My husband and son are huge fans of apple pie. Our autumn season used to includ pie-baking, but I've fallen out of the habit in the last five years or so. Pie is one of my favorite foods as well, but I'm intimidated by making my own crust and ashamed that I use store-bought (although that doesn't stop me from using it or scarfing it all down!).
I had an abundance of apples this month because I kept buying them (plus, we went apple picking) and not eating them. A sure fire way to use the apples and guarantee they'll be consumed is to bake them in a pie, so I made two tonight: Martha Stewart's Classic Greenmarket Apple Pie (this is a pretty close Martha Stewart recipe, and this is the exact recipe on someone's blog) and a Rustic Apple Tart.
I must be a little rusty with my pie-baking skills because I didn't fill it with enough apples, in my opinion. I used a combination of Fuji, Gala, Stayman, and Honeycrisp (I think ... I kinda lost track of the different varieties I bought) for the pie, and Gala and Honeycrisp for the tart.
They weren't my best pies but they were certainly tasty! I still have some apples left so I'm sure I'll be doing more baking in the very near future, much to my husband's delight.
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