Food for the Soul: Easy Apple Pie Recipe

Apple pie.This dessert is an absolute favorite for those rainy evenings when you want to enjoy a dessert and tea at home, while watching your favorite television show. You can have it hot or cold, and both ways it is delicious! A crossover between a pie and a cake, it is crumbly and moist at the same time.

What you need:
1 egg beaten
1 tablespoon vanilla essence
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 cup all purpose flour
1 pinch of salt
1/2 cup melted butter or vegetable oil
1/2 cup semolina
1 teaspoon milk(optional)
2 apples peeled & chopped into small squares
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
1 handful of raisins
1 handful of cashew nuts

Mix the dry ingredients (flour, semolina, baking powder, salt and cinnamon) in a bowl.
In another bowl mix the beaten egg, vanilla, sugar, and apple and butter.
Add the flour mixture to the egg & apple mix. Stir to a very thick batter. If it is really thick add a teaspoon of mil to bring it to a runny dough consistency. Note: the cake mix should be of an almost dough like consistency, and unlike cakes, should not be batter like.
Pour the dough into a cake tin, and sprinkle with raisins and cashew nuts.
Bake at 175 C for 35 to 40 minutes.

Start Cooking

As a kid , I absolutely detested the idea of cooking. Looking at my mother constantly juggling between her job and cooking, first breakfast and our lunch and then dinner, and all those homemade snacks, jams and pickles, I used to say to myself, when I grow up, the first thing I am going to do is get a job and pay for a butler to cook for me. I felt a lot of pity for my mom toiling through the day unnecessarily.A lot of the times, my mom asked me to help out, but I always refused, as I thought it was so boring to make that dough, or chop those vegetables. Ughh! what a yucky time pass. I grew up, a dreamy little teenager, mostly submerged in fiction books or chatting with friends, and absolutely loathed home food. I preferred gorging on junk food, at the slightest given opportunity. And once in a while, when mom requested me to make a cup of tea for her, I just refused to cooperate. To this day I hate making tea. But surprisingly I do love to cook now, and enjoy every moment of it. It all started with my travel to foreign locations for my first job. It was Belgium, and I loved the place, the people. But very soon I got bored of the food in the restaurants, and the takeaways, and started craving for home food. Food that my mom cooked every day, and food that I used to loathe eating as a teenager. I called up mom, and asked her for a few recipes, that she recited to me over the phone and I jotted them down. I cooked my first fish curry on a Sunday that week, and it turned out so delicious, that I invited my Belgian girlfriend to join me for dinner. And she loved it too. And so started my love for cooking.The confidence that I could cook, with the additional bonus that I loved the food I cooked, and was specially overjoyed when someone else loved it too, overhauled me into the long journey of cooking which I enjoy to this day. The abundance of creativity that you can add to known and unknown recipes coupled with the fact that almost every time you try and cook something new, you learn something new is a joy for a lifetime. And I would definitely suggest everyone and anyone, to try to cook. It is an easy and forgiving pastime, and it gives you the opportunity to impress. What more, it uplifts your taste buds, and helps you know and accept food in all its multitude.

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