A Few of My Favorite Things...

After spending a few tedious hours at the mall trying to get Jason's new cell phone synched and negotiated and gobbling down a plate of greasy food at the Magic Wok, we found ourselves in the unusual condition of craving apples. I'm not sure how it started - one of us mentioned apple picking season being over or something, and suddenly we really wanted apples. So we stopped at the store on the way home and loaded up. The next morning, I found myself in a morning after crisis of the impulse shopped - wondering what I was going to do with all these apples! So, for the last two days, we've been snacking on apples, eating them with chutney at lunch, and cooking up apple-filled crepes in the morning. I have to say that the apple crepes are my favorite - especially with a tart apple like the Pink Lady in contrast to sweet maple syrup drizzled over the top.

We have a stack of apple cores this week, which left me thinking about a funny childhood memory of a Donald Duck animated short by Disney featuring Chip and Dale, the curiously frustrating chipmunks. They prank Donald with the children's game "Apple Core," which goes: "Apple Core..." "Baltimore..." "Who's your friend..." It used to delight us when Donald screeched ME! and landed a wet apple core right in the face as the critters scampered back up the inside of the tree trunk, eluding him. If you haven't seen this cartoon, check it out on YouTube. While we're at it, here's another memoriable Chip and Dale episode; amazing how vicious some of those old cartoons were... but still funny after all these years!