Lemon Supreme Pie

Happy Belated Thanksgiving! I hope your Thanksgiving was full of happiness, friends, family, and food. Mine was filled with three of the four. We were stuck here at home for Thanksgiving which meant we weren't able to celebrate with any of our family, due to the fact that they don't live anywhere near us and I wasn't allowed to leave the region. Seriously. So, instead we celebrated with two couples from our ward. It was kind of a Thanksgiving potluck, where we were instructed to bring the rolls, dessert, and ice cream. This may be silly of me, but usually ice cream falls under the dessert category in my mind, so I am still pondering why ice cream was such a vital part of Thanksgiving that it had to be mentioned specifically. While talking about this with EC he said "Don't you always have ice cream at Thanksgiving? My family always does." Silly me, I was under the impression that you ate pie for dessert at Thanksgiving, not ice cream. Anyway, I digress.

So, we took my mom's Award Winning Rolls, cheapo WinCo ice cream, and this Lemon Supreme Pie. The pie is also a recipe from my mom and contains a layer of a lemon-y cream cheese base and then a lemon pudding type filling. I think I used too much cornstarch though, because my lemon filling cracked, sigh.

We had a good time and ate a lot of good food. However, without the family there it didn't quite feel like Thanksgiving to me, so hopefully next year we will be able to talk them into coming up here. Until then, only 26 more days till we fly home for Christmas!

Apples - 55 Pounds to be Exact

Last weekend EC and I went to a somewhat local orchard to pick apples. At $0.25 a pound, it was too good of a deal to resist. We may have, however, gone a little overboard in our picking. We ended up with 55 pounds of apples and a gallon of apple cider (which we pressed ourselves, I know, be impressed).
Right now I am sure you are thinking - 55 POUNDS OF APPLES, WHAT DOES ONE DO WITH SO MUCH APPLES? Thank you for asking, I will tell you. One cans 21 quarts of apple pie filling.
So now you are thinking, that is a lot of apple pie filling, Jenni, you will have to eat 1.75 pies a month if it is for a year supply. Well, HA, jokes on you! I have already given away two quarts of it, so I will only have to eat 1.58333333 pies a month. Except for the fact that we still had leftover apples, so I am also eating plain apples.And apple turnovers, but that is a post for another day. For now, if anyone knows anyone who needs an apple pie, let me know, and maybe I can help you out.