Happy Thanksgiving!

This year was my first Thanksgiving away from my family in 22 years! So yeah my whole life. It was weird being away from all my siblings and away from my mom's yummy cooking! But thanks to my mom and Jared's mom we put together some family recipes to keep up the traditions. I cooked it all! It was a lot of food for just the two of us but we wanted to make it as traditional as possible. And nothing went wrong! I was so stressed the whole week that I would burn the turkey or something terrible, but everything went perfectly! I am pretty proud of myself actually! Here is a picture!
Lots of leftovers, YUM!

Jared's favorite dessert is apple pie, so i attempted my first homemade pie! It was AMAZING and pretty easy so I thought I would share the recipe. 

Pie

1 (9 inch) deep dish pie crust

5 medium size apples - peeled, cored, sliced (3 Pink Ladies)

1/4 cup white sugar

1/4 cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

1/8 teaspoon cloves

1/8 teaspoon ginger

Lay out unbaked crust in your pie dish. Put all your apple slices in a bowl and toss them in the sugar/spice mixture util fully coated then put them in your pie crust.

Crumbs

1/3 cup white sugar

1/4 cup brown sugar

3/4 cup all-purpose flour

1 stick of butter

Cut butter into sugar and flour mixture until crumbly then spread evenly over pie. Bake at 375 for 40 minutes.

It is delicious!

Let me know what you guys think!

It was fun creating our own traditions but also carrying on a few from our own families. Since we were away for Thanksgiving, going home to California for Christmas is going to be so special!