{"id":3100,"date":"2012-08-17T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2016-09-20T20:58:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T01:58:23","slug":"yummy-stuff-fingerless-hand-pies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3100","title":{"rendered":"Yummy Stuff: (Fingerless) Hand Pies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0Dear Sweet Stuff,<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0You are doing me in daily. I crave you, then feel physically ill after consuming you. You know, you give me headaches and mood swings. I will be breaking up with you. Right after I eat some of these.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Yours truly, Lauren<\/em><\/p>\n

True story. I have a serious sweet tooth. Something I’ve “discussed” with a few of you. It always starts during pregnancy, then worsens once I deliver and start breastfeeding. A year later, I am still the primary source of nutrition for a human being who grows larger and larger every day. Who claps and waves and smiles and climbs and runs and says “Hiiiiii-ahh!” like a Southerner. All my kids are apparently Southern until they are about 20 months old. Then they become Midwesterners in their speech. But that’s a different story. The sugar. It’s most craved in the form of baked goods– you know, the kind with lots of bad-for-you white flour and white sugar and butter and that kind of bad goodness. And I’m not struggling with my weight, so it’s a funny thing. The sugar affects me in a way I assume drug addicts are affected. In order to feel normal, I eat something sugary. Then, after feeling normal for a couple of hours, I crash and feel horrible. Hungover. Headache-y and lethargic and sometimes even disoriented. If I have some more, I feel better briefly. I really feel that it is the sugar doing this to me. So. I need to cut waaaaaaaaaay back. Which\u00a0also\u00a0<\/em>evidently means I need to cut way back on Pinterest and food blogs because\u00a0geez\u00a0<\/em>people with the pinning and blogging about desserts all the time!<\/p>\n

I found this recipe<\/a> via Pinterest and had to try it because we had all the ingredients and I needed to get rid of a few apples AND I wanted to try my hand at homemade crust-making. It was a success! And with a few tweaks, I managed to reduce the sugar (though don’t let that fool you– these are still totally bad for you in a butter-and-white-flour kind of way) and they turned out amazing.<\/p>\n

Plus, they are called “hand pies” and when I told Oliver what I was making, he climbed up on the stool in the kitchen to watch intently, quietly, before stating “If these are hand pies, then where are the fingers?” To which I responded, “You are absolutely right, my boy! These are fingerless<\/em> hand pies!”<\/p>\n

I don’t mean to badmouth sugar. I’m sure in moderation everything is fine. Plus, these have sharp cheddar cheese baked into the crust and man, if you have never paired cheddar and apple, you are missing out on something big. And with Fall right around the corner, I suspect people will have an abundance of apples and<\/em> visitors. These pies took a little bit of time, but I made both the crust and the filling one day ahead, so all I had to do the day of was assemble them.<\/p>\n

Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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