[Photo: Yummy Local] Pumpkin pie: fall standard. Apple pie: ditto. So why not apple pumpkin pie? Alice Summers from the food blog YummyLocal revives a recipe from an Emeril Lagasse Thanksgiving pie contest nearly ten years ago. Cinnamon-stewed apples form the pie's first layer, which gets smothered in a sweet pumpkin filling. It gets you thinking about pie's fall potential. Pumpkin-pecan? Pecan-cranberry? So many possibilities... Related Cook's Illustrated's Pumpkin Pie Crochet Your Own Pie Beret Deep Fried Pumpkin Pie Makes My Stomach Rumble with Glee...
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[Flickr: shiokuma] Since the autumn transition is now official, I’m taking a seasonal approach to my liquor cabinet. The white booze, like the white shoes, has been packed away until the warm months roll around again. OK, that’s not entirely true. Good gin is a year-round pleasure, and sometimes you need a daiquiri or two during the winter to remind you that summer does indeed exist. But now that the nights are cooler and the leaves are starting to change, I’m looking at aged spirits with renewed enthusiasm, and one style of spirit in particular: Calvados. In today’s Washington Post, drink columnist Jason Wilson touches on a theme he started last fall: the often-overlooked apple brandy from Normandy. He...
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Buster Benson of one-man company Enjoymentland launched his iPhone app Locavore 1.0 earlier this year and has already come out with a second version. In his own words, Locavore 1.0 "told you what’s in season, what’s coming into season soon, and where nearby farmers' markets are located,” while 2.0 “does all of that and also lets you be social about it.” As the app loads, the screen reads, “now rolling up to the market,” which I found pretty cute. The screen then fills with a more or less accurate list of fruits and veggies in season, accompanied by confusing but pretty rainbow-colored pie chart symbols. Then there's the tab that “lets you be social about it,” where you can read...
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How to know you’re too sauced to drive after your holiday party: use the iBreath, an attachment for your iPod or iPhone that measures your blood alcohol content. It also doubles as an iPod FM transmitter. [via Boing Boing]...
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What's geeky? Making an apple pie with an Apple logo. What's geekier? Cutting the latticed logo with a 45-watt carbon-dioxide laser. Good job, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories! [via Neatorama] Related Hot Dog Bun Grilling Jig Photo of the Day: Death Star Melon How to Make Edible Googly Eyes for Cupcakes, Cookies, Etc....
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Atkins is a misleading name for a farm that makes fried rings of dough, covered in sugar and cinnamon. Located in Amherst, Massachusetts, part of the idyllic motherland of apple orchards, Atkins Farms makes the classic cider doughnut. The kind you want in your mouth now, and for every autumn forever. When my friend sent me a three-dozen box of them for my birthday this week (she was a Smithie, and has fond memories visiting the nearby farm), I couldn't be happier. "That's a lot of doughnuts," Serious Eaters said as they walked by, already weighed down by pumpkin cakes, pumpkin cookies, pastries, and chocolates (we had two birthdays in the office this week). Though a surplus of cider...
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