OT: Bored, so I made an apple crisp. Just took it

Yes, it required brown sugar, but the recipe is very easy. So pick up 2 pounds!

My husband and daughter went apple picking over a week ago and got macintoshes which I love when they are fresh! And I like their tartness. Usually I don't use them for baking, but when they're fresh, they hold up.

Here's my recipe

Ingredients
6 apples - peeled, cored, and sliced
2 tablespoons white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup old-fashioned oats
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup cold butter

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Toss apples with white sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon in a medium bowl to coat; pour into a 9-inch square baking dish.
Mix brown sugar, oats, flour, and 1 teaspoon cinnamon in a separate bowl. Use a pastry cutter or 2 forks to mash cold butter into the oats mixture until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs; spread over the apples to the edges of the baking dish. Pat the topping gently until even.
Bake in preheated oven until golden brown and sides are bubbling, about 40 minutes.

I love spice cake!!!! It's a comfort food.

How bad is the smoke still? How is it there with the fires?

I've gained weight as well during this pandemic. Lack of exercise, working from home, and I'm boredom eating which I've never done!

Apple Betty or Apple Brown Betty dates back to Colonial days. However, according to the Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink, it was first mentioned in print in 1864.

A Brown Betty can be made with pears or berries, but is most frequently made with apples. Unlike other apple desserts, sweetened crumbs are placed in layers between the fruit and it is served with lemon sauce or whipped cream, which gives the dessert more of a pudding texture versus a pie filling. That's why Apple Brown Betty can also be called apple pudding. It was a favorite dessert during Ronald Reagan's time in the White House.

Apple Cobbler is a dessert where baked apples are topped with a crust made of biscuit dough. Apple cobblers come in a variety of styles, including the following:

Apple Slump is an apple cobbler that is flipped upside-down after coming out of the oven so the fruit that cooked at the bottom of the pan is now on top of biscuits and 'slumps' down into the dish.

Apple Grunt is an apple cobbler cooked on the stove.

Apple Pandowdy is an old recipe, first printed in a cookbook in 1886, cobbler which uses broken pie crust instead of biscuit dough.

Apple Crisp is a relatively new apple dessert first mentioned in a 1924 cookbook. According to Canadian Living, "A crisp is a baked fruit dessert topped with a crisp and crunchy layer of ingredients. The topping may include a proportion of sugar, butter, oats, nuts, flour and a spice such as cinnamon, tossed together to gain a somewhat granular look. The dessert is baked just until the topping is crisp and golden."

Apple Crumble is synonymous with Apple Crisp in the U.K. and Australia, but in Canada and the U.S., it is a slightly different dish. Like an apple crisp, an apple crumble is a baked fruit dessert with a layer of topping. But unlike the crisp, the crumble topping rarely includes oats or nuts. Instead, a crumble's topping is more like streusel, made with flour, sugar and butter. According to Canadian Living, "The topping is generally more clumpy than a crisp topping, but not as clumpy as a cobbler topping."

It's okay to complain. And yes, there are people who do have it worse, but still, it's also affecting you and your family. But I know what you mean. Do they know how much longer it's going to last?

Lactose intolerant and I love Haagan Dazs ice cream. Tried those lactose-free ice creams, and they taste terrible and have a ton of sugar and artificial ingredients.