Weasel Of Doom

Faced with the “one slow cooker, two things I want to cook in it” dilemma on Thursday, I decided to be brave and attempt a none-slow-cooker apple crisp recipe. Allrecipes.com had a great one:

Ingredients

• 10 cups all-purpose apples, peeled, cored and sliced (about 10 medium-size apples)
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 cup quick-cooking oats
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup butter (a stick), room temperature

Directions

1. Place the sliced apples in a 9×13 inch pan. Mix the white sugar, 1 tablespoon flour and ground cinnamon together, and sprinkle over apples. Pour water evenly over all.
2. Combine the oats, 1 cup flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and butter together. Crumble evenly over the apple mixture.
3. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 45 minutes.

It tastes great with ice cream!

(I have made some modifications to the original recipe. It calls for 1/2 cup of water, but 1/4 seems plenty. The butter in the original is melted; I have read somewhere that room-temperature butter makes for better crumbling, so that’s what I did. Also, some reviewers suggested doubling up on the crust – I wasn’t quite so ambitious, but did add a little extra brown sugar, flour, and oats to the mix. Oh, and I have only made it with sweet apples (Empire, I believe) so far; will be interesting to tray Granny Smith ones instead.)

So… Office A receives notifications about something for Office B. Office C was supposed to add Office B to the list that gets notifications, but didn’t. Fast forward a few weeks. Office C receives a distraught email from Office B. Office C is contrite and fixes the problem.

BUT, while all this was going on – why haven’t Office A called Office B and said, “Hey, we keep seeing your stuff come through, and it keeps sitting there – are you getting it?” And why haven’t Office B said, “Hey, how come we have not received any notifications for weeks now?”

It’s like Office C dropped the ball, and Offices A and B are standing around watching the ball and waiting for it to explode instead of, you know, actually picking up the ball and throwing it back to Office C. *sigh*

I won a copy of Robin McKinley’s new book, “Pegasus,” from LibraryThing’s Early Reviewer Program.

**Happy Dance**

[from a conversation with a work friend]

“it would have been a good thing for you to go to.. it’s all ad hoc, poorly planned, fly by the seat of your pants event”