Fall Food

We usually like to go apple picking in the fall, but this fall has been extraordinarily busy, so on Saturday I settled for the apple stand at the Arlington Farmers' Market. By the end of the day, these beauties had become this fall's batch of applesauce and the first apple pie of autumn. Mmm... We ate it with chili and Dawn and Brian while we watched the Redskins lose. At least the pie was tasty.

(Oh, and a new ww pie crust recipe, this time a real one from my Aunt Kathy, who is knowledgable in things like whole wheat crusts and apple pie. Waaaaaay better than my last try...and almost as easy as buying the frozen kind at Safeway!)

It was a long, lovely weekend, and until about noon on Monday we reveled in the long-weekendness of it (fall is delighful for a lot of reasons, and one of them is the regular sprinkling of federal holidays). By Monday afternoon, we started thinking of other things, like homework...work...Jason's meeting in the Netherlands, etc. But it was gooood while it lasted.