Dorm Style Apple Pie

 
Last weekend was my school's fall break (a.k.a. fall day, since we only get Friday off). While most people went home over the weekend, I chose to stay on campus. Left alone on a deserted campus, a little bored and a little hungry, my dear friend and fellow RA Jordan and I decided that it would be good idea to make a pie...from scratch...in the communal hall kitchen.

As it turned out, this was actually one of our more brilliant ideas. Yes, it might have taken us a couple hours (ok, more like 3 and half....) and, yes, dorm kitchens are not really equipped to handle such culinary escapades, but all that trouble was totally worth it. Besides, nothing goes better with Star Wars than apple pie and ice cream.

To make dorm style apple pie of your very own, follow these simple steps:

1) Strategically remove apples from the cafeteria to be used in your pie.  

2) Find a friend who is naturally good at making pie crust and enlist his/her help.

3) Find another friend who has some nutmeg and barter for it with the promise of a piece of the finished pie.

4) Using an awkwardly large knife, peel, core, and slice the apples. Don't forget to panic when your pie baking buddy suddenly leaves and you think it because she just cut a finger off. (Don't worry she didn't.)

5) Forget your dorm doesn't have a rolling pin or salt and go borrow another hall's.

6) To make the filling: only use the recipe as a reference and instead follow your heart (and your stomach), combining the apple slices with a generous amount of sugar and healthy doses of cinnamon and nutmeg. Then add in a little flour because you remember that that's what you're supposed to do when you make pie filling. Be sure to taste test often.

7) Put your pie baking buddy's super power to good use and watch in amazement as she rolls out perfect pie crust.

8) Dump filling into that perfect crust. Then weave the top crust and pinch edges.

9) Remember that you forgot to put butter on top of the filling and spend the next few minutes sticking tiny bits of butter through the holes in the top of the pie.

10) Bake in the temperamental oven until the edges being to burn. (This is right about when you should be wishing you had some foil...but, since you don't, you'll just have to make do).

11) Cut pie, marvel at your success, and distribute to other RA's on duty.