Addiction & Apple Crisp

When we got married, I knew little about Ryan's addiction. Now that we are married, I've found much more out. It is an awful thing, addiction. It can tear families apart. If I am being really honest, Ryan's addiction has already started fights.

Now before you start judging me, I don't believe in airing all of our dirty laundry in public. I did, however, say that I was going to blog about all of the trials, tribulations, and triumphs in our new marriage! So, being the good wife that I am, I got my husbands permission to air this dirty laundry. I think it may even be therapeutic for us!

Ok, I don't think I'm quite ready to tell you what it is. I mean, why start another argument right now? 

First, let me tell you about this amazing apple crisp that I made today! I went looking for apple crisp recipe's because Ryan and I went with our friends, the Olsen's and the Okland's, to pick apples this weekend! What a blast!! ALSO what a bunch of apples!! 

Tessa- pickin apples! 

Tess and Paul, reaching for the tall ones!

So I went in search of a good recipe. Not wanting to peruse the internet, I went straight to a couple of cookbooks that I had on my counter. The first cookbook is from a church back home, that happens to have a TON of recipes of my mom's in it. I didn't find an apple crisp recipe from my mom :(. The second cookbook was given to me by my mother-in-law. Actually, when she gave it to me, she kind of giggled. She's a happy person, I don't know why she is giggling? Well, you see, as I was looking through this and that (canning/freezing recipes) there were a TON of recipes from my mother-in-law. WHAT? I didn't know she knew how to can things. I need to get Beckeroo to my house more often! So- I continue to peruse this cookbook, turns out it is schmuck full of her recipes! No wonder she was giggling! She just gave me the key to her Son's heart! I can make her recipes and he will never know why they taste so much like his mom's cookin'! FANTASTIC!

Anyway, Bec had an apple crisp recipe in there, and since it's in a published cookbook, I decided I could share it with you and it wouldn't be sharing any of the Ranschau "secret" recipes.

Becky Ranschau's Apple Crisp * SUPER DELICIOUS

Apple Slices

1 c. sugar

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 c. brown sugar

1 c. flour

1/2 c. butter

1/2 c. nuts

Spray and butter a 9x13 pan. Peel and slice the apples and put them in the pan. Add sugar and cinnamon on top of apples. Mix following until crumbly: brown sugar, flour, butter and nuts. Sprinkle on apples. Bake 1 hour @ 325 Degrees.

Serve warm with ice cream!

*** Lindsay Note: I added oatmeal instead of nuts because I didn't have any nuts but I still wanted some sort of crunch! 

I didn't get a picture before Ryan and I demolished half of it! 

Which takes me back to the whole reason we are here. Ryan's Addiction. It's not a drug or anything like that. It is... this...

That's right, you saw it here first! ICE CREAM! Honestly, I sincerely think that it is an addiction! I can't keep ice cream in the freezer for very many days. That is, unless I deem it mine and threaten him if he touches it! Honestly, one time I thought, oh, Harley chewed up one of our gallon buckets I should go get some ice cream and we can have another one in a few months. I had another ice cream bucket in 4 days. NO! I'm not kidding! He sees ice cream and he eats it! If I don't buy it from the store, he goes and gets it from Milkyway or Dairy Queen. When he goes out to Milkyway or Dairy Queen he drags me with him. And then I gain weight. So I have decided to just buy it for him and don't expect it to last for very many days. Because it won't. I also consider it a victory when I get to take the last ice cream out of the bottom of the box.