Me Oh My...Simple Apple Pie!

Desserts were never a featured part of my mom's menu when we were growing up.  At Thanksgiving and Christmas she woud prepare sweet potato pies and nutty finger cookies and once and a while a really good pound cake (my dad's favorite).  When we had apple pie it was a frozen one from the A&P (I remember taking one out of the oven and dropping it in the floor).  So, like my mom, desserts are not my speciality...except for apple pie.  When Wayne and I were newly weds we had wonderful back door neighbors, Tom and Caroline.  We ate together frequently and often Caroline would prepare a delicious apple pie.  One fall we drove to the mountains in Virginia and picked our own apples and it was then that I learned from Caroline just how simple it is to make an apple pie.
This past October, while visiting with my children and grandchildren in Maryland, I took the grandchildren apple picking.  The trees were full of apples and in no time we had all filled our bags with crispy, sweet, tart, beautiful apples.  When we got back to the house we all decided to make apple pie.  One of the most difficult steps in making a pie is peeling the apples.  But Amanda has one of those fantastic apple peelers that makes the task simple and really a fun task for the kids!(http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/old-fashioned-apple-peeler-and-corer/ )  The other difficult part, at least for me, is making the crust...but thanks to Pillsbury, that is no longer true!  So, once we had taken the crust out of the box and had it in the pie pan, the children filled the pie shell with the apple mixture.  We cut the second pie crust in strips and created a woven top.  Soon the pie was in the oven and that wonderful aroma of apple pie filled the house...a delicious dessert and wonderful memory!

Ingredients

8 medium Granny Smith apples or 6 large, peeled, cored and sliced
3/4 cup white sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup flour
1/2 tsp nutmeg
2 tsp cinnamon
1 box of Pillsbury Pie Crusts

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

1.  Follow direction for crust, when the bottom crust is in the pan sprinke white sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg over the bottom.
2. Combine apples, sugars, flour, nutmeg and cinnamon
3.  Fill pie shell with apple mixture
4.  Use the second pie crust to top the pie (You can slice in strips and make woven top or just place on top, crimp edges and make slits for steam to escape).
5. Bake for 1 hour.  Serve hot from the oven with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.