ApfelSrtudel

I don't know if its the pregnancy talking but I have this need to bake. I rather bake any day of the week than cook food. Baking is so much fun and it makes your kitchen smell sooo good! This week's recipe is the easiest thing I can come up with: ApfelStrudel.

I have to make a discourse here. I am, by no means, a good cook or baker. I have never really cooked and I tend to burn things and make things explode. But like I said it must be the fact that I will be mom and cooking is necessary. So you all will be witnesses of this apfelstrudel, I mean you can't go wrong with sugar and butter, right?

Here is what I used for TWO apfelstrudel, they are small tho.


A package of pie crust
I sliced two honey crisp apples really thin. Stick with only one or one and a half
Raisins
Butter, a little to grease the baking sheet and some to put inside the apfelstrudel

Sugar to taste
Cinnamon to taste
One egg to glaze it
My mom puts some nuts but I didn't have any.

Alright, butter the tray, lay the pie crust and start putting a layer of apples, raisins, a little of butter, sugar and cinnamon. Do this twice, then fold it like you are swaddling a baby *wink* glaze some of the egg on top of it so it burns nice and it gives a nice finish touch. With a fork poke it so the hot air will go inside and cook the apples and raisins, finish with sparkling some sugar. Bake it for around 30 minutes at 350. I did it like this so it would cook nicely instead of just burning the pie.

Holy smokes, it is good! The only thing I would try to fix next time is the dough tends to be a little dry and crumbly I prefer mine more moist. Maybe I just mine from scratch. 

Starting from the beginning

This is mainly for my own entertainment. Putting on thoughts on "paper" always helps me to figure out a path in my life. So let us start from the beginning. I married this really wonderful guy that works his butt off to provide for me and our kitties. We met in college 6 years ago and have been married for 2. We started living in Arizona for 5 years, then moved to Fort Collins, Colorado and now we are in Cheyenne Wyoming. We have recently bought a house since we are expecting our first baby in February. I am currently employed full time and with no time for my house and my sanity. My hubby works about 60 hours a week so that leaves us with no time for ourselves and our sanity. We do try to make time for our relationship but sometimes it involves going to the groceries really late at night. So it is not that romantic but still fun because I love him. 

When the baby arrives I would really love to stay home and take care of my baby for the first year, but if I see that the bills are killing us I probably go back after 6 months and work part time. This decision brings A LOT of worries, "how are we going to pay the bills?, are we gonna make it?, what if we can't? should we sell one car?, babies are expensive!" I figured that if I can bring home at least $500 a month we could easily make it through. So I started looking into options to make money from home. There is a lot of selling this, that and the other but I never saw myself as that kind of person. Even though I work selling stuff and I must admit I am pretty good at it, I just don't see myself making a living out of selling the nowadays novelties. 

I always saw myself as my own boss, taking care of business, you know? I thought about starting my own international business by either exporting goods from Mexico or doing translations or even selling the novelties. So I guess this is what this blog will take you and me, a trip into what a new mom will do to help her hubby pay the bills and try to survive with a newborn. 

Until then...