The Baker

So this weekend, I decided to have one big cooking day. Not only did I make myself chicken, broccoli, and angel hair stir fry with Soyaki (easily the best sauce ever invented - Thanks Tracy - sold at Trader Joes), but I baked an apple crisp, some brownies, apple bread, and I also made homemade apple cider.

Although, to be fair, the apple bread was an apple muffin recipe that I had to finagle. The cooking times and temperatures were a bit varied, so I'm not sure exactly how I did it, but I'll have to try again and make that alteration.

And the cider, well, it wasn't really that I made cider. Nor did I really make anything like it at all. But I had a whole bunch of apple peels left after the crisp and the bread, and I didn't just want to throw them out. So I boiled them in water with cinnamon (is adding cinnamon to boiling water ok?) and then poured out the liquid after 30 minutes or so to make a sort of apple tea. Seeing as how I didn't measure the liquid to the peels, it was kind of watered down, but it did leave that nice brown speckled trail in the glass when I took the last sip.

It's delicious having stores of food around the apartment, although I think it undoes all the running I do with the basketball team every day. Oh well. If anyone has a good cider or apple bread recipe, please do send it along.