School is stressful.

I've stopped doing much other than working and sleeping.

This weekend is going to be a weekend to remember: I'm going to volunteer, tomorrow morning, and then I'm going to spend the entire day in the library. Sunday, I'm going to...spend the entire day in the library.

WOO.

Lab practical is coming up in a month, so I'm studying for that NOW (and for the next month, half an hour, every day), and then I have two major, grade-changing tests and three grade-changing papers. And one paper that doesn't make a huge difference, BUT WHATEVER.

I think "overwhelmed" is a good term. Luckily, our university counseling office offers free yoga classes, once a week, during the month of October (notoriously hellish).

Keeping afloat.

Sort of.


Recipes by a Unicorn

BAKED APPLE A LA MODE

Session One
Need
Baking apple (I used honeycrisp)
Sugar
Cinnamon
Peeler
Knife
Metal spoon
Glass baking dish
Do
Preheat oven to 300F
Peel apple, hollow out (with knife and spoon--so it's a bowl)
Combine cinnamon and sugar, add to inside and outside of apple
Pop that sucker in the glass baking dish and put it in the oven for 30-45min.
Wait till there are about ten minutes left baking the apple, then follow Session Two

Session Two
Need
Sugar
Butter
Whipping cream
Vanilla ice cream
Walnuts
Whisk
Medium sauce pan
Do
Heat maybe 1-1.5C of sugar in a saucepan--should melt and boil (medium heat is effective)
Once it's boiling, add 6T butter
Whisk that sucker till its all combined, then remove from heat
Add whipping cream till it looks like caramel
Cool
Remove apple from oven, pop on plate
Scoop ice cream and add to apple bowl
Add caramel
Add nuts


You're welcome, autumn lovers.


[EDIT]

Wait till it's cooked to peel the apple! It cooks into a softer, juicier fruit.

Yeah I know how you feel about it. I don't quite think that's how things SHOULD be, but I'm beginning to accept it for for things are.
» middaymoon on 2012-10-22 02:44:39

My dad used to put cinnamon on apples and microwave them for me when I was younger. I imagine the taste is similar to this, but less elaborate and maybe less crispy on the edges.
» randomjunk on 2012-10-23 01:08:15

I'm gonna make that baked apple pie a la mode, take a picture, and post that sucker to Pinterest!

Okay, not the Pinterest part. I'm gonna make that baked apple pie a la mode and eat it!
» Amelie on 2012-10-23 02:02:48

yum!
I've never been much of a cooking/baking person. But since I've moved into my apartment, I've actually *written down* some recipes I've seen in a cookbook here or there at work (library!).
I might, *maybe*, one day attempt one. So far it's just pie recipes. If I can find them.
» invisible on 2012-10-24 07:46:40

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