{"id":8360,"date":"2015-11-26T08:30:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T16:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=8360"},"modified":"2015-11-26T08:30:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T16:30:42","slug":"a-side-quest-achieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/26\/a-side-quest-achieved\/","title":{"rendered":"a side-quest achieved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, I&#8217;ve been making apple pie with Second Thanksgiving. I make it the day before, it&#8217;s an easy recipe, it&#8217;s good. Very straightforward.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m always left with apple peels, because I peel the apples. And I like apple peel, but not <em>that much<\/em> of it, so I&#8217;ve experimented a bunch of times with the leftover peels, trying to see what I could make. And it&#8217;s never been worth mentioning. I&#8217;ve tried toasting them, I&#8217;ve tried saut\u00e9ing them in brown sugar, I&#8217;ve tried a lot of stuff.<\/p>\n<p><em>This year I finally pulled it off.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2015-11\/peelings-managed.jpg\"><br \/><i>Peelings <b>Managed<\/b><\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Apple-peel tarts. One eaten; other four in the fridge for the morning. Surprisingly tart with softened peels. Recipe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flatten leftover crust dough on parchment paper, very thin. Cut into strips and lay a couple into each tart cup.\n<li>Get a long spiral of apple peel, and lay across bottom of cup. Add a few leftover apple pieces from the pie filling, and wind in the rest of the spiral.\n<li>Add pieces of leftover apple, again from the pie filling. It&#8217;s important that the apple and peel mingle, I think.\n<li>Put in oven with pie, after the initial higher-temperature 10 minutes are over. For me, this means as reducing the oven from 450F to 350F.\n<li>After 10 minutes, move to a second oven (or toaster oven) at 300F.\n<li>After 20 more minutes, add about 2 tablespoons apple cider. (<b>New and critical!<\/b>)\n<li>Allow to bake for 10-15 more minutes; judge it by eye, you want the cider to boil down a bit in the oven.<\/ul>\n<p>The peel came out soft and tart and delicious. The apple chunks (about half of it) retained their shape and were sweet and yummy. The crust strips add a third texture and also absorb candied cider flavour.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really hoping it holds up in the morning. Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Looking for the Grammy Awards Long List nominee post? <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/for-your-consideration\/\">Thank you for listening, and for your consideration<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, I&#8217;ve been making apple pie with Second Thanksgiving. I make it the day before, it&#8217;s an easy recipe, it&#8217;s good. Very straightforward. But I&#8217;m always left with apple peels, because I peel the apples. And I like apple peel, but not that much of it, so I&#8217;ve experimented a bunch of times with [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}