I am recording this apple pie for its beauty. By my "low" standards. Usually, my dishes are not presented well or pretty. I decorated this crust with nice leaf petals this time, and they baked well. So, ta - dah! The pastry mixture is more biscuit like rather than short-crust pastry - only used 1 tbsp butter and some olive oil with an egg for about 1.5 - 2 cups of flour. So, this is the healthy part. The cubed apples (about 3 medium apples) was stewed for about 20 mins with quite a lot of cinnamon powder (2 tsp) and about 2 tbsp of sugar. So, altogether quite a "dry" crust apple pie - it will be more palatable for dessert lovers with a scoop of ice-cream. Baking in the oven at 180C. A little bit of leftover egg with water as egg wash - helped the browning. You can see this is a healthy crust by the crumbs from the knife cutting - it is a little dry because there was only about 1 tbsp butter and some olive oil used in the pastry, with an egg.
I plant edible plants in my balcony. I love to cook with some of these plants. Just a few items - ginger, mint, Okinawa spinach, di huang miao .. The day is not yet here when I can harvest lots of vegetables from this little balcony. Maybe one day. Meanwhile, here is my little journey of recipe try outs. To remind myself.