Sweet, Sticky, and Fun

I know they look a little messy but they tasted great!!!!

Last weekend I went apple picking upstate with my family and my aunts ands cousins. We went to Apple Hill Farm, an apple picking place. We all got a huge bag of every kind of apple like Fuji, Red Delicious, Jonagold, Granny Smith and more.

I decided to make carmel apples, and my sister Kali made apple crumble. I bought a mix to use; the brand is: Concord Foods. Here's how to make them:

1. Put the carmel mix stuff in a small pot with milk.

2. Then add sugar and stir constantly.

3. Turn down the fire and keep stirring.

4. When it gets thickish, let it cool for 10 minutes.

5. Shove the stick into the apples then dip.

6. Put them on wax paper on a cookie sheet in the fridge to cool.

7. Eat them!

We had a dinner party and the kids ate the apples, while the grown-ups had my sister's crumble. I ate one and a half carmel apples. Mine were so good I could live off that.

First-Class Cooking Class!

Each week I go to an all-vegetarian after school class at Brooklyn Prospect Charter, where I go. It's run by a company called Butter Beans. We make cool things like pizza and three-bean salads. Last week we made pizza with chopped tomato and cheese. We also put a little basil to make it good. We got our own dough already made. It was a mix of whole wheat flour and white flour. This is the order we did it in:

1. We learned about tomatoes.
2. We cut the tops off of the tomatoes and put them in hot water for 2 minutes to peel off the skin easier.
3. After, we put them in cold water to cool them.
4. Then we peeled them and chopped them small.
5. We chopped up lots of mozzarella cheese and put it aside.
6. We kneaded the dough for a few minutes; we pushed it with our palm to flatten it. We placed it on a cookie sheet.
7. We added the tomatoes and cheese sprinkled cheese on!
8. Finally it was time to put the pizzas in the oven.
9. And then........

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9. We ate it all up. It was so good I could explode of happiness. I really like home-made pizza and I also like cheese.

The class was really fun and I think we are making pudding this week.