Suddenly, it smells like Fall when I open the front door each morning. The scent of crisp air, with a hint of warmth for what the day might bring. These are the days where I can quickly fall down memory lane and recall wearing a jacket to school each morning, only to shed it for lunch and the walk home (yes, I’m that old where I walked to and from school each day). Fall and apples go hand in hand (when it’s not raining pumpkin spice everything) and there’s nothing that can beat a farm fresh apple in September. Since we went apple u-picking (see more details here) I wanted a savoury way to use up more of the Honeycrisp Apples we picked. I came up with this recipe for a Pork, Apple and Ale Pie. The pie innards are full of savoury Autumn flavours – filling ground pork, slightly sweet apples, bitter ale … it’s like you take Fall and throw it into a Shake-n-Bake bag, toss it around, and then put it inside some pie crust. And the crust! Herbs and mustard are added to the crust to play off the flavours on the inside and it’s SO flaky. The crust literally crumbles as your fork hits it. The aromas that came from the oven during cooking were filled with sage, beer, and leek, almost forcing me to crack another beer, open the window to let the cool evening air in, and sit back.

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