A Girl's Gotta Eat!

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Mike and I first tried this dish long before I ever thought about doing a food blog. When I realized I had not yet shared it on my blog, I decided we just had to make it again, if not for ourselves, for those out in the world who had never tried such tastiness. We originally found the recipe in an issue of EveryDay with Rachael Ray, and have left a sticky note on the page so we always have quick-and-easy access to it. When Wednesday rolled around this week, Mike was supposed to have his flag football tournament. The weather had another idea, and after raining for about 36 hours straight, they decided to postpone for a drier time. Because of this, I needed some easy to shop for and make (I don’t normally cook on football nights), and I wanted something warm and comforting after have a very soggy couple of days.   We do everything by the book on this one, although we rarely use the amount of horseradish called for in the recipe, opting instead to add plenty of extra. And coo...

In an effort to raise money for United Way, my company decided to have a bake sale and cake/pie auction two days ago. As we had family arriving in town that night, and Mike had a flag football game, I opted to help out by baking a pie for the auction instead of needing to bag up individual servings for the bake sale. I found a recipe that looked tasty, but relatively easy, with high ratings on food.com . My only hope was that it would raise at least $15 in the auction... Despite the fact that I misread the recipe and ended up staying up way past my bedtime to get it finished, it was, indeed, quite easy to put together. Even better, I'm happy to report it raised $40 in the auction! Eager to try it for myself, I made another this morning to take to my parents' house for family to try. All-in-all, I would say it got pretty good reviews. I did cheat and use a store-bought pie pastry, but we can't all be Betty Crocker...My brother-in-law who is in love with my normal apple p...