two minutes late

Despite the fact that since I got up at 11:45, and have since watched a bad 80s movie starring Michael J. Fox, an episode of chopped and two episodes of Made (well, one and I'm on the second,) today has been pretty productive.

I decided, when Nate found out he had to work, I would try and make Apple Chips, instead of just staring at the television! I whipped out all my tools and apples and got started:

My little apple corer is hilarious, and prompted me to take more pictures than I normally would. I find this one is especially hilarious...

He is a shady character!

Got all the apples cored, and one of them sliced using the thinnest setting on the mandoline.

I put the slices down on some aluminum foil and covered some with cinnamon sugar and some with pumpkin pie spice, and then baked them at as close to 200 as I could get the oven (a little background story: our oven bakes about 100 degrees hotter than it says on the dial. And the lowest temp on the dial is 170, so I had to turn it to somewhere between the lowest setting and off. And then check in the thermometer we have hanging inside. It's a hassle.)

The first batch was uhm...interesting? I really like the cinnamon sugar ones (not so much the pumpkin pie spice ones,) but the apples stuck horribly to the aluminum foil. Not to mention, they're less chip-like and more fruit leather-like in texture. I think this might be because I took them out too early. So I made a smaller batch and sprayed the aluminum foil this time, and I'll try and flip them after an hour and leave them in for closer to two hours.

I was going to make roasted chick peas, also, but my chickpeas leftover from making hummus were kind of...fermenting in their own juices, so I just had to throw them out. 

We're hanging out with Nate's cousin and his girlfriend who are in town for the weekend either tonight or tomorrow morning. This whole 'hanging out with people' in the city we now live is is kind of cool. I think I like it.

-C