First, cut 1/2 cup of butter into 1 1/2 cups of flour (you have to use real butter). When the mixture looks like coarse crumbs, add 1/4 cup of cold water. Form this into a ball, and roll it out, turning 1/4 turn after each pass with the rolling pin. When it's big enough, transfer to a pie dish and fancy up the edges. You can use a fork if you don't want to crimp them up like the photo.
Next, peel, core and slice five Granny Smith apples. I like to overfill the pie. Five apples will cause some oven spill-over, but if you put the pie on a foil-lined cookie sheet, it will catch them. It's totally worth it. I only use Granny Smiths because they are awesome and make other apples look like chumps. In the same bowl you used for the pie dough, mix together 1 cup of sugar, 4 tablespoons of flour and about 2 teaspoons of cinnamon (I don't measure the cinnamon). Some people like to add nutmeg, but I don't like nutmeg, so it doesn't go in my pie. Mix this up really well. This will make a nice, thick apple-pie gravy, instead of a watery mess when it's baked. Put this mixture over your apples, mix them up, and then put them into the pie crust.
For the top, instead of a traditional crust, I like to make a crumb, strudel-like topping with pecans. I mix 1/2 cup of brown sugar with 1/2 cup of flour and then blend in 4 tablespoons of butter with my fingers. When it's sufficiently blended, mix in about 1/2 cup of chopped pecans. Sprinkle this evenly over the pie top. If you want a traditional crust, double the pie dough recipe and divide it in two.
This is so fucked up and awesome. We love this one. Right now, we have a few bags in the works that may or may not get us kicked off of Etsy. Usually, when the ideas make us laugh so hard we can't breathe, we know we have to make them.
Randi made this little gem. It's inspired by the Super Mario world, and the pockets on the front are seriously groundbreaking. She's all up in your ass with this one. Check our Flickr for more photographs.
Randi made this. It's a cat belly. It's also a purse. The teats, or nipples, are made from pink Ultrasuede. It's a little obscene and very funny. She had the idea to make something like this with three nipples and call it "White Trash Third Nipple". It seems like we have a lot of white-trash friends who have third nipples. I don't know what that's about.
This purse was a custom order. I love the way it turned out. I have another purse cut out and started, as well as a couple throw pillows. I might keep them all, I don't know.
