Peter’s apples

October 2, 2009

Family Life

Oh, mama. Dipped those tangy honeycrisps in brown sugar and fried ‘em in butter. They came out ‘candied’ and now I have to go to the store for vanilla ice cream!
Thanks for the suggestion, Peter!

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The house smells good, too.

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15 Responses to “Peter’s apples”

  1. Peter Says:
    2. October 2009 at 6:27 pm

    Stick with me, kid. I’ll keep you in lollypops. Seriously, some time back I was buying raisins for Linda Lou’s oatmeal raisin cookies and next to them was a can of fried apples, actually several cans. I bought them on a whim, partially because back then we still had a few nickels to rub together, unlike today. Anyhow, they were good but expensive. Some years later I thought of them, looked ‘em up on the intertubez and tried cooking them myself. You can fry any kind of apples, tart apples just like that. Sweet apples need to be shaken in a plastic baggie with lemon juice, then coated in the brown sugar.

    If my back would let me stand up for more than a few minutes at a time I’d start a business with some of that stimulating Obama stimulus money. Chez Peter, a limited menu cafe featuring just a few meals. Better yet, a little place outside a halfway wealthy bedroom community featuring a few good suppers to go. Simple, tasty and complete meals, order ‘em in the morning and pick ‘em up on the way home from work.

    They wouldn’t even have to be fancy meals, either. Monday, Pot roast, vegetables and hot rolls, plus dessert, or pork chops, mashed potatoes and gravy plus peas or green beans and dessert. Tuesdays Fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, plus dessert or beef stew plus cornbread and dessert, etc.

    Sort of like Marie Callender’s only fresh. I bet someone could make a nice living that way.

    • pam Says:
      3. October 2009 at 8:24 am

      Thanks for the tip about the lemon juice!

      The whole Chez Peter concept is thought out pretty thoroughly. I think it would be a hit; simpler is better and if the food is good… they will come. Could you patent the idea? I have no idea, just wondering out loud.

  2. Mrs. Who Says:
    2. October 2009 at 6:31 pm

    Pam…how can you stay in Florida knowing those delicious foods are in Texas? Peter…I love you man!

  3. Da Goddess Says:
    3. October 2009 at 12:02 am

    Oh my God, if I weren’t already sugared out, I’d be wanting this something bad.

  4. diamond dave Says:
    3. October 2009 at 11:40 am

    *drool*

  5. patti Says:
    3. October 2009 at 2:45 pm

    Get thee behind me with your sugary temptations :devil:

  6. Peter Says:
    3. October 2009 at 10:58 pm

    That’s the problem, Patti. Too many sugary temptations lead to too much behind!

    Although sugar is only eighteen calories per teaspoon. Apples are good for you. And we use just enough butter to make the glaze work so, really, this isn’t the worst dessert you could think of.

  7. Peter Says:
    3. October 2009 at 11:12 pm

    And Pam, I think up great ideas like a pothead in a late night party. Lots of good ideas but I can never bemember them in the morning!

    There are a few upper middle class subdivisions on the road I take to get to my doctor’s offices. There are several little gas station/ few store places, almost big enough to be strip malls but not quite, you know what I mean. In one of them there is a laundry dry cleaners with a couple of as yet empty stores. Since folks are already stopping for dry cleaning and gas…

    If I had, the money, the ability to stand for the hours cooking all that would take, and the ambition to do it…

    I’m pretty sure I’d be lifting Pioneer Woman’s recipes right and left, too. Filing off the serial numbers, painting ‘em blue so nobody’d know they’re hers, right? Or, since it’s likely they’re all computer literate in those subdivisions, could I have one plain old recipe every day and a more expensive one marked Pioneer Woman’s onion blue cheese sauce with steak or suchlike?

    Ah, Hell, somebody do this and let me run the advertising, that I can sit down and do!

    • pam Says:
      4. October 2009 at 9:08 am

      I think it’d be a hit. Why is there nothing like that? Why does everyone adhere to the ‘model’? Because it works, I guess… but one day… one day there will be a Peter’s.

      Oh, and not everyone has seen Pioneer Woman’s recipes. I haven’t. ;)

  8. Kim @ What's That Smell? Says:
    4. October 2009 at 2:52 pm

    Those look and sound sooooo good.

    Are there any left, I think I can be to Florida in about 14 hours or so…?

    • pam Says:
      5. October 2009 at 8:20 am

      They are reallllly good. I think I went overboard on the butter, though. It’s so simple yet sooo good… and I had no vanilla ice cream to eat with them… so I have to do some more, of course.