yet again make some caramel apples, candy-cane popcorn and dipped Oreos. It was going to be a great night. We started off by making the popcorn – and we started by smashing up the candy canes:
Then after that, we got started on the apples. While Chelle was making the popcorn, I washed and scrubbed the apples. I had taken the caramel (a 5-lb block, mind you) out of the box and set it on the counter. I turned the heat on the pot, then turned to get the caramel and put it in the pot. The caramel had gotten stuck to the counter! I was trying so hard to pry it off with no luck. Chelle came over to help me, and the two of us were pulling it off with all of our might, and POP! it came off the counter!
…and landed directly onto my big toe. Ouch!
Luckily I had the presence of mind to take a picture of my toe right afterwards. It wasn’t too horrible right after it happened, which is when this was taken. We kept going with the caramel apples, because I wasn’t going to stop making these just because my foot hurt. We had an issue with the caramel scorching in the pot, but we remedied that by getting a new pot, etc. We got done dipping all the apples, and by that time, my foot was killing me! So we take a look at it, and it’s now like, purple, and considerably bigger and just looking generally gross. I usually don’t ever go to the doctor, but we decided to make an exception.
Chelle drove me to Insta-Care, and we got an exam. My blood pressure was taken, my pulse, etc. The nurse (who I didn’t really care for, she was sorta bratty) asked me if I was nervous, because my pulse was like, 100-something and I replied that I must have been, but I don’t know why. After waiting a while, the nurse came in to take me to X-Rays.
After the X-Rays (which were painful!) they brought me back, and I waited again for the doctor to come in with the diagnosis.
Broken.
My poor big toe.
The doctor told us he couldn’t do anything for it, just elevate, ice and ibuprofen, and sent us on our merry way. We went back to Chelle’s and finished the apples (they looked fabulous, but I didn’t get a picture), iced my foot, took some pills, and called it a night.
Today it still hurts, of course, so I’m walking gingerly and taking my pills for it. I wore by biggest, loosest pair of shoes today to alleviate some of the pain, and it’s not too bad, but it still feels best to be shoeless, which I mostly am on that foot. I have a bandage over it, to make sure the cut doesn’t get anything on it, but that’s mostly it.
What a night it was! I’m so glad we made the apples, but man, the elements sure were against us doing them. Next time, once we start getting signs like that again…I think I’ll play it safe and stop!
This evening, Chelle and I took some time to make some caramel apples. We all remember last time I made caramel apples (with mostly disastrous results), so this time, I was hoping that maybe time and a little distance had made me a little better. Well good news, I was right, it did. I had a clearer mind about things, and I approached them with a different attitude, which I think helped a lot. We had our caramel to dip in, we had our chocolates, and we had our dipping candies – we were ready.
We melted down the caramel, and once it was ready, we got to working on the apples. It’s a little tricky to get the apples and caramel to make friends with each other, but I think we did a good job. We dipped a bunch, waited for them to cool down enough to dip in chocolate, and kept the cycle going. We had Butterfingers dipped ones, Oreo dipped ones, coconut…so many delish things. I was nervous the whole time we were making them, just because of how unsure of how well I’d do. I just assumed it’d be like last time, when I just sucked it up in general. But as the evening went on, I could see that we were doing good work. Instead of being like my class and wrapping up all the apples as soon as we were done, we decided to wait overnight, to make sure the apples were completely set. So I left them in Chelle’s house, waiting to see them the next day.
When we went over there the next day and looked at them, I was so excited by how great they looked! They all looked so good, and not at all as horrible as I had previously imagined. Here are a couple:
See how good they look! I was so pleased. We had bought these cutie little bags to put them in, to make them super presentable to people, because that’s how we roll, so this is what they look like in the bags:
Even more adorable.
I had so much fun, and I look forward to our next baking (dipping?) adventure that we’ll have soon. Now, my only issue is…who do I give these to? *wink*
