6 Medium Peeled, Thinly Sliced Tart Apples

This afternoon, as soon as the children were down for their afternoon naps, I decided to dive into making the apple pie I've been meaning to tackle for a week now.  I can't remember the last time I made a pie, and I have never made one without my mother helping me.  I can't even remember if I've ever rolled out and placed pie crust before!  So, this project, well it made me a little nervous, but I so want to make pies with my children for holidays or just special desserts and there is just something about making your own pie from scratch and then eating that first slice.  Complete satisfaction.  Anyway, so I tackled this today.

First, the pie crust was the most daunting part to me.  I remember that my mom hates making pie crust and it has always seemed so difficult to do correctly.  But either I made the pie crust or the pie would never get made, so I got together all the ingredients and utensils, turned on some Christmas music and set about making that crust.  It actually wasn't terrible.  I just hope that all in all it turns out okay.  When I got around to rolling it out and placing it in the dish things did get a little tricky and my pie crust is definitely not going to look pretty.

Next I had 6 medium Granny Smith apples to slice.  Here I made the rookie mistake of slicing all the apples beautifully BEFORE I peeled them.  Yes.  I forgot to peel the apples before I sliced them.  I didn't even realize I had made this mistake until I began to put them in the bowl to mix with the sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and flour.  Thankfully I only put in a few slices before realizing my mistake, but then I had to spend the next 20 minutes carefully peeling each slice.  I tried several methods, none of which was great, but I did get them all mostly peeled.  I am sure I'll never make that mistake again.

After mixing the pie filling, and rolling out the bottom pie crust I carefully put the pie together.  The pie crust did give me a little trouble, as I said above, but I figure for the first pie I've made solo it's not expected to look super pretty so I went with good enough.  Same with the top crust, it rolled out just fine, but placing it was a little harder than I expected.

It's almost done and the smell of pie baking is heavenly.  I can't wait to taste it!  If it's even somewhat delicious I'll be trying again closer to Thanksgiving, maybe even making one for after our Thanksgiving feast!  We'll see.

Tips on rolling out and making pie crust look pretty would be greatly appreciated.