Mathonwy's posts

Good morning, Wildfire! Good morning, everyone! I hope everyone has a wonderful day. If not, I shall be forced to play my psaltery and sing a song.

@totalanimefan: Apple is wonderful on everything! You could even put apple on pizza in lieu of pineapple, if pineapple pizza is something you like. I convinced someone to try using apple butter as a sauce instead of normal tomato pizza sauce, and she said it came out great.

This cake was from scratch, but honestly, I usually like the ones from a box more. I don't know if I'm a heathen or just bad at making the perfect cake!

Ah, my wicked plan of getting everyone excited about apples is coming into...fruition! Mwah ha ha ha!

@totalanimefan: Thank you so much for the trade! ^_^ <3

It was just a regular yellow cake, and I whipped up some vanilla frosting. I really love that plain yellow cake! I think it came out good. It was nice and moist, but maybe not the best I've made.

@count trashula: Awww, I wish I could help because I saw them in a store just the other day!

Mozzarella sticks, now that's where it's at. I used to call them "temptation sticks" with my friends because, whenever we went out to eat, we'd always say that we wouldn't get them, and then we'd always end up getting them.

Temptation sticks are just what I need tonight.

@hands off the mangos: Yeah, I understand that completely. I kind of got lucky because this was the first one I found and it's relatively active compared to the last time I tried an avatar community a couple of years back. I'm extremely online and frequently bored, so you'll probably see me posting as much as possible!

@hands off the mangos: Hi! I'm pretty good, thank you! It's nice to see some other new people around as well posting. It can be difficult sometimes to jump into everyone's conversations, so I know how it feels, but everyone here is so very nice and welcoming and friendly! =D

I see more Honeycrisp and Granny Smith fans! Those seem really popular, as well as Cripps Pink. I always say there are no bad apples, but you all have very fine taste. =D

I'm going to have a Cox's Orange Pippin and a Knobbed Russet for lunch.

@totalanimefan: Thank you very much! I think it came out pretty good! I don't usually bake cakes, but I do like to bake a lot. It's like alchemy, but with food!

I like to drink my coffee with whole milk and Splenda these days. I never used cream, but I used to use sugar until I stopped that habit. I can have it black, but I like the sweetness, and black coffee usually gives me heartburn!

I do eat some non-apple fruits, but I tend to like other Rosaceae plant fruits like strawberries, blackberries, pears, quinces, cloudberries, and rosehips (as a jam or something). I think I like pears the most besides apples. Pears are like the awkward little sisters of apples, you might say.

My favorite candy bar is Three Musketeers and I'm told this makes me strange.

My favorite pie is apple pie, of course. My recipe is fairly straightforward. Some sugar, some flour, some spice (cinnamon and nutmeg, cloves if you're daring), and a little water to mix it up into a pudding or a paste, some finely cut-up apples that are skinned, preferably a good baking apple like Rhode Island Greening, Calville blanc d'Hiver, or Reine des Reinettes, or just your standard Golden Delicious or Mutsu or Granny Smith. Best to avoid the watery varieties like Honeycrisp, I assure you! Just mix it all up and put it in your favorite pie crust recipe. I prefer butter crusts, no shortening. About forty minutes in the oven at 325 F and you have yourself the best apple pie ever.

Otherwise, I'm partial to pumpkin pie, but I've been making a sweet potato pie lately that I might like more than pumpkin pie. They're nearly the same anyway, but baking sweet potatoes is just easier than cutting up and gutting and baking sugar pumpkins. And they're available for most of the year here.