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Ya, I like apple pie. My wife makes a yummy apple pie. She makes all kinds of deserts that I like but apple would be on top of the list. Rubarb custard is another favourite.
I like Pecan, Apple, Peach, Cherry, etc., etc. You get the idea. My problem is once started I can't stop with just one slice. I can more easily resist the first piece. Once I give in, I'm a goner.
Sometimes the most simple, uncomplicated things are the most enjoyable. Somewhere in my archive of recipe's there is an older one for a basic apple pie, intended to be used with all natural ingredients, nothing too artificial. Add in some fresh Granny Smith apples and you've got a mouth puckering formula that's a sure fire diet breaker!
Not much can replace a missing loved one who might also enjoy a good dessert though.........
My beloved Grand-Mom used to cook everything on an old cast iron wood-burning 'cookstove'. (She didn't have electricity in her home, until 1961!)
I can still see her standing beside that cookstove, taking out one (or two) of her pies.
Heaven!!!!!!!!!
The mention of strawberry-rhubarb pie gives me that flashback!
My Grand-Mom used to make the BEST pies!!!
Heck, anything she cooked, was 'the best'!!!!! She could put an 'over easy egg' in front of me, and it was 'the best'!!!
Oh, how I long for the "Good Ole Days", on her farm!
And my wife's Mom. . . . wow!!!!! That little ole Kentucky born/raised woman made one of the absolute best chocolate pies that I've ever stuck into my pie-hole!!!!!
I do believe I'm becoming a sentimental old fool. (Or is that just 'an old fool'?? Ha!)