Bake an Apple Pie

     We all have our apple pie.  That thing that we want to do and just never attempt for one reason or another.  It might even be silly to not do the thing we want to try.  I made two babies.  I jumped out of a plane.  I grew up in the Bronx.  Yet, there are things that for one reason or another intimidate me...and they don't always make sense.  So with all of the cooking, baking and creating I have done through the years I have dodged the homemade crust and juicy filling of an apple pie.  I know a few of you are yelling, "NO WAY?!?!".  I apologize oh foodie cousin, niece and a few others. 
     Earlier this afternoon the pate brisee was made and put in the fridge to chill.  This evening the apples were sliced...the very ones that were picked last weekend in the beautiful Hudson Valley.   A pie was then assembled complete with a little apple and leaf design on top.  I am smelling it now as it bakes for the last moment or so....be right back!
     The pie is out of the oven!  It is beautiful and golden and bubbling.  I want to dig in and eat it but it is coming on midnight and it needs to cool for hours.  It will be there tomorrow waiting to say good morning as it sits on the counter.  I was even sure to get vanilla ice cream should someone want the perfect accompaniment.  The house smells divine and I wonder if we will all dream about desserts tonight.  Tonight we will dream and tomorrow we shall dine on a fresh yummy pie on a chilly fall day. 
     Do YOU have an "apple pie"? What is holding you back from doing it?  I have to tell you that I just did a little dance all by myself in the kitchen at nearly midnight.  It is always so much more than just the task...it is the success as the reward for letting go of a fear.  Fear can be tiny or huge.  What can be a regular thing to one person might be completely foreign to another...so there is no need to judge.  I am already thinking of the designs I can make in future crusts or the countless fillings that  can be used....guess it's not such a fear after all.  Poof.  This DO the NEW has done wonders!
     Face a little fear and conquer it...it will give you strength for the bigger ones.  Go find your apple pie and show it who's boss!