we’ve been lazy starting our fall festivities this year … between being gone the first half of last week and then both going back to work for the end, we just hadn’t gotten around to it. this may have something to do with why i’ve been craving good ol’ fashioned fried scones lately. mostly because when i was a kid, it was always about this time a year that we would go buy piping hot fresh ones smothered in honey butter and eat them in front of huge bonfires with some warm cider. where we found these places selling piping hot scones and warm cider that had oversized bonfires somewhere near, i really don’t know but i seem to somehow still have vivid memories of this happening. anyway, yesterday i made fresh scones, keeping with our lazy trend, with frozen roll dough and oil heated to 375 degrees. i also mixed up some honey butter and added bits of cinnamon and nutmeg in order to add a bit of extra cozy. they were obviously good due to the fact camden ate four … yes four. and because i felt we were cheating ourselves out of a properly celebrated autumn, we made time to put up our halloween decorations and then have a spooky date night in, sipping hot chocolate and watching wait until dark. scones, halloween decor, hot chocolate, and classic audrey … how could you get more fall than that?

wednesday has become the perfect day for us to have breakfast in bed, since after all, wednesday is the day i don’t go into work until twelve and camden tends to usually have this day off, at least as of late he does. and because camden, just this week, got a promotion at work, i stopped by our favorite breakfast bakery, tulie, on my way home tuesday afternoon and picked up some key lime mini pies (camden’s favorite) to have wednesday morning in celebration of all his hard work. i also got an almond croissant knowing that the key lime pie wouldn’t be enough to fill him up (man, can that man eat!). it was so nice, relaxing, and the perfect time to recuperate before the rest of the work week … almost a mini weekend, in fact. we’re thinking of continuing our weekly bed and breakfast, making a sort of wednesday tradition out of the whole thing. kramer obviously votes yes!

this is my all time very favorite apple pie. not just because my mom would make it when i was growing up as a kid, but because i honestly believe it is the very best. i have, to this day, not tasted a better pie and better yet, as far as pies go, this one is extremely simple, easy, and relatively quick to make. i spent saturday afternoon cooking up this one and we ate about half of it before camden left with his dad camping sunday morning. i’ve included the recipe below so now you”ll have to go and promise to make it!



for my very favorite apple pie you will need...

2 cups + 3 tablespoon flour
2/3 cups shortening
1 and 1/4 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons cold water
5 large granny smith apples
1 cup of sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
dash nutmeg
1 pie dish

for the crust

preheat the oven to 400 degrees. cut together 2 cups of the flour, shortening, and 1 teaspoon of the salt. once combined, mix in the water until dough sticks together nicely … not too wet and not too dry. split dough in half and roll out two round sections, one for the top and one for the bottom. place one of the layers into the pie dish.

for the filling

slice all the apples into small thin wedges (an apple peeler works just amazingly) and place the apples into a large mixing bowl. add sugar, cinnamon, 3 tablespoons of flour, 1/4 teaspoon of salt, and nutmeg. gently mix with a wooden spoon until everything is evenly combined. pour the apple mixture into the pie dish and cover with the top layer of pie crust dough. seal the edges together with the prongs of the fork and make a few slits in the top of the crust to ventilate. cover just the crust’s edges with tinfoil and bake for 30 minutes. take off the tinfoil and bake for 15 minutes more. remove the pie from the oven, let cool, serve, and enjoy!

this weekend was camden’s first sunday at work since his promotion, which, might i add, completly blows. it’s always nice to have at least one of the weekend days off together … anyway, like i said, it was camden’s first sunday back at work which made my previous days farmer’s market finds an easy and perfect choice, especially seeing how our brunch had to be done and over before eleven o’clock … suppose i should really be calling this one breakfast anyhow… be that as it may, we had plain yogurt slightly sweetened by the smallest bit of honey, topped with large granola clusters and the sweetest blackberries i ever did taste. simple but sweet … just the way i like it … the end.

p.s. sorry for the slower posting schedule this week … i’ve caught a terrible cold and have been taking things a bit slower than usual … thanks for understanding! 

how about a little weekend brunch because let’s be honest, it’s been a very long time since we’ve had any weekend brunch worthy of note. also, as long as we are being honest we actually had more of a brunch for dinner today than an actual brunch. we were out with friends late last night, until around three in the morning actually, and ended up sleeping until eleven a.m. when kramer finally decided it was time for us all to get up. we spent the entire day in our pajamas in between sleep and awake and had pizza during actual brunch time. i finally got around to making scones this evening around seven o’clock and we ended up eating them for dinner. i made orange poppyseed scones and they were seriously good, took me back to england they did. we devoured them while they were still warm with a bit of butter and strawberry jam smothered in their middles. i found this recipe here, definitely a scone worth making.