My Aunt Anne makes a mean apple pie, I mean, it will not steal your lunch money but it will not disappoint after dinner and as a sprout on this colorful family tree I have tried my hand many times at apple pie. Usually I end up with something successful but not quite as perfect as her recipe.

This year after apple picking I decided to try to find a dutch apple pie recipe for many reasons including this lady is on a budget as well as scared of messing up pie crust. I bought a refrigerated pie crust in a pan and got to work on crumble topping….yes, frugal I be, until it’s not necessar-yyy. As health conscious as I try to be, “crumble topping”, no matter what it is topping, always catches my eye and the recipe I tried created a mountain of said crumble goodness. Snobby is not quite how I would describe myself, but about certain things, particular. When I try recipes I usually shy away from overly commercial recipes, but this recipe I confess I got from Betty Crocker’s website and it was pretty well, awesome. There’s nothing wrong with likely time tested recipes, even if they have been branded; I myself love some green bean casserole and nothing compares in this recipe to French’s onions…

Yes, I know often in this blog I write about timely recipes I have the luxury to spend time cooking, and I also know many people, especially for people with the pleasure and pain of caring for their small children, don’t have the hour to peel apples or painstakingly decorate cookies. I write about these recipes now because I have the time today and probably won’t soon. Often committing to recipes which seem timely and involved when you have very little time seems like your own culinary crap shoot and sometimes I am candid in this site so people reading its recipes know if they’re trying recipes which make them say “This seems like an awfully big commitment”, their time is going to be well spent.