herbed apple pie

it's snowing out AGAIN...i am so done with winter...

that said, it seemed appropriate to end my weekend with a little comfort food and a movie. so i cued up "can't hardly wait" (which i'd actually never seen before), and decided to use up some of the fresh thyme and mint that i had in my fridge.
i don't much like sweet things, so i decided to adapt an apple pie for my tastes. it's still kind of sweet, but uses honey and orange juice rather than sugar.

crust
2 cups white flour
1/2 cup wheat flour
2 sticks butter, cut up
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
ice water

mix the flour, sugar, and salt with a food processor, add the butter and pulse until the mixture is kind of crumbly. add the water, slowly, until you can make the mixture stick together. knead the dough until it forms a ball, and divide it into two discs. pop them in the fridge, wrapped in plastic, for about an hour.

filling
peel and dice some apples and mix them with lemon juice, orange juice, honey (only about a 1/4-1/3 of a cup), ginger, nutmeg, and cinnamon. let it hang out, covered, while the crust chills.

take the crusts out, let sit at room temp for about 10 minutes, then roll both out. line a pie pan with one. mix the apples with a handful of thyme and chopped mint. throw the filling in the crust and cap with the other. pinch the two crusts together and trim off the extra.
bake in an oven pre-heated to 400 degrees. when the edge of the crust starts to look brown, cover it with foil, turn down the oven to 375 and keep cooking until the rest of the top crust gets golden.


cool the pie for a while and serve with some cream (i didn't have heavy cream to whip, but that would be yummy), and maybe a little maple syrup.

notes for next time: i was a little heavy handed with the thyme. in the future, i'd be more judicious with that, and add a little more cinnamon, and maybe some cloves (which i didn't have tonight).